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April 23, 2025

CORRUPTION AND SHAME: KENYA ASSOCIATION OF AIR OPERATORS AND CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY PROTECT NOTORIOUS CROOKS

Stories about how scammers, having earned money by deceiving counterparties, invest part of the loot in raising their status are not uncommon. The calculation is quite simple: firstly, they need to whitewash their reputation. Secondly, the new status allows them to penetrate the circle of fatter wallets, which means they can rob at a new, higher level. So such investments are usually justified and there is nothing surprising here.

April 15, 2025

FLY DUBAI COVERS A SCAMMER FROM PANORAMA AIRWAYS?

The problems of Panorama Airways (Uzbekistan) began almost from the very beginning. In fact, it was a financial pyramid - tickets were sold at a loss, the company existed at the expense of loans from suppliers of fuel, ground handling and catering services. This could not work for so long and one fine day the pyramid collapsed in the most catastrophic way - the airline was unable to take back passengers who flew in January 2024 for Umrah (minor Hajj) to Saudi Arabia.

April 3, 2025

HALIS DIN IS STILL IN JAIL. HE FACES 1.5 YEARS IN PRISON

A week after my post about the fact that the co-owner of MERKUR HOLDING (Turkey) Halis Din should be released from prison, he is still behind bars. What is the reason?

March 20, 2025

ELI LANCE – ELIJAH NERI - HAKAN BOZAN IS LAUGHING AT LAS VEGAS POLICE

What is the fate of one of the heroes of the articles in BLACKLIST.AERO, who pocketed the money for aircraft parts and disappeared. I will tell you about this in the new “report from Las Vegas” - a city in which you can become a millionaire almost instantly, and spend your millions in a matter of hours. A city in which the police, apparently, are already so tired of all sorts of crooks and adventurers that they are ready to react to anything only if they are brought a swindler, already handcuffed and with twenty boxes of evidence for the district attorney.

March 14, 2025

KARMA IN ACTION: HALIS DIN ARRESTED

As I have just informed, MERKUR HOLDING co-owner Halis Din was arrested yesterday at his home. Halis was sent to prison after a court hearing.

March 11, 2025

WATCH OUT! MEDITERRANEAN AIRCRAFT SUPPORT (MALTA) – NEW SCAM COMPANY BY HANS VERBIST

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February 20, 2025

MERKUR HOLDING LAYS OFF 70% OF STAFF UNTIL NEXT FEBRUARY 

MERKUR HOLDING (Turkey) intends to lay off 70% of its staff within the next year. And by October 2026, less than a quarter of the current staff will remain in the company. Co-owner of Merkur Holding Halis Din stated this in an “exclusive comment to BLACKLIST.AERO”.

February 18, 2025

THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL CONFIRMED BLACKLIST.AERO FACTS ABOUT HARMONY JETS ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES

I am always very calm when someone expresses disbelief in the facts presented by me in my articles on BLACKLIST.AERO. Why? Because the usual fact-checking and subsequent development of events always proves the accuracy of the facts I have presented. In which it’s so nice to poke “non-believers” noses later ;)

February 14, 2025

BLACKLIST.AERO – 3 YEARS! GET READY: THE MAIN BATTLE IS JUST BEGINNING

Is three years for the company too much or too little? According to the standards of human life, BLACKLIST.AERO is still in the nursery group of the kindergarten: there are many things you don’t know and can’t do. Everything has to be learned as you grow up.

January 31, 2025

IT'S MAGIC! BLACKLIST.AERO BROUGHT KARIM STAMBOULI BACK TO EXPRESS AIR CARGO!

