Cascada de quiebras en el sector

[ckm]

Y hoy Pinnacle Airlines tambien ha presentado la bancarrota (aunque siendo EEUU seguiran operando )

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/...tcy-protection

Pinnacle Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

NEW YORK—Pinnacle Airlines Corp., a regional carrier that flies under contract for Delta, United, Continental and US Airways, has filed for bankruptcy protection to deal with its mounting debt.

The Memphis, Tenn.-based airline said late Sunday its current business model isn't sustainable. It had tried for months to blend its operating subsidiaries to save money and recover from lost business with major airlines due to flying cutbacks. In its filing Sunday, it lists $1.42 billion in debt and $1.54 billion in assets. It ended the third quarter—the most recent quarter for which financial results are available—with just $81.8 million in cash and cash equivalents.
Pinnacle, which mostly flies between major airports in the East, has been hurt by rising costs and integration problems. It plans to wind down the United Express flights it operates for United Continental Holdings Inc. It will continue Delta Connection flights for Delta Air Lines Inc. It's already in the process of winding down its service with US Airways. (...)

Pinnacle tiene 3 compañias (Pinnacle, Colgan Air y Mesaba) que operan vuelos regionales para Delta, United y US Airways. En total opera 347 aviones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacle_Airlines_Corp.

[onopko]

Originally Posted by ckm

Y hoy Pinnacle Airlines tambien ha presentado la bancarrota (aunque siendo EEUU seguiran operando )

Más me vale.. que hago ORD-JFK el sábado con ellos!!!

[Squad]

Una pregunta desde la ignorancia al respecto.

¿Es lo mismo a lo que se acogió recientemente AA? Y que durante la crisis del 11-S también se acogieron el resto de grandes de USA.

Un saludo

[hectorvlg21]

Originally Posted by Squad

Una pregunta desde la ignorancia al respecto.

¿Es lo mismo a lo que se acogió recientemente AA? Y que durante la crisis del 11-S también se acogieron el resto de grandes de USA.

Un saludo

Si, es el capítulo 11 de la Ley de Quiebras de Estados Unidos en inglés Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code que permite a las empresas en EE.UU con problemas financieros a reorganizarse bajo la protección de la ley

[Anraman]

Es que no es bancarrota, sino "protección contra la bancarrota". Viene a ser una suspensión de pagos, o concurso de acreedores.

[ckm]

http://cphpost.dk/business/cimber-st...-goes-bankrupt

http://www.cimber.com/

Cimber Sterling goes bankrupt

Passengers left holding worthless tickets after airline cancels all routes

The Danish airline Cimber Sterling has declared bankruptcy after its owners decided not to continue their financial support of the company.

“Because of this, the board of directors has decided to declare the company bankrupt,” the company said in a statement.

The statement goes on to say that all of the airline’s flights are “provisionally cancelled” and that flyers that had purchased travel insurance would receive a refund from the Travel Guarantee Fund.

Travellers who did not purchase travel insurance are pretty much out of luck.

Jan Palmer, Cimber’s CEO, said he was most concerned about the airline’s customers.

"This is a sad day for Danish aviation, for Cimber Sterling and for me personally," Palmer told Jyllands-Posten. “But it is far worse for those passengers that have been left holding tickets.”

Jesper Hansen and his wife wound up stranded in Rome with a pair of worthless Cimber Sterling tickets. He did not purchase travel insurance when he booked the flights and now must buy two new tickets to get back to Denmark. Hansen acknowledged that not buying the insurance was probably a mistake.

"It would probably have been smarter to play it safe during these times when airlines are having trouble making money,” he told Jyllands-Posten.

The bankruptcy hits domestic routes connecting Copenhagen Airport to Karup, Bornholm, Sønderborg and Billund especially hard because Cimber Sterling was the only company flying from those smaller airports to the capital. Passengers from Aarhus and Aalborg can still get to and from Copenhagen on SAS.

SAS has announced it is adding flights in light of the development but acknowledged that the bankruptcy of Cimber Sterling, which was their partner on several routes, will affect some SAS flights.

"It is inevitable that this situation will affect SAS traffic,” the company wrote in a statement. “Our priority is those customers that purchased tickets from SAS.”

SAS’s statement calls Cimber Sterling’s bankruptcy “deeply regrettable" and says that SAS is working to get schedules back to normal as soon as possible, although they were not sure when that would be.

A spokesperson from Copenhagen Airport said they are working to fill the gap left by Cimber Sterling.

"We are looking at what we can do to fill the hole,” the airport's communications officer, Anne Munck, told Jyllands-Posten. “These cancellations will not affect other traffic at Copenhagen Airport.”

