AvMan Adds Air Safety Specialists in Peru, Uruguay to Assist Latin Nations' Compliance With ICAO Standards.Business Editors MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2001 Aviation Management Services (AvMan) of Miami, one of the nation's leading aviation consultancies specializing in Latin American and Caribbean issues, has appointed two highly qualified and respected air safety specialists as on-site Senior Safety Oversight Consultants in South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. to heighten the firm's ability to assist Latin countries improve their aviation regulatory infrastructure and enhance air safety in the region. Victor Jaime Manrique Jaime Manrique (16 June, 1949 - ) is a gay, Colombian-American author, poet, and journalist. Background Manrique was born in Barranquilla, Colombia and earned a B.A. from the University of South Florida. , former Director of Civil Aviation in Peru and a pilot with over 10,500 flight hours, is based in Lima, and Jorge Delgado is based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Both will travel throughout the region on their assignments for AvMan. John D. MacDonald John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 – December 28, 1986), writing as John D. MacDonald, was an American writer best known for his series of detective novels featuring protagonist Travis McGee. , Chief Executive Officer of AvMan, said the appointments of Manrique and Delgado are "part and parcel of our program to expand our field system to expedite assistance to the now 15 Latin American and Caribbean nations which need to bring their civil aviation regulations and oversight programs into compliance with the International Civil Aviation Organization's worldwide safety standards Safety standards are standards designed to ensure the safety of products, activities or processes, etc. They may be advisory or compulsory and are normally laid down by an advisory or regulatory body that may be either voluntary or statutory. ." MacDonald noted that the countries' failure to comply with those standards has caused the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control to assign a Category 2 (Unsatisfactory) rating to the countries involved, thus severely restricting the airlines of those nations due to limitations or even bans on flights to and from U.S. cities. "Most Latin American airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the are the equals of, or even superior to, U.S. and other leading world airlines when it comes to their maintenance, operational and safety standards," MacDonald said, "but the mere fact that their home countries' regulatory and oversight systems Oversight Systems is a US company, founded in late 2003, which develops and sell computer software that helps businesses continually check for inside fraud, errors and other problems. are not in compliance with the accepted world standards places onerous and unfair restrictions on the airlines' ability to serve points in the U.S., by far the most important air market to all of Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. ." With the addition of Manrique and Delgado in strategic South American cities, and with Hernando Vazquez in company headquarters in Miami, "AvMan now has a complete team of qualified and competent safety specialists that will permit us to react quickly to any need countries throughout the region have as they seek to upgrade their air safety programs," MacDonald said. Manrique may be contacted through his office at (511) 372-2451 in Lima, and Delgado at (5982) 6289248 in Montevideo. AvMan headquarters is at 1600 NW LeJeune Road, Suite 300, in Miami, (305) 876-9339, e-mail Mail@avman.com. |
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