Patraja Air (Patraja)

The Patrajan Air Travel Corporation, often simply stylized to Patraja Air, is the sole legal domestic airline in the country of Patraja, formed in March 17th, 2003, under the Sectional Provisions of the Safer National Airline Regulation Act, which officiated the consolidation of all air travel within Patraja to one semi-governmental entity in 2002. The SNAR Act was formed in reaction to the Flight 313, 453, and 670 Incidents of 2002, and essentially banned private corporation

s from domestic air operations within Patraja. The Patrajan Air Travel Corporation was formed soon after under government mergers of both public and previously-private corporate entities. Most notably,

the large air corporations of Karneja Airlines and the Praxton Airline Corporation were nationalized and merged into the new airline. In 2005, Patraja Air officially launched to the public after three years of preparations and rebranding of services, airplanes, airports, and other such information pieces.

Currently, Patraja Air still serves as the sole legal airline within Patraja, but with the 2013 International Flights Amendment Act, it is not the sole airline allowed to travel from other countries into Patraja - starting with its imple

mentation in 2014, the IFA Act allows international companies to travel into Patraja for immigration, but not to assist in emigration. In 2020, Patraja Air was also moved from the Senatorium Subcommittee on International Travel to the newly-made Ministry of Commercial Air Management, to be commanded directly by the Minister.

Founding and Early Years
Patraja Air was founded after the SNAR Act's reaction to the Patrajan Airline Crash Incidents of 2002, where several aircraft plummeted to a nearly-100% fatality rate within one month of one another. After this event and public outcry over the shoddy shape of the Patrajan airline industry. After weeks of deliberation, the Confederal Peoples Congress abolished the previous government-sponsored airline, the Air Patraja United Airline Company, and officially passed the SNAR Act. The SNAR Act banned the operation of any international commercial airlines within Patraja, which were blamed by the government for the crashed planes, and immediately requested the creation of a national semi-governmentally supported airline from the usage of government planes, old APUAC planes, along with nationalized planes from private airlines within the nation. Weeks later, preliminary plans were put into place after a meeting with the then-former heads of private airlines within the country, which apparently ended in a fistfight between government and corporate officials. Regardless, provisions for a Patrajan air corporation were submitted to the Congress for approval, funding, responsibility allocation, along with general assistance. On March 17th, 2003, the officially-named Patrajan Air Travel Corporation was made, and the lead architect of the SNAR Act's bureaucratic provisions, former Minister of Finance Romain Marello, was put in place as the interim President, Chairman, and CEO. He would, upon the official travel launch of the corporation in 2005, be named permanent Founder and Chairman, with his other roles delegated to other people. Soon after, on March 20th, the first logo of "Patraja Air," as the corporation began calling itself, was reveled to the public.