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Vienna airport will not process outgoing SkyEurope flights as of midnight August 14

Fri, Aug 14 2009 18:27 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Vienna airport will not process outgoing SkyEurope flights as of midnight August 14

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Vienna airport will not process outgoing SkyEurope flights as of midnight August 14

Photo: TOBY MELVILLE

Debt-ridden Slovakian SkyEurope will not be allowed to operate on Vienna airport from midnight Friday August 14 2009 on, after failing to pay its debt to airport operator Flughafen Wien, the latter said on August 14 2009.


"Despite long and intensive talks with SkyEurope, the outstanding and due payments were not made by Friday, 3pm," Reuters quoted the Flughafen Wien statement as saying. "Flughafen Wien therefore ends all services to SkyEurope by Friday, midnight."

The airport will still handle incoming SkyEurope flights but will not process flights whose scheduled departure is later than midnight on August 14.

SkyEurope slipped into insolvency and sought bankruptcy protection after losing 27.5 per cent of its passengers by the end of June.

Bulgarian-language daily Dnevnik quoted a SkyEurope source as saying that flights to Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, Dubrovnik and Split could be among those affected by the ban.

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