Just yesterday Karim Stambouli, right after publishing an article about the critical situation at Express Air Cargo, wrote to me (after three months of ignoring my attempts to contact him) in WhatsApp: ‘I'm not Express Air Cargo any more’. And started threatening me. First with the court, then with the police. When I told Karim that I would be ready to answer for EVERY WORD written in my article and he could go complain anywhere and to anyone Karim decided to resort to the last ‘argument’: he started to threaten me with... Halis Din 😂 😂 😂

January 30, 2025

EXPRESS AIR CARGO IS DROWNING, MANAGEMENT HAS RAN AWAY AND “LOOKING FOR NEW CHALLENGES”

There have been cases related EXPRESS AIR CARGO (Tunisia) before. But the company tried to close them before they were published in the BLACKLIST.AERO to avoid publicity. However, time passed, new cases began to appear, and the company simply lost the ability to cope with the growing debt burden.

January 14, 2025

AIRACER CASE: CANCELLATION FEE MUST BE PAID

Problem of non-payment the cancellation fee by charter brokers in the event of a flight being cancelled due to a passenger’s reason has become one of the most discussed issues among operators in recent years. For operators, this is not only lost profits due to the aircraft’s forced downtime, but also often technical and even legal problems when carrying out a subsequent flight. For example, in a number of countries, fuel poured into an aircraft and cleared through customs for an international flight may become the cause for claims from customs authorities in the event of a subsequent domestic flight instead of an international one.

December 19, 2024

YOU SHOULD STAND BY YOUR WORDS: MEBAA-2025 RESULTS FROM BLACKLIST.AERO 

“What are you doing?! We all spent tens of thousands of dollars to attract attention to our companies at the exhibition, and you just by making one post on LinkedIn turn all the attention to yourself and these crooks whom you challenged to a battle! Now everyone is whispering only about it! Everyone has forgotten about the exhibition!”

December 13, 2024

MIRACLES HAPPEN AT MEBAA TOO!

This corporate conflict could have turned into a real war. Both sides appealed to BLACKLIST.AERO However, based on the circumstances of the conflict, we could not support either side.

December 3, 2024

THE DEEPFAKE ERA HAS COME FOR BLACKLIST.AERO! WE TELL YOU WHO, HOW AND WHY

Three months ago, I told a story about how fraudsters created a fake BLACKLIST.AERO page on X (former Twitter) with the goal of publishing any nonsense on it just to discredit our reputation. I laughed at this “innocent” idea and said that we need to prepare for much bigger provocations, using deepfake technology. And I was right!

November 26, 2024

UNITED AVIATION GROUP OWNER JONATHAN WOLPE HAS BEEN ARRESTED

The owner of UNITED AVIATION GROUP (South Africa) Jonathan Wolpe was arrested today in Johannesburg, as the editors of the Global Aviation Register of Defaulter companies BLACKLIST.AERO have just learnt.

November 21, 2024

New Three Cases Defaulter: GT AirParts LLC

One more Three Cases Defaulter has been added to the Global Aviation Register of Defaulter companies BLACKLIST.AERO. Three cases from different claimants have been submitted and published in relation to GT AirParts LLC from the USA.

November 12, 2024

iFUEL FALSIFIED PHOTOS WITH COMPANY LOGOS ON FUEL TRUCKS. IN FACT, THE COMPANY IS ONLY A RESELLER

As the administration of the Global Aviation Register of Defaulter companies BLACKLIST.AERO found out, the company iFUEL AG falsified numerous photos of fuel trucks and other airfield equipment with IFuel logos for use in advertising campaigns.

November 7, 2024

HEY HARMONY JETS, DO I HAVE TO COME TO MALTA AGAIN? SET THE DATE!

Yesterday, HARMONY JETS put out an official letter to their counterparties, in which they tried to at least somehow fend off my article published two weeks ago. As you remember, I flew to Malta in order to clarify the facts that shed light on why HARMONY JETS flights can be cancelled at any time. And therefore, the company developed a special scheme that allows them not give back the money paid for the flight to clients.

October 29, 2024

MERKUR – THE NEW THREE CASES DEFAULTER. IT’S TIME FOR HALIS DIN TO GO

There is a certain wicked irony in the fact that a company that signed the Three Cases Declaration two years ago and committed itself to fight systemic defaulters has itself become a Three Cases Defaulter. But if the signing of this Declaration was originally an attempt to avoid the pressure of the BLACKLIST.AERO administration on its own debts, then there is nothing strange about it. As I said before participation in the Three Cases Declaration is not an indulgence from non-payments.

