Airline Air Belgium declared bankrupt, passengers are not reimbursed
© Belga
The chance is very small that the around 10,500 passengers who still had a flight ticket when Air Belgium stopped his passenger flights will still get their money back. That turned out on Wednesday, after the airline Air Belgium has been declared bankrupt.
« The remaining debts, such as the airline tickets that have not yet been repaid, are now part of the claims that fall under the authority of the curator, » the airline told Belga on Wednesday. She herself is no longer able to repay the tickets. It concerns around 10,500 tickets that were paid for travel to South Africa and Mauritius after 3 October 2023, when Air Belgium stopped the passenger activities.
It was officially announced on Wednesday that the French logistics group CMA CGM will take over the cargo activities from Air Belgium. The Air Belgium NV company was declared bankrupt by the Walloon Brabant corporate court in the course of the morning.
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The airline Air Agency of Air Belgium, based in Walloon Brabant, was founded in 2016 and initially started with passenger flights. In September 2023 she announced that she stopped her passenger flights, to South Africa and Mauritius because those operations were « chronically loss-making ». Air Belgium was then placed in a judicial reorganization and then in transfer under judicial authority.
