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Flights to and from Denmark affected by Frankfurt climate demonstration

Some flights to and from Denmark were on Thursday morning affected by a climate demonstration which temporary suspended all departures at Frankfurt Airport.

Published: 25 July 2024 10:29 CEST
Flights to and from Denmark affected by Frankfurt climate demonstration
A display shows cancelled flights on the day activists of the "Letzte Generation" (Last Generation) staged a demonstration near the runways at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany July 25, 2024. Photo: Timm Reichert/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix

Three flights were scheduled to leave Copenhagen for Frankfurt on Thursday, of which one had been cancelled by 8am, broadcaster DR reported.

Two incoming flights from Frankfurt on Thursday are cancelled, the Copenhagen Airport website states at the time of writing.

One flight to Frankfurt was cancelled at Billund Airport in central Jutland, with one of the four arrivals at Billund from Frankfurt cancelled so far.

Frankfurt airport, Germany’s busiest, was forced on Thursday to temporarily suspend arrivals and departuresafter environmental activists forced their way into the apron.

Traffic was halted during the busy summer holiday season for two hours before the first of the airport’s landing runways was able to operate again at 5:02am, said a spokesman at the airport.

A departures runway reopened shortly afterwards, said the spokesman, with a second to follow imminently.

Passengers were advised to check the status of their flights while the airport ramps up its operations again.

Police had said earlier that they “doing everything” to get the protesters off the tarmac.

According to climate activist group Letzte Generation (Last Generation), six of its members had used pincers to cut openings in the wire fence before making their way “by foot, with bicycles and skateboards to different points around the runways”.

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SAS

Airline SAS announces end of restructuring and leaves bankruptcy protection

Scandinavian airline SAS is no longer undergoing a bankruptcy protection process which has overshadowed the company for two years.

Published: 28 August 2024 10:16 CEST
Airline SAS announces end of restructuring and leaves bankruptcy protection

Airline SAS said on Tuesday its immediate future was secure and confirmed the appointment of a new board.

In a statement, the company said it had emerged from the restructuring process as a “a competitive and financially robust airline with a strengthened capital structure”.

Since 2022, SAS has been embroiled in a bankruptcy protection (Chapter 11) process in the United States, obliging the company to report accounting figures each month.

The airline’s new principal owners are Castlelake, Air France-KLM, Lind Invest and the Danish State, with the new chairman of the board named as Kåre Schultz, whose CV includes a spell as deputy CEO with pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk.

The airline’s restructuring has meanwhile involved a move from the Star Alliance to SkyTeam code-sharing network.

READ ALSO: EXPLAINED: How SAS’s decision to switch airline alliance will affect travellers

“SAS has done a truly impressive job in navigating through the restructuring proceedings, and in building a competitive business positioned for growth,” Schultz said in the statement. 

“Together with SAS’ new investors, board and management, as well as with our partners in the SkyTeam alliance, we will continue to collaborate with partners and customers to drive transformative changes in aviation,” he said.

The end of the bankruptcy protection procedure had been expected. SAS previously announced it would see the process through by the end of this summer, and the company was delisted from the stock exchange on August 13th.

The airline’s corporate restructuring has been approved by the United States and the EU as well as the Swedish legal system.

Some 1.2 billion dollars have been injected into the company by its new owners.

SAS can now begin to focus its efforts elsewhere, aviation analyst Jacob Pedersen of Danish bank Sydbank said in a comment to the Ritzau newswire.

“After a big rescue operation, SAS is now in a significantly better financial position,” he said.

“The company has far less debt, far lower costs, and more money in its coffers from the new ownership group,” he said.

Schultz’ first and most important task will be to plan the airline’s future growth, Pedersen added.

“SAS has almost permanently shrunk during the last 20 years, but we are likely to now see a SAS with more of an appetite for growth,” he said.

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