Cirrus suspends operations: More news?

[EDDNHopper]

Any more info after Cirrus Airlines suspension of flight ops?

Nothing on their website.

[mrloop]

Several German news sites are quoting a DPA report e.g. aero.de - Luftfahrt-Nachrichten und -Community (http://www.aero.de/news-14305/Cirrus-Airlines-stoppt-Flugbetrieb.html)

Google translation of part of the report:

Saarbrücken - Saarbrücken airline Cirrus Airlines has suspended its operations for economic reasons first. The talks on the future of the company persisted, Managing Director Ingrid Schultheis said on Sunday.

Possibly results would be announced on Monday. The flight operation is limited since Friday evening to set the end of next week, passengers would be rebooked. The approximately 300 employees of Cirrus therefore continue to work at first.

[virginblue]

My understanding is that the move came after take-over talks with Skywork failed last week and the owner decided to not pour any more money into the airline (which is only part of a larger group of aviation-related companies). The official line after the failed talks with Skywork was that both airlines had only been talking about a maintenance co-operation.

Apparently Cirrus is not insolvent, but has simply stopped operating. The CEO is being quoted that the suspension is only temporarily for next week, but realistically, who has seen a troubled airline resuming flights within a week of stopping all operations?

German message boards report that most Dorniers have been flown to the airlines maintenance base at Saarbrücken. Some suggest that some aircraft will be moved to the Cirrus Group's charter arm to offer Suckling-style ACMI-/charter operations in the future.

[harriewillem]

If your flying 10 TP 328 en one E-jet. 300 people is a lot of mouths to feed on such small capacity.

Hope they can restructure, but onces services are suspended it's hard to win confedence back!

[PenTito]

And Darwin: 6 SB20 and 2 Q400 for 220 employed?

[BISH-BASH-BOSH]

Cirrus have entered bankrupcy, this afternoon, a liquidator will be appointed by the courts in the morning, good luck to those involved.

[JSCL]

Wonder if this will have knock on effect on Augsburg?

[EDDNHopper]

JSCL, in what ways? Can you eloborate?

[JSCL]

EDDNHopper,

I was of the opinion that Augsburg was owned by Cirrus....

[EDDNHopper]

To my knowledge that is no longer the case. But I can't vouch on that...

[Denti]

Indeed Augsburg and Cirrus at one point belonged to the same airline group, however Cirrus was sold back to the original owner while Augsburg is still owned by ATON, same as DC Aviation which was build out of the former daimler chrysler flight ops and the Cirrus business aviation arm.

Sad days for all Cirrus employees, hope they find another job soon.

[Cloud1]

One of their Embraers has been at Exeter for quite some time now - was this scheduled maintenance or intended storage. Will it now be impounded or positioned elsewhere?