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From the company's founding in 2005 to its 2012 restructuring, all seemed well for Patraja Air, with minor incidents or accidents. Most notably for the airline, its built-in governmental security systems managed to stop a bomb threat aboard an aircraft in 2009 before it became a danger.

=== 2012 Restructuring and Downscaling of Romain Marello's Leadership ===

In 2012, a year before Patraja Air would lose its entire monopoly on travel to, from, and within Patraja, the corporation received a major restructuring after years of technical woes. Although proficient in airline travel and working with available resources, the company was severely hurting from a lack of new technologies and airplanes. A particular incident in 2010, shortly after the discontinuation of the "zero wait time" rule, was emblematic of this, with a former engineer within the corporation complaining that the welding equipment given to repair crews were "from the 1970s, at best." The corporation was struggling to buy or improve any existing planes at all.[[File:PatrajaAirPast.png|thumb|The first corporate logo of Patraja Air]]Their newest model of airplane, the self-made Karneja 101, which launched in 2009, proved to be a financial and technical disaster that lost the corporation millions, and the government, reportedly, even more than that. The Karneja 101, with only one plane made in the line that served from 2009 to 2011, was riddled with outdated software, skimpy hardware, and a lack of proficient manual instruction or even international recognition. Famously, most international visits with Patraja Air refused to serve the 101 after months of its service, stating that faulty pump systems made the aircraft a danger to even fuel in their airports. Even with a famously-reviled aircraft designed under the corporation, Patraja Air struggled to acquire any recent foreign models, either. Other than the Karneja 101, their most recent airplane line was the Ekro'Vari-17, a privately-designed corporate plane created and released in 1993.

Because of these technical woes, Patraja Air became known as a cheapskate option, even if it was the ''only'' option in the entire country, and entire protests formed against the organization, demanding even a return to the private airline system. In 2012, the Patraja Air Board of Directors stripped founder Romain Marello of some financial titles, and relegated him to merely a representative founder-chairman - a face of the company and a handler of its general areas, but not of its technical inner workings. Enraged, Marello reportedly threatened to approach the Senatorium to have the demotion overriden, but was instead reminded by the Congressional Bookkepers Office that the Congress had no such say in supervised corporate affairs. Marello accepted the demotion soon after, and has since served as a secondary face of the company.

The 2012 restructuring is seen these days, in essence, as a saving moment for Patraja Air, and a pivotal "decision point" for the corporation at a crossroads between competency and corruption. However, competition would soon test these self-supposed improvements a year after the restructuring.

=== 2013 International Flights Amendment Act ===

The government, not in sync or in agreement with the restructure or eventual improvement of Patraja Air, began pursuing plans to reopen Patrajan airspace to foreign competition and corporate entry since, at least, 2009. In 2013, these efforts of generally middle-of-the-road anti-regulationist Assemblymen and Senators materialized into the International Flights Amendment Act, which aimed to, as its name suggested, amend the SNAR Act. The IFAA did not deny Patraja Air its monopoly over inner-national travel, or even travel outside of Patraja to other areas, but instead proposed allowing foreign airlines the ability to carry people into the country. In theory, the bill proposed and its representatives argued, the demand to enter Patraja from all international areas could never be filled by one airline, and that the national economic interest of getting as many tourists, spending immigrants, and other economic assets into the country far outweighed the national interest of having a smaller, mostly-domestic airline struggle to meet the demand.