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AeroSvit Airline has cancelled a number of arriving and departing flights on January 9, 2013.

The airline cancelled the following departing flights: VV21 for
Simferopol, VV207 for Warsaw, VV485 for Minsk, VV229 for Athens, VV461
for Yerevan, VV233 for Bucharest, and VV13 for Odesa.

The airline also cancelled the following arriving flights: VV210 for
Prague, VV24 from Simferopol, VV486 from Minsk, VV234 from Bucharest,
VV230 from Athens, VV18 from Odesa, and VV462 from Yerevan.

As reported, AeroSvit was forced to cancel a number of flights on
January 5-8 due to the suspension of their servicing at some airports,
particularly in Warsaw, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Tel Aviv, the press
service of the company said.

The grounding of the airline’s aircraft at the airports, in turn,
restricted AeroSvit’s possibility of ensuring the timely implementation
of flights to other destinations.

“The decision of airports and handling companies was caused by
distorted information in some online mass media about the alleged
declaring of AeroSvit bankrupt. Contractors, according to their
requests, feared that the Ukrainian carrier may terminate operations and
payment for the services rendered,” reads a company press release.

Due to this, AeroSvit sent a written notice to all partner companies
that it is intending to continue operations and fulfill its current
liabilities.

AeroSvit also said that the airline’s appeal to the Economic Court of
Kyiv region with a request to initiate bankruptcy is aimed at launching
the procedure of reorganization, restoring the company’s solvency and
ensuring the company fulfills its obligations to creditors in full.

AeroSvit was created in 1994. It is based at Boryspil airport in
Kyiv. It serves 80 international destinations in 34 countries. It
provides services to passengers in the largest cities of Ukraine. Its
fleet consists of 28 Boeing aircraft, including 20 medium-range Boeing
737s and eight long-haul Boeing 767s. In addition to that, it operates
Airbus 320, Airbus 321, Embraer 145, Embraer 190, and ATR-72 aircraft.