the Airline Great Dane Airlines have flown through some turbulence in the company’s first months of life, and now there is again changed ownership.
The north wealthy Eigild B. Christensen now owns 90 percent of the company. It happens after the Aalborg-based airline emergency has been in need of more money.
– We have used the capital we had, so we have to shoot the new capital, he says to Ekstra Bladet.
After rigmandens capital owns Great Dane Airlines founder and executive director, Thomas Hugo Mills, only 10 % of the company. Photo: Ernst van Norde
Therefore he has just posted 10.5 million dollars more into the company. It has made managing director Thomas Hugo Moller for minoritetsejer in the company he founded in February of this year.
– I do not actually want to own 90 percent, but with the speed it should go in, so we would not stand in the lack of money, so it was how it was right now. Thomas will get an opportunity later to come up in interest once again, promising Eigild B. Christensen.
When the airline went on the wings in June, they offered besides charter trips are also scheduled flights to Nice, Dublin and Edinburgh, and it has been a mistake.
– We have used the money to start up with the scheduled flights, and it did not prove to be very wise. We have lost money on, beats Eigild B. Christensen real.
Therefore the rates they are now mainly on charter flights, where tourism operators take the greatest share of the risk of empty seats. Moreover, the owner also has a business in so-called ad-hoc flights.
– It is, for example, when a football club needs to rent a plane, so we are coming to that. We have already flown for Brøndby IF, he explains.
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Svipseren with ruteflyvningerne it is not the only item that has cost him dearly for the start-up company.
– It costs money to start an airline. There needs to be some organization, and the costs to build from the bottom up, says Eigild B. Christensen.
– But had thought that would make the deficit here in the first financial year?
– Yes, it is entirely expected, but it will be a little larger than we had anticipated.
– How large are your losses in a year?
– The I dare not express an opinion on yet. I need to see the numbers first, but it will be a nice one, says rigmanden with a good portion of the north self-deprecation.
In spite of the red numbers on the bottom mean Eigild B. Christensen still, that is flying high for the Great Dane Airlines.
– I can still see it as a good idea and a good business with local jobs. We already have over 50 staff now, and with the two new aircraft, we get, we come up on about 100, he says.
Already in next week arrives that another aircraft, and in april, the fleet count four aeroplanes in total. Great Dane Airlines do not own aircraft itself, but lease them from another of Eigild. B. Christensen companies – SEBC Aviation Leasing ApS.
Rigmanden bought into the Great Dane Airlines, as the one of the company’s two founders Duc Huy Nguyen withdrew from the management, after it was revealed that he had tampered with her RESUME.
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