| | |  Travel & Outdoors | June 2009 
Aviacsa Again Resumes Flights Across Mexico
 Associated Press
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June 14, 2009
Mexico City - Mexico's Aviacsa airline resumed service Friday after winning a court ruling overturning a government order grounding its planes for the second time over safety concerns.
The airline began flying 19 planes at 10:20 a.m. Friday, said Aviacsa Planning Director Manuel Cung.
The Transportation and Communications Department first grounded Aviacsa's planes last week, after officials reported irregularities in the maintenance of 25 planes. Aviacsa resumed flights four days later after a judge overturned the government's order.
On Thursday, the government re-grounded the airline after a federal appeals court reinstated the order, but Cung said it won another court order that same day allowing flights to resume once more.
The airline, which has a fleet of 26 planes serving 17 Mexican cities and Las Vegas, says problems raised by the government are all cosmetic - opaque logos, dull lights and scratches on the wings - and that they had already been corrected on five of the planes.
The Transportation Department said in a statement it would respect the ruling allow flights to resume but stood by its position that the planes may be unsafe.
The department also said that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration had banned Aviacsa flights to the United States until further notice, but FAA spokesman Les Dorr said he could not confirm that Friday night. |
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