By Air Berlin and Germania now has to give up, apparently, the Icelandic budget airline Wow Air. All flights were initially cancelled. In Germany, airports are affected.
The Icelandic budget airline Wow Air will suspend until Further notice all flights. The company is in financial difficulties.
in The Morning have been deleted, among other things, the Wow Air flights between Reykjavik and Berlin-Schönefeld as well as Reykjavik and Frankfurt am Main. All the passengers had already been informed, said the Airline. You have recommended on other airlines to avoid.
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Skuli Mogensen had founded Wow Air 2011.
The Icelanders divided, in negotiations with investors about a capital increase. Until it’s all finalized, would set the operation. Previously, Wow Air had explained that the flights would only be postponed.
The airline had conducted in the past few days, conversations with Icelandair, after negotiations with the venture capital investors Indigo Partners had been canceled. Icelandair had withdrawn in the past year, a takeover offer at Wow Air. In December 2018, Wow Air announced that it would reduce its aircraft fleet by 20 to eleven aircraft and to reduce the staff by 111 Points to around 1000 employees.
Wow Air flies to about your Icelandic hub in Keflavik, near Reykjavik destinations in Europe and North America. In Germany the airports Frankfurt am Main and Berlin-Schönefeld. The setting of flight operations is likely to have a greater impact on the important tourism sector in Iceland. Wow Air carried more than a third of all the passengers on the way to the Island.
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