Sarajevo Airport likely to terminate FlyBosnia contract
Sarajevo Airport is close to ending its contract to serve as a base for FlyBosnia after the airline failed to pay off part of its debt. According to the daily “Dnevni Avaz”, the airport is also planning to file a lawsuit against the company. The carrier currently owes Sarajevo Airport almost half a million euros in handling, landing and other charges. On Tuesday, FlyBosnia submitted a plan to pay off its mounting debt, however, the proposed solutions were unsatisfactory for the airport. The airline was unable to secure a bank guarantee nor a bill of exchange. The carrier also owes over 100.000 euros to fuel provider HIFA Petrol.
Last week, FlyBosnia said it was considering shifting its operations away from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital to Mostar and Tuzla. "Our company and staff are considering the possibility of shifting our operations to Tuzla and Mostar. In such a case, we would fly to Rome from Mostar, while London and other EU destinations would be maintained from Tuzla, from which we would provide bus transfers to Sarajevo", the airline said. Talks with Mostar Airport are set to take place soon. The carrier has requested for Sarajevo Airport to waive all taxes, as well as service fees for a period of ten years in order to continue flying there.
According to the daily, a number of employees have left the airline in recent weeks due to late wages, while some have been laid off. For the upcoming 2019/2020 winter season, which begins next Sunday, FlyBosnia has scheduled and put on sale two weekly flights from Sarajevo to London and Rome respectively, with two Airbus A319 aircraft at its disposal. "FlyBosnia is a young carrier from Bosnia and Herzegovina, which took up the risk to develop airline traffic both in the country and Sarajevo as our home base. We are well aware that we have no concessions, grants nor any other type of subsidies from either the canton, federal or state governments. This is in contrast to other regional airlines where the state invests into their carriers in order to cover their losses as they are of national importance", the company noted last week.
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