AirAustralia Bankrupt
澳洲一家廉价航空破产4000多名旅客滞留在国外
澳洲航空公司(Air Australia)17日宣布破产托管后，导致4000多名旅客滞留在各地，（夏威夷岛，泰国普吉岛等）
众多Air Australia的债权人因为并无担保，同样损失惨重（大概几千万澳币）
由于Air Australia的候机楼、五架A330空客、一架A320空客都是租用来的，因此，Air Australia破产后，遗留的资产实际上屈指可数，根本还不了此前欠下的诸多债务。
前售出的近10万张机票，也可能就此作废（1-2千万澳币的票），除此之外，Air Australia的破产还直接导致300名雇员失业。
除了旅客之外债权人包括机场，航油公司，航材工装公司，政府等（欠债要好几百万）
Air Australia和飞机租赁公司的情况到目前不是很清楚
2月17号-因为在泰国不能赊账购买航油，所有航班停飞
因为大部分的旅客用行用卡买票，银行会退款
澳大利亚证券和投资委员会申明：“在澳洲航空行业又碰到破产的事件，政府要增强保护消费者的措施”
Air Australia的简介
CEO是34岁的Mark James。工作经验包括7年在澳洲安捷航空（2002年倒闭）。2002在Strategic Airlines当做执行总监和主要股东。Strategic 是包机航空公司，主要的客户是澳洲政府的国防部。2009年Strategic买下了Ozjet (基地：墨尔本/ 4架A320）。2011年底改成AirAustralia
国际航线：巴厘岛，普吉岛，火奴鲁鲁
国内航线：墨尔本，布里斯班，赫德兰端口，达比Collapse costs creditors millions
Matt O'Sullivan
February 18, 2012
THE collapse of the international budget airline, Air Australia, which left 4000 passengers stranded as far afield as Hawaii, is set to result in unsecured creditors losing tens of millions of dollars. Hundreds of creditors - including passengers, airports and refuellers - are unlikely to recover the money owed to them
because the airline's assets are minimal. Air Australia's airport terminal and fleet of five Airbus A330 aircraft and one A320 are all leased.
As well as stranding 4000 passengers in Australia and throughout the Asia Pacific, the budget airline's collapse has put 300 employees out of work. Air Australia had sold about 100,000 tickets for flights which have yet to be taken, leaving those who paid with anything but credit cards out of pocket.
Air Australia was grounded yesterday after a fuel supplier in Phuket, Thailand, refused to extend credit. It led to Air Australia's chief executive and owner, Michael James, placing it in the hands of voluntary administrators at 1.30am yesterday.
The administrator, Mark Korda of KordaMentha, said his best estimate was that between $10 million and $20 million was owed on about 100,000 tickets, while millions of dollars more was likely to be owed to unsecured creditors, which would include airports, caterers, parts suppliers and governments.
Mr Korda said it was ''quite possible'' more was owed in repayments for leases on Air Australia's aircraft.
But he emphasised the vast majority of tickets would have been paid for with credit cards, which meant those passengers were likely to receive refunds from their banks.
The administrator is still assessing what assets Air Australia owns but Mr Korda pointed out that airlines ''were not usually asset-rich''. As part of its work, KordaMentha will be investigating whether Air Australia was trading while insolvent. The airline continued to sell tickets up until 1.30am yesterday.
A spokesman for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission said he could not comment on specific instances but emphasised ''trading while insolvent is a serious breach of the law and it is something that ASIC would take action on if it was shown to have occurred''.
The collapse of yet another Australian airline has highlighted the need for tighter consumer protection laws. Intending Air Australia passengers who booked by means other than credit cards, and did not have a travel insurance policy covering them, are unlikely to get their money back.
Airlines are not subject to the same rigours as travel agents, which have to pay an annual fee to the Travel Compensation Fund. It is
used to cover consumers in the event of a travel agency going belly up.
Air Australia flew international routes to Bali, Phuket and Honolulu, while its domestic network covered Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Port Hedland and Derby
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Airline's wobbly route meant end of the line was a matter of time
Matt O'Sullivan
February 18, 2012
IN AN industry known for big names, big costs and big egos, Michael James was a no-name with big dreams.
But they finally came crashing down for the young Kiwi-born businessman in the early hours yesterday when his baby, Air Australia, collapsed owing tens of millions of dollars, stranding
4000 passengers as far afield as Thailand and Hawaii and putting 300 employees out of work.
Mr James, 34, is an aviation buff. His first stop after leaving school was Ansett, where he worked for seven years, including a stint behind the check-in counter. But it was in the field of aircraft brokerage that he began to build his charter business into a
full-fledged airline.
Aviation buff … Michael James.
Three years ago the company he founded, Strategic Aviation, bought the assets of formula one racing identity Paul Stoddart's failed business-class airline Ozjet, for what Mr James later described as a ''minimal amount''.
Within a year, Strategic went from having no aircraft to a fleet of seven planes, including Airbus A330s and A320s (some of which flew charters for holidaymakers in Europe).
Strategic earned its money in charter operations for government departments, flying Australian troops and military cargo to the Middle East and moving immigration detainees around the country. But the loss of a $30 million contract with the Department of Defence in 2010 amid an Australian Federal Police investigation forced the airline to try its hand at becoming a commercial carrier. The federal police later dropped its investigation into whether criminal offences occurred in the awarding of a Defence tender to Strategic Aviation in 2005.
The airline quickly expanded its commercial passenger network, keeping its hand in flying immigration detainees and servicing the fly-in, fly-out market for resource companies.
But the foray into commercial flying brought much higher risks than reliable government contracts.
Rebadged as Air Australia last September, the carrier struggled to find its niche as a ''boutique carrier'' in Australia and the
Asia-Pacific.
The company's most recent financial accounts show the commercial airline was cash-flow positive in 2010 only because it received a loan of more than $6 million from the charter business. When asked about his airline's financial health early last year, Mr James said it would be profitable in the year ahead ''without a doubt''.
But the faces of passengers stuck in Phuket last night told a different story.
''They kept telling us the flight was delayed because of small technical difficulties but we smelt a rat,'' Bill Tehan from Melbourne said. ''We were all shattered.''
with Lindsay Murdoch
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2012年1月28日，旅客运输总量位列西班牙第五的SPANAIR 航空公司因运营不畅突然宣布破产了，负债总金额约3亿欧元。仅28-29日两天，SPANAIR共计取消212个航班，受困旅客多达2.27余万人，及500余架次航班受到影响。据悉，西班牙航空公司有2000多名员工将面临失业。。
2010年初SPANAIR申明公司财务状况已经非常危险
2011年西加泰罗尼亚政府称将不再对该公司进行资助，西中央政府对此表示赞同。
最近Qatar航空公司申明公司放弃接管的方案。地中航空公司现在都在找欧洲投资机会。
Spanair停航班时没符合西班牙政府的规则，因此被罚款9百万欧元
该航空公司1986年成立于西班牙巴塞罗那，是该自治区重要航
空企业，同时为欧洲廉价航空协会成员，受加泰罗尼亚地方政府管理。
2011年，SPANAIR旅客运输总量约1250万人次，其中加泰罗尼亚地区430万人次。
公司主要股东包括加泰罗尼亚航空企业联会（股份比例84.7%）、北欧航空（11.6%）及其他。令其大股东之一巴塞罗那市政府蒙受了巨大的经济损失
Spanair航空的破产使其他各大航空公司陷入了旅客争抢大战
中，该航空公司的倒闭留下了超过1250万的客源。
争论的焦点主要聚集在El Prat机场，Spanair曾以430万旅客量成为该机场第二大航空公司. SPANAIR主要运营的路线有半岛和Baleares以及Canarias群岛的航线。
2月21日，Ryanair航空公司宣布了一个大快人心的好消息，从4月份开始，巴塞罗那El Prat国际机场将会开通直飞Menorca 海岛的航班。Ryanair航空公司还提供飞往Alicante和Bilbao 的航线，这两条航线先前也是由破产的Spanair航空公司提供的
公司建于1988年（股东北欧航空和一个西班牙投资公司）2008年，西班牙航空公司一架客机在马德里机场起飞时冲出跑道并起火，致死154人、致伤18人。那次空难对航空公司的打击
非常致命，不仅仅面临着对家属的巨额赔偿，还导致航空公司的营业额直线下降。
Spanair's sudden collapse leaves over 30,000 passengers stranded
Spanish airline Spanair collapsed suddenly over the weekend due to a lack of funding, shutting down 220 flights and leaving passengers stranded across Europe and Africa.
Talia Ralph January 30, 2012 14:45
Two Spanair flight attendant hug each other at the main entrance of the Spanair headquarter in Barcelona on January 28, 2012 in Barcelona, Spain.
Spanair, Spain's fourth-largest airline, collapsed suddenly over the weekend, leaving over 30,000 passengers stranded across Europe and Africa, BBC News reported.
As of Monday, at least 37,000 passengers' flights had been affected by Spanair's decision to ground all operations late Friday, a Spanair spokesman said, AFP reported.
"Spanair is permanently in contact with the Spanish aeronautical authorities participating in the Barcelona airport crisis committee where continually evaluates the contingency plan for the cessation of the airline′s operations," said a statement on the company's website. "Spanair apologizes to all our customer affected by this situation."
The airline's chairman Ferran Soriano said that Spanair, which is based in the Catalonia region and subsidized by the Catalan government, had failed to attract investment and the regional government decided to stop providing funds, the UK Press Association reported. The airline was in takeover talks with Qatar airlines, according to the BBC.
Spain's government began legal proceedings against the airline on Friday, which could lead to Spanair being fined 9 million euro
(nearly $12 million) for two "serious infringements" of aviation security legislation, development minister Ana Pastor said.
"The ministry will not cease until those who failed to fulfill the norms and trampled on the rights of citizens take full responsibility," Pastor told a news conference, RTE reported.
Spanair filed for voluntary bankruptcy Monday, AFP reported. The airline declared liabilities of more than 300 million euros ($393 million), the High Court of Catalonia said in a statement.
Low-cost airlines such as Ryanair and Easyjet had challenged the legality of the government subsidies Spanair was receiving to the European Commission, BBC News reported.
Ryanair said on Monday that it was looking at opportunities in Spain.
"We certainly see it as an opportunity to expand our base," it said, according to BBC news.
Spanair, whose hub was Barcelona airport, employed around 2,000 people and used the services of about 1,200 ground staff, UKPA reported. The collapse could lead to the loss of 4,000 jobs.
In August 2008, Spanair was responsible for a crash that killed 154 people, according to AFP. It was considered to be Spain's worst aviation disaster in 25 years. Only 18 people survived after a jet crashed shortly after take-off as it tried to leave Madrid for the Canary Islands.
Spanair is the third Spanish airline to go under during the past five years, AFP reported. Air Madrid folded in 2006, and Air Comet in 2009
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Are Europe's airlines about to crash?
Airlines seek investment to stop Spanair collapse from triggering a trend of failed airlines.
Paul Ames January 31, 2012 15:23
BRUSSELS, Belgium – The sudden collapse of Spanair over the weekend left over 20,000 passengers stranded around Europe and North Africa.
Now industry insiders are wondering if the Spa nish airline’s demise could be the first of many, as cash-strapped European governments can no longer afford to keep failing carriers flying.
“As the economic noose tightens around European airlines, the industry’s ranks look set to thin this year,” the a viation intelligence provider CAPA wrote on its website Tuesday. “Governments are now reluctant or unable to prop up their ailing national airlines as the debt crisis forces unpopular austerity programs right across the economy.”
Spanair filed for voluntary bankruptcy on Monday, declaring debt of 474 million euros. That followed Friday’s collapse, when all flights were halted after talks with Qatar Airlines on the purchase of a 49 percent stake in Spain’s third-largest carrier broke down and the regional government in Catalonia refused to support the airline with more funds.
Catalonia is a major shareholder in Spanair and had invested 140 million euros in the airline. However, the regional government is itself heavily in debt, and is facing austerity measures as part of Spain’s efforts to cut public spending.
The Spanair collapse has highlighted the plight of airlines across the continent, with governments from Portugal to Poland seeking private investors to save troubled carriers.
The Hungarian airline Malev appealed to its government for help on Monday after acknowledging that its finances had become unviable, but the government in Budapest is facing one of Europe’s most acute budget crunches and previous subsidies to the airline were declared illegal by the European Union.
The government in Warsaw is hoping to complete the privatization of the loss-making LOT Polish Airlines by the middle of this year, with Turkish Airlines among the frontrunners to buy.
Portugal aims to start the privatization of TAP Air Portugal this year while the Irish government is mulling the sale of its 25 percent stake in Aer Lingus. The Czech Prime Minister Peter Necas last month said privatization is the only way to save the CSA airline.
Despite the suffering of such venerable national flag carriers, a number of low cost upstarts are thriving.
Ireland’s Ryanair on Monday posted a third quarter profit of 15 million euro along with a 13 percent rise in revenues and
Norwegian Air Shuttle last week ordered 222 airlines from Boeing and Airbus in what it touted as the as the biggest single order ever placed by a European airline
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匈牙利国家航空公司MALEV宣布自2月3日晨起停止一切飞行
（飞行了66年的航空公司）
坐在布鲁塞尔欧盟总部里面的大脑袋们要求匈航退回本国政府
2007－2010年间给予的财政补贴款( 总共1.3亿欧团，这个
数字是MALEV2010的毛收入)。这一提案的通过很快就逼迫
MALEV步入了破产的边缘。
目前，匈牙利航空公司95%的股份由国家持有，其余5%由一家
俄罗斯银行持有。匈牙利政府于2010年收购了匈牙利航空公司95%的股份，重新将其国有化，目的在于防止其宣告破产。
欧洲第二大的廉价航空公司Easyjet在匈航宣布停飞后立即承诺，
其往返布达佩斯的航班推出一周特价，对持有停飞匈航航班票联的旅客一律只收取每程70欧元的费用。柏林航空的一周特价更是达到了每单程仅收取49欧元。
Malev 一经倒闭，人们认为匈牙利会跟斯洛伐克一样，主要成为廉价航空公司（LCC）的市场。
在Malev破产之前，它的北方邻国斯洛伐克的LCC航班量占其航班总量的79%以上，而在匈牙利只占24%；但一夜之间，这一数字便飙升到了40%。
Ryanair计划从本月17日起把布达佩斯作为一个新的飞行基地，先期安置四架波音B737-800,执飞31个目的地，计划在年内达到输送200万旅客的运力。但能提振东欧国家老旧的航空公司士气的迹象实在不多
Hungarian airline Malev collapses
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The Hungarian national airline Malev has folded after its financial
situation became unsustainable.
"At 0500 GMT... after 66 years of almost continuous operation Malev will no longer take off," it said.
It came after the European Commission ordered Malev to repay various forms of state aid received from 2007 to 2010.
The sums involved amounted to 38 billion forints (130m euros; $171m; ￡108m), a sum equal to its entire 2010 revenue. "Despite its best interests the owner can no longer provide financial resources for the operation of the airline in the wake of the condemning decision of the European Commission," an airline statement said.
The European Consumer Organisation, which "defends the interests of all Europe's consumers", said the news came after Spanair's collapse in the very same week.
"This development is yet more incontrovertible proof that the current update of European legislation on air travel must incorporate a mandatory guarantee against airline bankruptcies," it said.
'Inherited skeletons'
The carrier employs 2,600 people and is responsible for close to half of all air traffic at Budapest Liszt Ferenc airport.
Part of the Oneworld airline alliance, which also includes American Airlines and British Airways, Malev has a leased fleet of 22 passenger aircraft.
In 2010 it posted a loss of 24.6bn forints, although an improved 2011 figure had been predicted.
Chief executive Lorant Limburger said the immediate reason for the collapse was the demand for upfront payments by its suppliers. Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on state radio that two Malev planes were still overseas, one in Tel Aviv, the other in the Irish Republic.
The premier said those planes were not allowed to take off because of Malev's debts.
He told radio station MR1-Kossuth that Malev may possibly be relaunched "if we manage to get rid of the inherited skeletons".
On Thursday, Hungary's government appointed a receiver to the airline to try to protect it from creditors' claims.
Hungarian newswire MTI had said that 64 Malev flights were