Estonian Air cease operation


MA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. ma perché? ci avevo fatto un trip report. era stato un bel volo. che peccato, mi dispiace davvero tanto per questa compagnia. GRAZIE ESTONIAN
 
Transaero, Kolavia, Estonian...3 fallimenti in poco più di un mese :sconfortato:
 
Estonian Air (OV, Tallinn Lennart Meri) has announced that it will cease operations as of Sunday, November 8. The Estonian national carrier has arranged replacement flights for passengers affected by the grounding with travel dates on November 8, 9 and 10. Those booked on Estonian Air flights starting November 11 will receive full refunds from the carrier.

The decision to suspend operations follows a European Commission (EC) ruling that financial aid provided by the Estonian government to Estonian Air breached EC rules and that the airline would therefore have to repay "EUR85 million plus interest". EU commissioner Margrethe Vestager also argued that Estonian Air did not "carry out the necessary restructuring to become viable as a business" after receiving the funds.

The EC said that although two state-backed capital increases - a EUR2.48 million recapitalization and the EUR2.4 million sale of Estonian Air’s ground-handling operations to the state-owned Tallinn Lennart Meri Airport in 2009 - were legal, other subsequent ones were not. These include: recapitalizations of the airline with EUR17.9 million in November 2010 and EUR30 million issued in two tranches in December 2011 and March 2012; a rescue loan facility of EUR37 million issued in several tranches between December 2012 and November 2014; and a planned additional state capital increase of EUR40.7 million which the EC has now forbidden.

As reported by ch-aviation, Estonia's Economy Ministry has already established a new holding company - Nordic Aviation (Tallinn Lennart Meri) - in anticipation of the likely negative ruling. Nordic Aviation will use the final tranche of EUR40.7 million for initial capex requirements with domestic and foreign investors being offered stakes in the new national airline.

With Estonian Air grounded and lacking its own AOC, Nordic Aviation will commence operations on November 8 using Adria Airways' AOC, commercial platform, and ticketing system. Aircraft will be chartered from the Slovenian carrier as well as from bmi regional (BM, Aberdeen Dyce) (ERJ-145s), NextJet (2N, Stockholm Arlanda) (BAe ATPs), Trade Air (C3, Zagreb) and Carpatair (V3, Timisoara) (Fokker 100s).

Nordic Aviation will continue to serve Amsterdam, Brussels National, Copenhagen Kastrup, Stockholm Arlanda, Oslo Gardermoen, Kiev Borispol, Trondheim, Vilnius and Munich from Tallinn, but cannot assume Estonian Air's St. Petersburg and Moscow Sheremetyevo routes due to missing traffic rights. While the carrier will no longer serve Stockholm Bromma, it will take over Estonian's Copenhagen Kastrup-Örebro operations.

Operators directly affected by the ruling include Estonian's partner NextJet (2N, Stockholm Arlanda) which will have to wet-lease another ATR turboprop for its Stockholm Arlanda to Gällivare and Arvidsjaur routes previously served using Estonian Air's CRJ-900s.

Ch-aviation
 
Quello del fallimento è un campo redditizio negli ultimi tempi; forse non ho fatto un cattivo inserimento ad inserirlo nel piano carriera.
 
Abito a Tallinn. Era nell'aria. Nonostante il recente ingresso in Estonian Air della Tallink-Silja Lines (compagnia di navigazione più' importante del Baltico), il destino era segnato da gravi perdite.
Storicamente Estonian Air legata a SAS, la quale un paio di anno fa era uscita dall'azionariato. Da sola, nonostante il buon servizio, era destinata al fallimento. Lo stato estone, con 85 milioni di euro versati negli ultimi anni, ci ha messo una pezza sapendo che dalla commissione europea sarebbe arrivata prima o poi una censura.

Sorprende invece che le major europee (forse indaffarate ad una riorganizzazione dei loro network) non abbiano anticipato la decisione, attivando i canali commerciali per attivare collegamenti da e per Tallinn.

Al momento dall'Estonia, con LF molto alti, opera Lufthansa e Lot. Per l'Italia, Alitalia non ha un code sharing (nemmeno via Air Baltic).
 
Magari ricordo male ma Estonian non operava il primo volo della mattina da MXP a VIE (e, viceversa, l'ultimo della sera da VIE a MXP) per conto di Austrian?
 
Ciao!
io ho volato con loro ad Ottobre ma per conto di Austrian sulla tratta Vienna - Cracovia. Austrian aveva diversi voli operati da loro e addirittura il materiale di bordo (rivista, tovagliolo, bicchiere) erano brandizzati Austrian. Le hostess invece erano Estoni.
 
SAS apre voli da TLL a ARN, CPH e OSL; Estonian volava in c/s per SK.

SAS launches flights to Tallinn

SAS will begin flying to Tallinn from Stockholm, Oslo, and Copenhagen from next week.

Following Estonian Air’s announcement that they cease their operations, SAS has reacted and will begin flying between the three Scandinavian capitals and Tallinn. This means daily flights between the cities, ensuring that travelers in Scandinavia have continued good flight connections to Estonia. Thanks to SAS’s new direct routes Estonian travelers easily get access to Scandinavia and the rest of the world.

“Tallinn is a destination with a high proportion of frequent travelers and is also a popular holiday getaway. We therefore decided to act quickly, as Tallinn is a large and important destination in our region. Scandinavia also occupies a geographically advantageous location for shuttle services to and from Estonia,” says Eivind Roald, Executive Vice President Commercial at SAS.

SAS plans to fly:
Stockholm – Tallinn: 4 times per day in each direction
Copenhagen – Tallinn: 3 times per day in each direction
Oslo – Tallinn: 1 flight per day in each direction

Most of the new departures start next week. More information about start dates and departure times will be announced soon.

For further information, please contact:
SAS press duty telephone, +46 8 797 29 44
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