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Feb 15, 2019 (newstodate): In its fight to regain its crucial TCO license, Turkmenistan Airlines has turned to Lufthansa Consulting for support. The carrier needs to take immediate action and has therefore decided to cooperate with the German consulting company to review the existing situation and develop a corrective action plan. The European Aviation Safety Agency EASA revoked the carrier's TCO license in earlier in February 2019, causing Turkmenistan Airlines to suspend flights on important routes into the EU including flights to Birmingham and London, to Paris, and to Frankfurt Turkmenistan Airlines claims that the source of the problem is discrepancies between US and EU requirements and standards to operate air equipment, with US standards recording the history of the aircraft from the date of the aircraft's purchase from the manufacturer, while EU rules that the aircraft's history start from the the date of completion of production at the factory. Turkmenistan Airlines operates a fleet comprising 20 Boeing aircraft including Boeing 737, 757 and 777 aircraft