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May 7, 2012 (newstodate): As Cimber Sterling filed for bankruptcy on May 3, 2012, the Danish aviation scene is flying in strong turbulence.
Several companies have rushed in to to fill the void after Cimber Sterling's grounding, securing continued services on Danish domestic routes and offering capacity to support charter customers that had contracted Cimber Sterling for air services.
First out was the Danish carrier DAT that took over the services on routes between Copenhagen Airport and domestic destinations Ronne, on the island of Bornholm, and Sonderburg, in southern Denmark.
SAS decided to throw in more seat capacity on the routes between Copenhagen Airport and the domestic destinations Aalborg and Aarhus, and later also secured an agreement with the legal authority dealing with Cimber Sterling's bankruptcy for a 12 days prolongation of the contract for operations of four Cimber Sterling CRJ900 aircraft used on routes to destinations in North and East Europe.
Norwegian is also moving, taking over Cimber Sterling's route between Copenhagen and Danish domestic destination Karup Airport that it eaerlier served in competition to Cimber Sterling before throwing in the towel in October 2011.
On the charter side, one carrier stepping in to take over parts of Cimber Sterling's contracts is the Danish charter and ACMI carrier Jet Time.
Expectations are that healthy parts of Cimber Sterling will soon be acquired by other parties including either FlybeNordic or Skyways that shared ownership with Cimber Sterling.
Several companies have rushed in to to fill the void after Cimber Sterling's grounding, securing continued services on Danish domestic routes and offering capacity to support charter customers that had contracted Cimber Sterling for air services.
First out was the Danish carrier DAT that took over the services on routes between Copenhagen Airport and domestic destinations Ronne, on the island of Bornholm, and Sonderburg, in southern Denmark.
SAS decided to throw in more seat capacity on the routes between Copenhagen Airport and the domestic destinations Aalborg and Aarhus, and later also secured an agreement with the legal authority dealing with Cimber Sterling's bankruptcy for a 12 days prolongation of the contract for operations of four Cimber Sterling CRJ900 aircraft used on routes to destinations in North and East Europe.
Norwegian is also moving, taking over Cimber Sterling's route between Copenhagen and Danish domestic destination Karup Airport that it eaerlier served in competition to Cimber Sterling before throwing in the towel in October 2011.
On the charter side, one carrier stepping in to take over parts of Cimber Sterling's contracts is the Danish charter and ACMI carrier Jet Time.
Expectations are that healthy parts of Cimber Sterling will soon be acquired by other parties including either FlybeNordic or Skyways that shared ownership with Cimber Sterling.