October 17, 2024

“ROGUE KNIGHTS” FROM HARMONY JETS IN MALTA ARE ALLOWED TO DO ANYTHING???

In order to understand why companies like HARMONY JETS can do what they do with impunity, I had to fly to Malta. So to speak, “to the stomping ground” of these crooks. Only on the spot was it possible to find out who was covering them - by their active actions or deliberate non-interference. And at the same time to understand why HARMONY JETS flights are cancelled, and their aircraft remain on the ramp.

October 10, 2024

HEY RINAD, HAVE YOU DECIDED TO DEBATE PUBLICLY?! SO COME ON!

The PR activity of the defendants in the cases in the BLACKLIST.AERO Registry is always a subject of our intense interest. After all, instead of paying off their debts, they spend a lot of money on creating a public image of honest and successful businessmen. Which they are absolutely not.

August 31, 2024

PRIVATE JET CHARTER IS A FRAUDULENT COMPANY: FACTS 

As it often happens after our first publications about a defaulter, more and more details, new cases, new evidence begin to appear. This is what happened with the PRIVATE JET CHARTER LIMITED (UK) case, the article about which caused a real stir. The information received and new cases leave no doubt to the BLACKLIST.AERO editorial team: the non-payments of this company are not accidents, but episodes of an openly fraudulent scheme. These are not tricks, not traps - this is a criminal offense in its purest form.

August 20, 2024

WYVERN TO BE SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF CREDITORS OF ABDULLAH AL-SAYED: NO MORE RUNNING???

The editors of BLACKLIST.AERO found out from several sources that Saudi Arabian officials responsible for managing the bankruptcy procedure of NEXUS FLIGHT OPERATION SERVICES (Saudi Arabia) are taking legal steps to take control and subsequently sell the US company WYVERN, which is engaged in the certification of business aviation operators.

August 6, 2024

PRIVATE JET CHARTER: 30 YEARS IN BUSINESS AVIATION ARE THROWN INTO THE TRASH?

The brokerage company Private Jet Charter (United Kingdom) concluded a charter agreement with a private client and accepted payment from him. Two days before the flight, the broker confessed to the client that the money for the charter had not been transferred to the operator. And asked his client to pay again directly to the operator, otherwise the flight would not operate.

July 6, 2024

MAKERS OF SOAP BUBBLES ARE ALWAYS SIMILAR. RINAD EL-RABAA, JONATHAN WOLPE. CONTINUATION... 

In order to create a soap bubble, under which gullible investors will be willing to invest their money, it is important to constantly create the appearance of success and profitability. Actually, it is called a soap bubble precisely because it is a form without real content. What is “seems” but not “is” in reality.

July 6, 2024

WARNING: DEFAULTER JETLUX LTD (UK) ATTEMPTS TO RETURN TO THE AVIATION MARKET AS A CHARTER BROKER

To the attention of European operators and charter brokers: the UK registered company JETLUX LTD, which in the recent past was just a firm - a pad for the Ukrainian flight support company SKY HANDLING, has launched the site https://jetlux.com/. The site is a usual interface for ordering a charter flight. Nothing unusual, an ordinary business card site. Except for a couple of things...

June 25, 2024

HARMONY JETS CASE: ATTENTION! BE CAREFUL WITH THEIR CHARTER AGREEMENT!

I have long heard from various sources the statements like: “The HARMONY JETS operator has the game rigged. They are fraudsters. Pay attention to them!” However, we at BLACKLIST.AERO take seriously only two types of information: firstly, cases from our claimants officially registered in the Registry. Because, according to the Claimant agreement they sign, they bear full legal responsibility for the truthfulness of all the information contained in the case. The second type of information is that which is personally received by the Registry administration and editors during subsequent proceedings.

