Department of Transportation (DOT) has revoked Airbahn’s AOC due to lack of progress in the final process.

The DOT gave the following reasons for this decision:

• Airbahn has been in Phase 3 of FAA certification for over three years
• Airbahn isn’t close completing safety certifications
• Based on how long it has been, Airbahn employees already require recurrent training without the company having operated a single flight

As previously reported, Airbahn is a private prospective airline based at Irvine, CA and plans to operate within and between destinations in Western USA.

The upstart had big plans: