Bucharest’s Baneasa Airport Allows One Sky Europe Plane To Take Off To Vienna

The airplane reached Baneasa airport on Tuesday and was due to take off Tuesday evening.

 

The same sources said another Sky Europe airplane was due to land on Baneasa airport at 9:50 a.m., but it subsequently delayed its landing to around 11:45 and then canceled the flight to capital city Bucharest.

 

Transport Ministry state secretary Marin Anton said earlier Wednesday that two Sky Europe airplanes are being kept grounded on Baneasa airport over a debt of EUR529,000.

 

Anton made this statement before it was announced that one of the two airplanes would no longer land in Bucharest.

 

Anton also said Wednesday the planes were kept grounded to prompt the company to pay its debts to the airport, but since the court ruling grants Sky Europe protection under the bankruptcy law, Romanian authorities want to receive at least the flight taxes the airliner owes.

 

"We’ve grounded the planes to make them pay their debts, but when we heard about the ruling of the Slovak court, which I’m still analyzing, we’re asking the company to at least pay us the taxes due for the flight on Tuesday night and two flights on Wednesday. The planes aren’t going anywhere until they pay these taxes. I’m following legal procedure,” Anton said, adding the measures taken by the airport are in accordance with the Air Code.

 

Aviation specialist Sorin Stoicescu told MEDIAFAX Wednesday that the airport needs a court ruling to impound the airliner’s assets.