Aerosvit, one of the largest Ukrainian air carrier, is in trouble with airports again due to its debts.
Five of its flights from Boryspil International airport in Kyiv were cancelled on Dec. 5 while Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport said it will stop servicing Aerosvit flights starting Dec. 10.
Flights from Kyiv to Moscow, Tbilisi, Minsk and Batumi were cancelled on Dec. 5.
Boryspil’s press service confirms the “debt of one of the national carriers is growing”, but said they hope the problem will be resolved soon. “In case of any suspending of servicing we will notify passengers in advance,” reads the Boryspil’s statement.
Neither Boryspil nor Aerosvit commented on cancellation of the flights.
Meanwhile Aerosvit is in trouble with Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport as well, which said it will stop
servicing its flights starting Dec. 10 because of the airline’s debts.
According to Sheremetyevo’s official statement, Aerosvit owes them over $1 million in services and fees.
According to the press service of AeroSvit, because of the delay in payments to the company’s account, it impaired the schedule of payments for air navigation services at some airports, due to which a number of flights have recently been delayed. Aerosvit says it is gradually resuming payments.
The company, owned by billionaire Igor
Kolomoisky, has been in trouble
with airports before. In March, Boryspil
International Airport temporarily stopped servicing Aerosvit planes after the
airline failed to pay its airport fees on time. The incident triggered dozens
of flight delays.
During this summer’s European football championship Euro 2012, which Ukraine co-hosted with Poland, Aerosvit also caused passengers a lot of
headaches with delayed or cancelled flights.
All the troubles were widely reported in
domestic media.
Kyiv Post staff writer Svitlana Tuchynska can be
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