June 4, 2024

STAR JETS INTERNATIONAL'S CASE: THE SOAP BUBBLE BEGINS TO BURST

Case regarding STAR JETS INTERNATIONAL Inc. (USA) became not just a wake-up call, but a real ALARM signal. Because the information has attracted the attention of large private investors who invested money in the company through the stock exchange. It quickly turned out that Ricky Sitomer had been making a fool of everyone for a long time.

June 4, 2024

EBACE IS DYING, IT’S A FACT. EBAA MANAGEMENT “WAS KNOCKED DOWN”

Gone are the days when, walking into a Learjet 60 at a static exhibition display, you could meet the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine looking for an aircraft for a fashionable retirement. And the only thought that came to your mind at that moment: “Hm, isn’t he too modest? Others choose more expensive aircraft.” Artem Degtiarov, Chief editor at BLACKLIST.AERO

May 22, 2024

BLACKLIST.AERO LAUNCHES ...WHITELIST.AERO!

Admit it honestly, the first thing you thought was: “Well, now everything is clear! BLACKLIST.AERO has been talking about “bad” companies for a long time, and now they will talk about “good” ones and charge money for it!”

May 17, 2024

TO BLACKLIST.AERO FOLLOWERS: DO NOT BE UPSET ABOUT PROVOCATIONS ADDRESSED TO US. THERE EVEN COULD BE MORE!

As you know, we at BLACKLIST.AERO are very calm about all sorts of anonymous (or under fake names of so-called “authors”) publications about what kind of “pro-Russian blackmailers and extortionists” we are. Our position is very simple: “Be as mad as you wish, even call us satraps! But your debts will have to be repaid!”

May 9, 2024

GEORGIAN AIRLINES: BUSINESS WITH “QURDULI MENTALITETI” 

This story fully reflects the state of affairs and methods of doing business in modern Georgia. The country, which in words strives to join the European Union, in reality cultivates the linear gangster practices that were common in the countries of the former Soviet Union in the 90s of the past century.

May 2, 2024

MYWAY OPERATES “UNTIL COURT”  

Many believe that the problems of the Georgian airline MYWAY began with the attack on Khartoum airport (Sudan) in April 2023. Among the other 20 aircraft that burned down at that time was an aircraft that belonged to MYWAY. However, in fact, the company’s non-payments began long before this terrible incident. From which, by the way, the company was able to fully recover.

March 8, 2024

BLACKLIST.AERO WAS INTRODUCED AT THE PHILIPPINE CONGRESS! 

Last week, already well-known Congressman Danilo (Dan) Fernandez was forced to comment during 10 minutes, right at a meeting of the committee that he heads in the Philippine Congress, on the publications of BLACKLIST.AERO.

March 8, 2024

MERKUR’S CASES: PARTICIPATION IN THREE CASES DECLARATION IS NOT AN INDULGENCE FROM NON-PAYMENTS

I have repeatedly said about this simple truth to the co-owner of MERKUR HOLDING, Halis Din. During the time that has passed since he signed the Three Cases Declaration in December 2022, cases against MERKUR and its subsidiary company JET ASSIST have been repeatedly created in the BLACKLIST.AERO Registry.

March 3, 2024

AERO BLEU AIRWAYS: THE LAW IS NOT WRITTEN FOR CONGRESSMEN!  

In November 2023, we wrote about AERO BLEU AIRWAYS and its actual owner, Philippine Congressman Dan (Danilo) Fernandez. Let me remind you - this company has repeatedly distinguished itself by wet leasing cargo aircraft for charter programs. However, each time, the lack of professionalism of management in planning flights and basic ignorance of the laws operating in the cargo transportation market led to the fact that programs were disrupted, aircraft were idle, and AERO BLEU AIRWAYS simply refused to pay both leasing payments and the bills for previously provided handling and refueling services.

