According to the North American corporation’s claim, the air carrier’s debt amounts to more than 17 million for the lease of the four passenger airplanes since 2019, for which it claimed their return last Sunday.

Last August 8, Bolivia’s Minister of Public Works, Édgar Montaño, assured that the cancellation of registration of four Amaszonas aircraft was carried out in compliance with national and international laws.

In a press conference, Montaño referred to the measure taken by the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC), which, however, does not prevent the company from operating with other aircrafts.

The text reiterates that, however, ‘this provision does not limit that Amaszonas can operate with other aircraft, because they have the Air Operator Certificate and Air Operation Permit valid until December 2024’, clarified the DGAC.

However, this Tuesday, after more than seven hours of hearing, the Third Constitutional Court of La Paz granted the tutelage to the Amaszonas airline and ordered that within 24 hours the registration plates of the four aircrafts be reinstated.

The jurisdictional authority established that the DGAC only oversees and supervises the operational safety of aircraft and cannot intervene in a problem between private parties.

In his intervention on August 8, Montaño clarified that the Bolivian Government has nothing to do with these issues between private parties, but it does have to act because it is a signatory of agreements such as the Chicago Convention with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), mainly in relation to international air navigation.

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