Cimber had suffered financial difficulties over the past couple of years, leading to its partial sale to Ukrainian billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskyi in August 2011. It was his Cypriot-based company, Mansvell, that pulled the plug.

The Sønderborg-based carrier had operated for nearly 62 years since its founding as Cimber Air in 1950. It gained the Sterling brand when it bought Sterling Airlines in 2008. The company operated about 25 planes.

What will ultimately happen to Cimber Sterling’s routes, equipment – and more than 600 employees - is still uncertain.

The company said that it hopes to resume flying some routes in the future to improve its value to any possible buyers.

[ckm]

Estas eran las rutas operadas (quiza faltan algunas):

Aalborg:

Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen
Summer: Antalya, Chania, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca

Billund

Bergen, Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda

Copenhagen:

Aalborg, Aarhus, Billund, Bornholm, Karup, Málaga, Norrköping, Prague, Rome-Fiumicino, Sønderborg, Stockholm-Bromma, Växjö-Smaland
Summer: Antalya, Barcelona, Burgas, Catania, Chania, Florence, Montpellier, Naples, Nice, Palma de Mallorca

Seguramente entre Norwegian, Sun Air of Scandinavia y Ryanair se repartan el pastel. La duda es sin con esta quiebra, Ryanair se va a meter finalmente en CPH (ademas la nueva terminal low-cost debe de estar mas vacia).

[darthdla]

Vaya... Hace poco se lo comentaba a alguien (creo que a vuelosvigo), que la siguiente en quebrar era Cimber, que llevaba varios meses de reestructuración y no tiraba bien.

El SwiftCPH está vacío, sólo los vuelos de EZY van allí. Ryanair podría aprovechar la oportunidad para forzar un poco la negociación y condiciones. Vueling podría poner alguna frecuencia adicional, easyJet basar uno o dos aviones y Norwegian quedarse con todo el resto aprovechando su macro pedido de aviones que empezará a recibir (si no ha empezado ya). Sterling en su día quebró, Cimber recogió las migajas... y ahora ha vuelto a caer. Lástima.

[darthdla]

Norwegian no pierde el tiempo: tarifas rescate disponibles a partir de 75€. Del resto de aerolíneas de momento no he leído nada.

[VY9977]

VLG tambien ha sacado su plan de rescate.

[darthdla]

Y flybe Nordic ha sacado el suyo también.

[hectorvlg21]

Cierra Mint Airways

MInt Airways echa el cierre tan sólo dos años después de ser presentada en sociedad.

http://fly-news.es/aerolineas/cierra-mint-airways/

[VTS1600]

Pues que bien...

[Vronsky]

Originally Posted by hectorvlg21

http://fly-news.es/aerolineas/cierra-mint-airways/

Bueno, no es que sus aviones se movieran mucho...
Anteayer justo ví moverse uno de sus 757 en Barajas, y ví tcps suyos por la terminal, y pensé que por fín habían conseguido algún vuelo...

[ckm]

Air Finland, quebrada.

http://yle.fi/uutiset/air_finland_ou...siness/6196080

Air Finland out of business

The 10-year-old airline and package tour operator has ended all operations and filed for bankruptcy.

All Air Finland flights are cancelled as of Tuesday evening, reports the Finnish News Agency STT.

In a brief statement on its website, the leisure airline expresses deep regret for the harm caused to its customers by the sudden announcement.

According to STT, there are now around 1,000 Air Finland customers abroad. The carrier flew to destinations in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey as well as Dubai.

En España volaban a AGP, ALC y LPA y TFS (temporada)

[Andrex]

Originally Posted by Vronsky

ví tcps suyos por la terminal, y pensé que por fín habían conseguido algún vuelo...

Parece que te estés riendo de ellos.

[Vronsky]

Originally Posted by Andrex

Parece que te estés riendo de ellos.

No sabía que tuvieras sentido del humor...

[Andrex]

Hablando de sentido del humor ¿¿eres tú al que no le gusta que al A380 le llamen la "ballena"?? te lo pregunto porque me pareció que una ocasión pillaste una rabieta por semejante tontería.

[GatoVolador]

Originally Posted by ckm

Air Finland, quebrada.

http://yle.fi/uutiset/air_finland_ou...siness/6196080



En España volaban a AGP, ALC y LPA y TFS (temporada)

Pues Air Finland era cliente de Iberia Mantenimiento...

[VY9977]

Ahora no hay ninguna compañia que ofrezca rescates? solo Volaban a HEL?

Que pena me da que este tipo de compañias se vaya al garete. Esperemos que los pasajeros lleguen lo antes posible de vuelta a sus casas