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.
Such a long transition period from “Slow payer” to “Defaulter” was quite justified in 2022 when we started our operations. Aviation has just begun to recover from the long crisis associated with the Covid-19 pandemic. Most of the companies in the market were, to put it mildly, not in the best condition.
However, even then it was clear that some companies, gradually recovering from the blow to the industry were trying albeit slowly, to pay off the debts that had arisen. Others have only taken advantage of common problems to avoid financial responsibility. They just shifted their problems onto others.
Over the past two years the aviation industry has recovered sufficiently to draw some intermediate conclusions. Those who wanted to recover and have enough professionalism to do so are moving forward, no matter what. Their reputation, built up in previous years, is working now for them and bearing fruit.
The rest were divided into three groups: those who died, those who die slowly by spreading the stench of debts, and those who retrained from defaulters to professional fraudsters. It is this group that’s most dangerous for other market members. Because now they plan for non-payment as an important element of their business from the very beginning. And they know that such an important element needs to be presented to colleagues in aviation, as they say, "for dessert".
They clearly plan at what point they will stop paying. And not to everyone at the same time. At first, they stop paying those who are most patient and, in order to maintain good relations, are willing to wait longer than others. Then they stop paying those who dare to claim their right to receive their money on time, as if "offended by unprecedented impudence." "I could have paid a long time ago, but they treated us very harshly, demanding their money! So now let them wait just as long!" You've probably met with this, and more than once. In general the game of sacrifice is one of the most frequently used techniques according to our observations.
Well, at the end it's the turn of those who thought: "Well, he might not pay this or that. But he'll pay me, we're friends!" Only after the "friends" realize that even they will not be paid does the market howl. But by that time the company that has accumulated debts is already an uncoupled wagon. There's nothing left to take from it. And the clever fraudster is already promoting a new company, which in a few years will suffer the same fate.
It is the rapidly increasing number of companies, the development of debt histories of which leads to unequivocal conclusions about fraud. That forces us to revise the rules of the BLACKLIST.AERO registry in terms of determining who is a “Defaulter” and who is a “Slow Payer”. We do this so that the creditors of such companies can sound the alarm earlier to protect other companies from dangerous cooperation with fraudsters.
Thus, now in our Rules and Definition, the definition of a Defaulter will be as follows: "Defaulter is a company that has not paid an invoice after more than 14 days past the overdue date".
For almost a year now, the BLACKLIST.AERO administration has had information about a significant part of Abdullah Al-Sayed’s assets, which he acquired with the money stolen from NEXUS FLIGHT OPERATIONS creditors. However, the information we obtained was kept away from the public. Instead of making it public, we decided to pass on all the information we had to the trustee Jumana Majdi Qutub in Saudi Arabia, who is searching for NEXUS assets for subsequent compensation of losses to the creditors of this company.
Can one company become a 39-Cases Defaulter? As the situation with the Nigerian operator ARIK AIR shows - it can if lawlessness is carried out and patronized at the state level.
This was not a voting with any outcome we knew we wanted. Both options have their advantages and challenges for us. But it was important for us to understand the real sentiments among active participants of the aviation market. Because for us these are the people who are called policy makers.
Dear BLACKLIST.AERO followers! It is extremely important for us to hear your opinion on one of the most important issues of our site. As you well know, we never delete articles from our site. For all three years, no one has managed to intimidate or bribe us. I told them every time - even if you bang your head against the brick wall, hire lawyers, bandits, killers, anyone, throw mud at us (and at me personally) in the form of various, the most idiotic fakes - it will not help! It also never came to discussing specific amounts for removing an article, because such proposals were nipped in the bud.