February 19, 2024

ABOUT “GOOD” AND “BAD” COMPANIES IN BLACKLIST.AERO 

Occasionally, representatives of defaulting companies ask us a question like: “How can you help a company like...” and then the name of the company that filed a case against them. “Ask others, your claimants have a very bad reputation! But we have a good reputation and don’t want the case in BLACKLIST.AERO to cast a shadow over it!”

January 16, 2024

BLACKLIST.AERO CELEBRATES FIRST TWO YEARS: WHAT WE HAVE ACHIEVED

This project was carried like a child - exactly 9 months. When I was already planning to start it, fears arose: “What if war breaks out?” At the end of January - beginning of February, the presence of more than 200 thousand Russian troopers near the borders of Ukraine had indicated that the war was absolutely real. Although only those who planned this war could believe that a big war in Europe is even possible in the 21st century. The subsequent atrocities of Russian soldiers in Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol and hundreds of other large and small cities in Ukraine showed that no achievements of mankind, no technological progress and no check and balance systems will save if mentally sick tyrants are in power.

January 16, 2024

WE ARE CHANGING THE DEFINITION OF DEFAULTER

As you know in the work of the BLACKLIST.AERO Register we were guided by a clear definition of what a "Defaulter" is. So, according to our previous rules, Defaulter: a company that has not paid an invoice after more than 90 days past the overdue date.

December 7, 2023

“NEXUS - PLEXUS”, WYVERN …AND DUBAI POLICE 

I always knew that fraudsters do not know the difference between cunning and meanness. They do not get it due to a complete lack of empathy. This is what is called a “medical fact”. Their lack of empathy helps them commit fraudulent acts without feeling any guilty conscience. “Conscience” is an absolutely unnecessary and irrational concept for them.

December 6, 2023

UMBRA, BUT NOT “THAT” UMBRA...

The behavior of the owner of UMBRA HOLDINGS LLC (USA) STEFANO LUZZI MARCONE was similar to the behavior of a player in a casino, who is constantly raising his bet. When the BLACKLIST.AERO Registry administration sent the CASE HAS BEEN CREATED notification, we immediately received a response:

November 20, 2023

MIRIAN SARISHVILI: RED INK - THING WHAT IS MISSING IN OUR LIFE! 

Mirian Sarishvili, Managing Partner at VIP AVIATION (Georgia)

November 9, 2023

AERO BLEU AIRWAYS: WHEN CROOKS GET INTO AVIATION 

This story would be difficult for the average person to believe. But aviation market professionals are forced to periodically deal with laymen who imagine themselves to be cool businessmen without having a thorough knowledge of their subject. As a result, not only they suffer losses, but also everyone who, out of stupidity or carelessness, decided to contact such idiots.

October 18, 2023

UNITED AVIATION GROUP: JONATHAN WOLPE HAS MONEY JUST FOR SHOW-OFFS

The UNITED FLIGHT SUPPORT (South Africa) case is very representative for the aviation market. It illustrates the most common behavior of debtor company owners. Their attitude towards their debts, and their main motivation in business which is just show-offs.

September 25, 2023

INVESTIGATION AGAINST ELLINAIR: NEW OWNERS ARE SUCCESSFULLY STEALING EU AID 

Not long ago, the passenger airline ELLINAIR S.A. (Greece) has announced the upcoming resumption of flights. However, the facts obtained by the editors of the BLACKLIST.AERO Register prove that all the public activity of recent weeks and news about the upcoming restart are needed to the new owners only in order to receive a new tranche of aid from the European Commission. And this tranche will be stolen in the same way as the first. ELLINAIR is not going to fly anywhere.

September 20, 2023

CASE OF JORDAN AVIATION: HOW THE TWO “USEFUL IDIOTS” COULD KILL THE REPUTATION OF A GOOD COMPANY

This story might not have happened. Nothing said that JORDAN AVIATION could allow non-payments to its counterparties. The brand of this company has long been known in the aviation market and is usually associated with reliable and high-quality service.

May 24, 2023

 “SAINT PEDRO” FROM WORLDJETS GETS READY TO ESCAPE

The WORLDJETS LTD flights cancellation scandal, which has just now spilled over into the public space, opened one of the most festering wounds of modern business aviation.

