RAK Airways is not expected to operate again, the director general of the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said yesterday.
“I don’t think that they are coming back,” Saif Mohammed Al Suwaidi said at the GCAA’s launch of a new strategic plan for the sector until 2016.
When asked if the airline could sell its licence or whether that was the purview of the GCAA, he replied: “I will announce something regarding that next week.”
Representatives of RAK Airways were not available for comment yesterday.
Ras Al Khaimah’s only airline suspended all its flights in December for the second time in five years.
Launched in 2006, RAK Airways stopped operations for a first time in 2009 amid a global downturn, but resumed services a year later.
Mr Al Suwaidi said he expected the aviation sector to contribute 15 per cent of the country’s total GDP by 2016, which coincides with the end of GCAA’s three-year strategic plan.
30/01/14 Shereen El Gazzar/The National
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“I don’t think that they are coming back,” Saif Mohammed Al Suwaidi said at the GCAA’s launch of a new strategic plan for the sector until 2016.
When asked if the airline could sell its licence or whether that was the purview of the GCAA, he replied: “I will announce something regarding that next week.”
Representatives of RAK Airways were not available for comment yesterday.
Ras Al Khaimah’s only airline suspended all its flights in December for the second time in five years.
Launched in 2006, RAK Airways stopped operations for a first time in 2009 amid a global downturn, but resumed services a year later.
Mr Al Suwaidi said he expected the aviation sector to contribute 15 per cent of the country’s total GDP by 2016, which coincides with the end of GCAA’s three-year strategic plan.
30/01/14 Shereen El Gazzar/The National
