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PSKOV, March 23. /TASS/. Federal agency air transport(Rosaviation) extended flight certificate airline "Pskovavia", TASS reported on Friday and. O. Chairman of the Pskov Region State Committee for Transport Igor Silchenkov.

Previously regional authorities assessed the situation at Pskovavia as very difficult and reported that regional budget it is necessary to allocate from 6 million to 10 million rubles monthly so that the company does not lose its flight certificate and does not become bankrupt.

“Rosaviatsiya extended the flight certificate of Pskovavia. In any case, for us this means that the enterprise can function, now it will be possible to hold a competition to attract an investor to sell shares. If the certificate were revoked, bankruptcy proceedings would begin,” Silchenkov explained.

Pskovavia's flight certificate expired at the beginning of current week. To preserve the operator’s certificate, the administration of the Pskov region took several measures, including repaying part of the debt obligations to aircraft lessors, and appealed to the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency with a request to renew the certificate.

According to the press service of the regional administration, this issue was discussed by the acting governor of the Pskov region, Mikhail Vedernikov, and the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neradko, on Thursday at a working meeting. “Neradko positively assessed the efforts of the administration of the Pskov region to bring Pskovavia out of the crisis and said that the flight certificate would not be revoked,” the press service of the regional administration said.

Debts at Pskovavia

Pskovavia was transferred from the administration of the Pskov region Federal agency on management state property Russian Federation and incorporated in 2014. The airline is the main operator of Pskov airport, using An-24, An-26, An-26 BRL aircraft and a Robinson R-44 helicopter. The company employs more than 250 people.

In January, the Investigative Committee opened a case over non-payment of salaries to airline employees in the amount of 2.5 million rubles; last year, the prosecutor’s office dealt with similar violations in the amount of 8 and 9 million rubles. TASS airline reported that Pskovavia has debts to other organizations, and the air carrier’s employees wrote open letter to the acting governor with a request to prevent the bankruptcy of the enterprise.

On behalf of Acting Governor Mikhail Vedernikov, the board of directors was re-elected joint stock company, developed a “road map” for stabilizing the enterprise, and also established maximum control over its financial and economic activities. Subsidies were allocated from the regional budget to pay off wage arrears to airline employees, as well as lessors aircraft for a total of 37 million rubles. In addition, we took measures to improve the financial recovery of Pskovavia, including through optimization wages management team, reduction in rental payments.

The Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation) has extended the flight certificate of the Pskovavia airline, TASS reported on Friday and. O. Chairman of the Pskov Region State Committee for Transport Igor Silchenkov.

Previously, regional authorities assessed the situation at Pskovavia as very difficult and reported that they had to allocate from 6 million to 10 million rubles monthly from the regional budget so that the company does not lose its flight certificate and does not become bankrupt.

Pskovavia's flight certificate expired at the beginning of this week. To preserve the operator’s certificate, the administration of the Pskov region took several measures, including repaying part of the debt obligations to aircraft lessors, and appealed to the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency with a request to renew the certificate.

Debts at Pskovavia

Pskovavia was transferred to the administration of the Pskov region from the Federal Agency for State Property Management of the Russian Federation and was incorporated in 2014. The airline is the main operator of Pskov airport, using An-24, An-26, An-26 BRL aircraft and a Robinson R-44 helicopter. The company employs more than 250 people.

In January, the Investigative Committee opened a case over non-payment of salaries to airline employees in the amount of 2.5 million rubles; last year the prosecutor’s office dealt with similar violations in the amount of 8 and 9 million rubles. TASS airline reported that Pskovavia has debts to other organizations, and the air carrier's employees wrote an open letter to the acting governor asking him to prevent the company from going bankrupt.

On behalf of Acting Governor Mikhail Vedernikov, the board of directors of the joint-stock company was re-elected, a “road map” was developed for stabilizing the enterprise, and also established maximum control over its financial and economic activities. Subsidies were allocated from the regional budget to pay off wage arrears to airline employees, as well as aircraft lessors, in a total amount of 37 million rubles. In addition, measures were taken to improve the financial health of Pskovavia, including by optimizing the salaries of management personnel and reducing rental payments.

The prospects for the regional carrier Pskovavia looked promising. In 2014, it became the property of the Pskov region and by 2020 it was planned to raise 1.2 billion rubles within the framework of a public-private partnership for a large-scale reconstruction of the Pskov airport and other property of the air carrier, and at the end of 2013 to lease two Bombardier CRJ- aircraft 200 instead of the old An-24. The reconstruction of the runway was about to begin.

Nothing of this came of it in the end; moreover, over the course of three years, the Pskov airline business not only received a kind of yellow card, an order to limit the validity of the operator from the Federal Air Transport Agency, but also came to the brink of bankruptcy due to the claim of the Nizhny Novgorod company KAS-AIR.

On March 3, KAS AIR LLC contacted Arbitration court Pskov region with a demand to declare Pskovavia OJSC bankrupt. The materials were published on the court's website.

The application was accepted for processing. Court hearing to verify the validity of the creditor's application is scheduled for April 13.

We would like to remind you that Pskovavia Airlines is the main operator of Pskov Kresty Airport, performing regular and charter passenger and cargo transportation using An-24, An-26 aircraft, and a Robinson R-44 helicopter.

The company's aircraft make regular flights from Pskov to Moscow and St. Petersburg, from St. Petersburg to Apatity, Bryansk, Vladimir, Kursk, Kotlas, as well as from Arkhangelsk to Yaroslavl.

