The rescue of the insolvent Berlin-based airline has failed. 1400 Employees of the Germania expect your resignation, after all seriously jumped to the interested parties.
At the beginning of February, Germania had set on the night of the operation, the final closure is to be avoided. The provisional insolvency administrator, Ruediger Wienberg said, all serious bidders have backed out. “Not cancelled, only the remaining interested party for a Takeover of flight operations,” it said in a press release. “The two interested parties for maintenance and technology have pulled out of the bidding process.”
Hardly time for a solution
For those interested, but also for the salvation of the whole, was the tight time frame, a Central Problem: the insolvency of money is only up to 31. March paid, after this date, Germania can no longer get the business operating from its own power. “Less than two months for the investors, very little to plan a Takeover, to decide, to calculate,” said Wienberg.
The Airline had around 1400 employees, after around 250 are gone since known of the provisional insolvency are Employed already. Competitors in growth rate had immediately advertised in accordance with the provisional Of the employees. The remaining staff have to expect in the next few days with the notice.
Boeing’s problems intensified rescue
Most of the white-and-green-Germania-Design-painted aircraft were not the Airline itself, but were leased. Because Germania was not able to pay the leasing rates and the main holiday time in the summer so much capacity will be needed, had the lessor, hardly any patience with the ailing Airline. The rescue was, according to the Vienna mountain from the beginning, a “show of strength”.
The world-wide flight ban for the Boeing 737 MAX has aggravated the situation – although Germania is itself used no machines of the type: Because of the Grounding, a further 370 machines on the market are missing in the world, and in the summer the capacity will be scarce anyway. Therefore, the lessor, the former Germania can rent machines more profitably elsewhere.
The series of the 737 MAX is the latest variant of the successful Kurzstreckenjets of the US manufacturer Boeing. However, the two machines crashed within a few months, shortly after the Start, a total of almost 350 people died. Because of striking Similarities between the two accidents, the model needs to be reviewed fundamentally to possible safety defects.
Germania was about 30 years, mainly as a Charter and holiday airline active. Of the last 18 European airports destinations in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the Middle East were served.
ehl/AR (dpa, rtr, afp, hww)