Regional airline denies bankruptcy rumors, asks government for help
The airline mentioned what it claimed are 'circulating rumors' about its finances.
Given the extremely excessive fee of operations, smaller airlines serving reveal markets periodically plod bankrupt.
Air Belgium and Silver Airways were amongst the carriers that shut down operations in 2025, while the most excessive-profile turnaround of the year became Florida-based Spirit Airways (SAVE) .
After asserting that it became submitting for chapter in November 2024, the funds airline emerged from it by the spring by going non-public and handing over administration to a community of its most tasty bondholders.
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Libyan Airways continues to negate war-torn nation
In rather a couple of aspects of the enviornment, flag service Libyan Airways has been denying chapter rumors and claiming that flights are going on as scheduled.
The Center Jap airline serving the nation whereby the United States has conducted multiple militia interventions within the 2010s became launched in 1965 and has in fresh years been operating flights out of Mitiga Global Airport (MJI) within the nation's capital.
Tripoli Global Airport (TIP) has been closed since 2014 amid persisted civil unrest that followed the toppling and execution of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The airport became heavily bombed in 2014 as a community of Islamist militias tried to rob administration from Libya's Dwelling of Representatives.
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As reported by native records stores Libyan Particular and The Libya Observer, the service is currently going thru most famous monetary and technical challenges, but its representatives yell that chapter is on the horizon as they gaze the hot government's assistance in reviving the war-torn nation's most most famous airline.
On May 20, Tripoli Global Airport reopened to sure non-public and ambulatory flights because the internationally-identified government fashioned in 2021 evaluates which of the runways stay usable.
Despite periodic stops and begins, Libyan and world airlines periodically bustle flights from Tripoli to Egypt, Tunisia, and Türkiye. Image source: Shutterstock
Libyan Airways promises 'unwavering dedication to restructuring and rejuvenating the airline'
"Company spokesperson Ahmed Al-Taira emphasized the administration's unwavering dedication to restructuring and rejuvenating the airline," Libyan Particular reports.
"He also issued an urgent enchantment to the Libyan government and linked authorities, urging them to offer the famous toughen required to safeguard this severe national establishment."
Al-Taira additional talked about that the airline has obtained nearly no government assistance after sustaining large injury to its quick following the battling for Tripoli Airport — any flights bustle by Libyan Airways were accomplished on the two planes that remained unscathed at some stage within the second civil war.
Whereas a ceasefire became lastly reached in 2020, periodic strikes between warring militia groups proceed to interrupt out.
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Despite the severe monetary disaster faced by the airline, its persisted operations became a rare symbol of solidarity in a nation roiled by extended civil battle.
It has also served as a key connector to the nation that sees very restricted service from world airlines (Turkish Airways and Italy's ITA Airways are amongst these operating sure flights to Libya).
"Earlier on Wednesday [July 2], Libyan Airways' leadership issued a comprehensive statement outlining the foundation causes of the continued disaster," Libyan Particular reported additional.
"The company has faced delayed salary funds and the suspension of rather a couple of employee advantages — conditions that administration described as largely past their administration."
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