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Jan 06, 2011 (newstodate): By the end of 2010, the Danish ACMI and capacity provider DAT placed one ATR passenger aircraft at Albert, in Northern France, alongside its two ATR cargo aircraft. But in both cases it proved to be only a French visit..
The two freighters were immediately off for a long series of ad-hoc operations across Europe, and the passenger aircraft soon departed as well.
-The aircraft and its crew left Albert on December 31, 2010, and is now based at Aturau, in Kazakhstan, on a contract from January 1, 2011, with the Kazakh carrier Prime Aviation that serves customers in the region's oil drilling industry, says Torben Ravnkilde, DAT VP Sales.
-A special feature in this operation is that the aircraft in on Lithuanian registry with our subsidiary DOT, and the crew is Lithuanian/Russian speaking which is a perfect match with the Kazakh environment that is also Russian-speaking.
-This also facilitated a smooth handling of all paper-work pertaining to setting up this operations within a very narrow time-frame.
-By coincidence, on the very day that this ATR aircraft landed at Aturau Airport, another DAT ATR-42-500 aircraft returning from a year's operation with Bhutan's Druk Air also landed at Aturau Airport for re-fuelling on its flight back to our home base, says Mr Ravnkilde.
The two freighters were immediately off for a long series of ad-hoc operations across Europe, and the passenger aircraft soon departed as well.
-The aircraft and its crew left Albert on December 31, 2010, and is now based at Aturau, in Kazakhstan, on a contract from January 1, 2011, with the Kazakh carrier Prime Aviation that serves customers in the region's oil drilling industry, says Torben Ravnkilde, DAT VP Sales.
-A special feature in this operation is that the aircraft in on Lithuanian registry with our subsidiary DOT, and the crew is Lithuanian/Russian speaking which is a perfect match with the Kazakh environment that is also Russian-speaking.
-This also facilitated a smooth handling of all paper-work pertaining to setting up this operations within a very narrow time-frame.
-By coincidence, on the very day that this ATR aircraft landed at Aturau Airport, another DAT ATR-42-500 aircraft returning from a year's operation with Bhutan's Druk Air also landed at Aturau Airport for re-fuelling on its flight back to our home base, says Mr Ravnkilde.