Controversial aviation newcomer Airtime Airlines has been ordered by the Air Services Licensing Council (ASLC) to shut down its airport offices immediately. Controversial aviation newcomer Airtime Airlines has been ordered by the Air Services Licensing Council (ASLC) to shut down its airport offices immediately.This comes after the company failed to secure either a licence to operate or aircraft to carry its passengers. It followed weeks of delay and speculation while the company continued to sell seats through its novel system of using airtime minutes in exchange for domestic flights.Airtime Airlines CEO and former pilot Koomaresen Eargambram has blamed the debacle on AirQuarius, a Lanseria-based company that was supposed to have leased aircraft to Airtime. "We had an agreement with AirQuarius to operate under its licence, and therefore did not need our own licence to fly passengers," he says. "All our booked passengers were to have flown on an AirQuarius flight, which...
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