Boryspil Airport Resumes Handling AeroSvit Flights
The state-owned Boryspil International Airport has resumed handling AeroSvit flights (both are located in Kyiv region), the airport said in the press-release.
“Boryspil International Airport has began handing departure flights of the AeroSvit airline after receiving a partial advance payment and a letter of intent to pay for the services to be rendered next days,” the press-release noted.
The airline has pledged to transfer money on Wednesday, January 9.
“If the airline fails to meet its obligations or delays the next advance payment, the airport will stop handling its departure flights at 12:00 on January 9,” the press-release noted.
The airport’s website informs about check-in and boarding for the suspended flights, including those bounded for Copenhagen, Tbilisi, Vilnius, Bucharest and Prague.
In addition, the cancelled VV131 flight to New-York scheduled for 12:55 is expected to leave at 17:30.
The flight to Dnipropetrovsk (scheduled for 13:00) is to take off at 20:00, the flight to Tel-Aviv (scheduled for 13:30) will leave at 21:00.
According to an AeroSvit spokesperson, the airline had reached the agreement with Boryspil airport on payments for the service rendered, therefore the processing of passengers was resumed and the suspended flights were handled.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the state-owned Boryspil International Airport enterprise (Kyiv region) suspended handling AeroSvit flights from 12:50 January 4, 2013 because of the airline’s failure to make prepayments.
The AeroSvit flights to Berlin and Riga scheduled for 11:55 took off.
The rest flights were suspended. The VV131 flight to New York (scheduled to leave at 12:55) and the VV 229 flight to Athens (scheduled of 12:50) were cancelled.
Sheremetyevo airport (Moscow), Minsk airport (Belarus) and Lviv airport (Ukraine) suspended handling AeroSvit flights in December because of the airline’s debts, but the latter managed to reach the agreement on resuming flights during one or several says.
On December 29 Kyiv Regional Economic Court instituted the bankruptcy proceedings against AeroSvit based on the airline’s application.
AeroSvit stressed that despite of the restructuring procedure it would continue its operation and fulfillment of current obligations.