UAE operator feels pressure of Antonov ban
UAE-based freighter operator British Gulf International is facing a crisis after the GCAA's banning of the Antonov An-12 from Emirati skies.
Russian-owned British Gulf’s general manger Ruslan Afaunov, was quoted in the Gulf News saying: “We just have to continue operating. [But] we have to follow the ban.”
British Gulf’s fleet is made up of six of the Soviet-era four engine turboprop An-12s with operations at Sharjah and Dubai airports. Earlier in January a British Gulf An-12 skidded off the runway at Sharjah International Airport suffering unspecified damaged in the incident.
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