Alternate Airport for Scheduled 135 Operator
I fly for a 135 Commuter and being that we are scheduled we have to have approval to run scheduled operations at the airports we fly to. Does anyone know if we need to have approved alternates as well? I can't find a reg or op spec that says so but our POI seems to believe it. We finally got a list this week. The Op Specs do say the certificate holder must determine a list of alternates that meet 4 requirements but nowhere did it say the FAA, FSDO, Administrator or any of that has to "approve" it. Really annoyed on this one because sometimes there were no alternates available. Previously we could only use as an alternate those airports that we were approved to provide scheduled operations but diverting to an alternate is not a scheduled service that we provide.