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“Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the implementation of the agreement is affected by circumstances of force majeure, so the agreement is not being fully implemented,” Novaturas reported.
In the event of legal uncertainty between the companies regarding the obligations, Novaturas initiated a legal dispute and asks the court to establish that the company could not book all the flights under the contract precisely due to force majeure circumstances. In this way, the company hopes to avoid possible penalties that GetJet may calculate.
Tomas Staškūnas, the company’s chief financial officer, said the court accepted the company’s claim on Thursday, but did not mention what volumes of flights were foreseen in the contract and how many were not carried out.
“We have a contract that stipulates the volumes, they were delivered at the time of signing the contract, without knowing of pandemics, two years ago. At the time it was not even thought that such a thing could be, so those sanctions are related to volumes not fulfilled ”, he told BNS.
“There will be a dispute that will probably be resolved in court and I will not be able to say how big it will be or not,” added T. Staškūnas.
In its action before the Vilnius Regional Court, the company also requests that the contract be modified so that its terms correspond to the substantially changed circumstances, reducing the volume of planned flights.
Novaturo’s turnover in January-October decreased by 80% compared to last year. up to 32 million in October alone, when it flew to the resorts of Cyprus and Crete, 91%. up to 1.9 million euros. The company served 82 percent this year. fewer customers last year and 90 percent in October alone. Less.
After the pandemic hit the entire aviation sector hard, GetJet acknowledged in the spring that the restrictions had paralyzed the company’s operations. Its shareholders decided last week to close the 3 million. increase share capital. GetJet has reduced the number of employees from 392 in February to 38 today.
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