The Berlin-based airline Germania, has filed for bankruptcy. It was also immediately contact your flight operations. As the company announced on Tuesday night, the Germania fluggesellschaft GmbH and its sister company for technical services, the Germania Technik Brandenburg GmbH, as well as the Germania flight services GmbH. The business operations of Swiss Germania flight AG and the Bulgarian Eagle to go further.

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.

He regretted the impact of the step for the employees who have given their Best for a reliable flight operation – even in the last tense weeks. The affected passengers are asked Balke to excuse me. Passengers who have booked your Germania flight in the framework of a package tour, should, according to the memo directly to your tour operator to receive a replacement transport. It did but not claim that those who have bought flight ticket directly at Germania.

at the beginning of January the financial difficulties in the case of Germania had become known. The flight operations went initially according to plan. In the meantime, the company had spoken of the successful financing negotiations. At the end of January it became known, however, that the payment of the January salaries of German employees delays. The Swiss Germania had communicated to the wages of their employees in January, paid.

hope is gone

The Airline justified the financial bottleneck with massive increases in fuel prices, and with an “exceptionally high number of technical services to the fleet”. Yet on Monday there had been a report about a group of investors from North Rhine-Westphalia, the hope left.

The “Neue Ruhr/Neue Rhein Zeitung” reported with reference to your own information that a group under the coordination of former Airline managers wanted to help, and in the short term, a two-digit million amount provided should be. To to the group of former Air Berlin chief Joachim Hunold. Germania wanted to comment on the report. In the night the message that before the district court of Berlin-Charlottenburg the insolvency for the firms referred to in the applied for had been followed.

37 aircraft in operation

Germania, a German airline with a more than 30-year history. It was founded in 1986, since 2009, Berlin is the seat of the company. On the Short – and medium-haul routes, the Airline carried more than four million passengers per year to more than 60 destinations within Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Together with the Swiss Germania flight operations AG and the Bulgarian Eagle Germania operating the last 37 planes. In the past year, the company wrote with the green-and-white Logo to your boss Balke, according to the red.

(chk/sda)

Created: 05.02.2019, 02:24 PM

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