It is not known exactly when the company acquired its first debts to the airports of these cities, but in three years the air carrier has accumulated more than enough of them: about 250 million rubles.

Earlier, in November 2016, the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation) conducted an unscheduled inspection of the activities of Pskovavia after on September 27, 2016, a Moscow-Pskov flight skidded off the runway when braking. There were 30 passengers on board, none of them were injured. The agency then limited the validity of the airline's certificate.

The result of the inspection was an order signed by the head of the federal agency, Alexander Neradko: to limit the validity of the Pskovavia operator’s certificate on December 7, then five days before the “X-hour” the validity of the certificate was extended until January 31, 2017.

And on February 8, 2017, the restriction on the validity period of the operator’s certificate of the Pskovavia airline was lifted.

Pskovavia, one might say, was pardoned, because the day before, the Federal Air Transport Agency took away the license from two airlines at once.

By Order of the Federal Air Transport Agency dated 02/07/2017 N80-P, the operator certificate of the Buryat Airlines airline was canceled.

By Order of the Federal Air Transport Agency dated 02/07/2017 N79-P, the operator certificate of Pioneer Regional Airlines was cancelled.

Revoked air operator certificates will not be reinstated.

Now the Pskov company will either have to urgently find money to repay its debts to the Nizhny Novgorod enterprise, or go bankrupt. On the one hand, bankruptcy does not mean liquidation legal entity, and the organization will be able to carry out its activities. On the other hand, the court will collect the debt, for example, through the sale of one of the company’s aircraft.

Previously, regional authorities assessed the situation at Pskovavia as very difficult and reported that from the regional budget it is necessary to allocate from 6 million to 10 million rubles monthly so that the company does not lose its flight certificate and does not become bankrupt.

According to the press service of the regional administration, this issue was discussed by the acting governor of the Pskov region, Mikhail Vedernikov, and the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neradko, on Thursday at a working meeting. “Neradko positively assessed the efforts of the administration of the Pskov region to bring Pskovavia out of the crisis and said that the flight certificate would not be revoked,” said the press service of the regional administration.

Debts at Pskovavia

In January, the Investigative Committee opened a case regarding non-payment of salaries to airline employees in the amount of 2.5 million rubles; last year, the prosecutor’s office dealt with similar violations in the amount of 8 and 9 million rubles. TASS airline reported that Pskovavia has debts to other organizations, and the air carrier’s employees wrote an open letter to the acting governor asking him to prevent the company from going bankrupt.

On behalf of Acting Governor Mikhail Vedernikov, the board of directors of the joint-stock company was re-elected, a “road map” was developed for stabilizing the enterprise, and also established maximum control over its financial and economic activities. Subsidies were allocated from the regional budget to pay off wage arrears to airline employees, as well as aircraft lessors, in a total amount of 37 million rubles. In addition, measures were taken to improve the financial recovery of Pskovavia, including by optimizing the salaries of management personnel and reducing rental payments.

Last week, Siversky Airport won the competition of the Pskov regional administration. Another contender for the acquisition of the asset was also Dmitry Nikitin’s company -. There were no contenders other than Eurosib structures. The cost of the transaction was 55 million rubles, 6 million more than the initial price of the competition. The remaining share - 25% plus one share - will still belong to the Pskov region.

The regional administration decided to take this step in order to attract more than 1.2 billion rubles to local air traffic by 2020, as previously reported in the media. However, the Transport Committee of the Pskov Region did not comment on this figure.

As the Eurosib company told DP, first of all a long-term development program will be developed in two directions - the airport and the air carrier. The program will be presented general meeting shareholders. “After its approval, it will be possible to talk about specifics - funds raised and other points for the development of the airline and the airport,” the company emphasized.

According to the terms of the competition, the investor will have to reconstruct the airport and update the airline's fleet.

Other conditions include retraining and advanced training of enterprise employees and a ban on changing the purpose of enterprise facilities. The number of employees of Pskovavia OJSC in 2017 was 264 people.

The deadline for fulfilling the terms of the competition is 1 year. The Pskov region, as the owner of the stake, will also accept Active participation in the development of the enterprise, according to official documents.

There were many attempts to establish regular flights with Pskov. 8 years ago, the Latvian airline AirBaltic launched the Pskov - flight. However, the flights were soon discontinued due to low passenger traffic.

It also tried to launch flights to Pskov more than once without much success.

In 2013, regional authorities wanted to create an interregional airline in the Northwestern Federal District on the basis of Pskovavia, but the idea was never realized. Last years The carrier is experiencing a crisis. At the end of 2017, the loss of Pskovavia, according to SPARK, amounted to 98 million rubles with revenue of 271 million rubles.

Currently, flights from Pskov (both domestic and international) are operated by Azimut Airlines. Since the beginning of October, the carrier has launched regular flights between Kresta airport and Moscow Vnukovo. As Boris Rybak, general director of the consulting company Infomost, notes, despite the emergence of a new co-owner of Pskovavia, there are not many chances for the successful development of the Pskov airport.

“Large airlines have already tried all possible combinations. If some routes are not available, the fault is not with some evil carriers, but with reality - that is, the lack of necessary passenger traffic,” the expert emphasized. At the same time, as Fyodor Borisov, a leading researcher at the Institute of Transport and Transport Policy, notes, the situation with the Pskov airport does not mean that Pskovavia cannot develop simply as an airline.

In parallel with Pskov, Eurosib begins the development of an airport in Siverskaya in Leningrad region. The company emphasizes that these are two separate projects.

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