Yesterday Qatar backed Air Italy has reported that the flights will have been stopped due to liquidation..
One day later, One of the Turkish Major Airlines, Atlas Global reported that staff has been asked not to come into work tomorrow.
Breaking news out of Turkey this afternoon as several local media outlets have suggested that the airline has filed for bankruptcy. AtlasGlobal has suffered some significant financial difficulty in recent months, and now it seems it’s coming to an end.
Turkish airline AtlasGlobal İS ABOUT TO declare bankruptcy over cash flow issues caused by last year’s move to the new Istanbul Airport,
“Atlasglobal has stopped all flight operations and is preparing to file for bankruptcy. It was learned that a meeting was held with personnel at Atlasglobal and that they were notified to not come to work from tomorrow,” Airport Haber said.
Turkish budget carrier on Nov. 27 suspended all flights partly due to rising expenses at the airport is prompting other companies to demand cost cuts.
Airlines were being hurt financially because of the expense of transporting cargo to and from the airport, which is being carried exclusively in passenger planes, according to the head of the Association of International Forwarding and Logistics Service Providers (UTIKAD).
Istanbul Airport opened to much public fanfare just over a year ago.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has heralded its arrival as a reflection of Turkey’s emerging global power – he says the facility will be the world’s largest once all construction phases are complete. But the airport has been beset with teething problems, most notably by inadequate transport infrastructure and alleged financial troubles at operating company IGA, which is seeking to restructure billions of dollars in debt.