May 24, 2023

DEBT FRAUD FROM ALKAN AIR: ACTUAL TREND

Of course, the art of bargaining is an important skill in any business. However, the case of ALKAN AIR (Egypt) clearly demonstrates that some companies have elevated bargaining to a kind of cult: “What is a bazaar without bargaining?!”.

May 18, 2023

TOP – 5 DEFAULTERS IN BUSINESS AVIATION BY BLACKLIST.AERO: PERSONALITIES

Artem Degtiarov, Chief editor at BLACKLIST.AERO

May 18, 2023

SPECIAL NOTICE: BLACKLIST.AERO DOESN’T PARTICIPATE IN COMPETITIVE WARS!

After the publication of the article "NEXUS - PLEXUS, WHERE ARE YOU?" we have received a very strong positive response from participants of the aviation market. Aviation professionals began to share information with us, which further enhanced the picture of natural fraud arranged by the hero of our article.

April 24, 2023

3 TYPES OF DEFAULTERS. FIELD NOTES BY BLACKLIST.AERO

During our work with defaulters, collecting information about them and communicating with most of them personally, nolens volens, certain observations appear. We joke within a team that soon it will be possible to write a doctoral dissertation on the psychology of non-payers!

April 24, 2023

NEXUS – PLEXUS, WHERE ARE YOU?!

Artem Degtiarov, Chief editor at BLACKLIST.AERO

April 11, 2023

IS IT FAIR TO PROSECUTE OTHER COMPANIES  OF THE DEFAULTER? OUR OPINION: YES! 

We often encounter situations where a company accumulates debts and ceases its activity. But at the same time, the former owners of this company are opening under a new sign and continue the same song, only in a new way.

March 8, 2023

SUCH A SMALL BUT SUCH AN ESSENTIAL REFUND

The defaulter OMNI PRIVATE JETS ignored all attempts to resolve the issue of non-payment of the handling bill for almost a year. The company didn’t make any complaints about the bill. Didn’t try to explain why it did not pay it. They simply ignored all the requests for payment. As long as BLACKLIST. AERO Operations Team didn’t "pin down" this operator at one airport, which was served by only one handling company. We are grateful to the representatives of this company for the fact that they understood the information provided by us and refused to service the OMNI’s aircraft. That's when representatives of OMNI PRIVATE JETS immediately contacted their creditor and promised to close the debt! Which they did as a result. I just have a question for OMNI: your cheating and arrogance were worth it???

March 8, 2023

PUBLIC LETTER TO THE FOUNDER OF THE "ROTANA JET"​ COMPANY SHEIKH AHMED BIN SAIF AL-NAHYAN

Artem Degtiarov, Chief editor at BLACKLIST.AERO

March 7, 2023

AL CAPONE OF THE KAZAKH AVIATION

Colleagues, have you ever come up against real bandits in aviation? It's not like just scammers, swindlers, crooks. Specifically, with those who are called “gangsters”?

March 7, 2023

THREE CASES DECLARATION: stop-factor for defaulters and fraudsters

Global Aviation Register of Defaulter companies BLACKLIST.AERO is announcing the launch of a new initiative for the entire aviation market, regardless of companies’ size and specialization.

March 7, 2023

FRAUDSTERS FROM "AWS AVIATION PARTS" WENT ON THE RUN

The Federal Aviation Administration has officially confirmed that it is investigating the said company. This investigation was started following a preliminary FAA review initiated by the Global Aviation Register of Defaulter companies BLACKLIST.AERO.

March 7, 2023

EDITORIAL: WHY WE URGE TO STOP OPERATIONS WITH iFUEL AG.

We are fully aware that we may be accused of blackening a company that allegedly has no direct connection to a defaulter company on our register. However, this story is about why the "Spirit of the Law" is always superior than the "Letter of the Law" and why we intend to continue to bring swindlers to light, no matter what company names they hide behind.