on Tuesday night, the German airline Germania is said to have the local court of Berlin-Charlottenburg insolvency. CEO Karsten Balke, justified the step that it had not managed to bring Financing to cover short-term liquidity needs to a successful conclusion. “We very much regret that, as a consequence, no other option than bankruptcy, remained the submission of the request,” said Balke, according to the memo.
The Grounding of the airline is not entirely surprising. Recently it became known that Germania routes with more than 30 of Central Jets is in financial difficulty. On the Short – and medium-haul routes, the Airline carried more than four million passengers per year.
flights from Zurich according to plan
From the insolvency not for the time being, the Swiss company Germania flight AG, which belongs only to 40 percent of the German companies and largely independently acting is concerned. “We will continue to operate as usual,” wrote the company on Tuesday morning in a press release. The current winter flight schedule as well as the summer flight plan in 2019 would receive, as planned, and the planning for the Winter of 2019/20 over already.
From Zurich, the Airline serves more than 20 destinations, mainly in the Mediterranean. The Zurich airport confirmed that all Germania flights Tuesday morning were carried out according to plan.
survival skill “is difficult
to assess the justified,” the Extent to which slogans of the Swiss Germania. “It is difficult to assess difficult for us, whether the Swiss company to survive on its own two feet is capable of,” said Walter Kunz, managing Director of the Swiss travel Association. For reasons of Competitive the industry, but I have a big interest in the Survival of Germania. The Association connected travel agents will be advised in such situations, your customer transparent about the corresponding risks.
Already, three weeks ago, the travel agent, Hotelplan Suisse, a stop of single-seat bookings for Germania had. In contrast, THE tourist Suisse, the Kuoni and Helvetic Tours belonging to the sold, on request, continue to flights of Germania from Zurich, such as the media spokesman Markus Flick, confirmed to the news Agency AWP.
Friedrichshafen strong
affected By the Grounding directly to the customers who have chosen a border airport of departure are affected in Switzerland. “We have more customers who have booked flights with the German Germania preferably from Friedrichshafen,” says Flick. Package tour guests are by the provisions in such cases, but on the safe side. This would be offered a replacement carriage, without extra cost, if capacity for other airlines are available.
For the Bodensee-Airport Friedrichshafen is the insolvency of a hard blow. In the past year, about a third of the 540’000 passengers on lake Constance, were flown with Germania, wrote to the airport in a notice dated Tuesday. As to be in contact with all the major tour operators and airlines, in order to close the gap in the flight plan immediately. Massively affected by the Germania-Bust also Eastern airports such as Rostock-Laage or Dresden.
The passengers in Germany that have posted to Germania and not with a package tour operator are on the go, from different sides already support. So, the Lufthansa group and the holiday airline Condor announced that the Affected discounted Tickets to offer. (Dec/sda)
Created: 05.02.2019, 13:46 PM
