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New Estonian state-owned aviation company to be headed by Infortar's CEO

BC, Tallinn, 09.10.2015.Print version
The new Estonian state-owned aviation company Nordic Aviation Group will be developed and managed by the current CEO of Infortar, owner company of Estonia's biggest passenger shipping company Tallink, which has shown interest in the past in buying the current national airline Estonian Air, LETA/Äripäev.ee reports.

The other members of board that have been appointed are AS Tallinn Airport board member and marketing manager Erik Sakkov and Ahto Pärl, who managed publishing house Vaba Maa, which belongs also to Infortar.

 

"Infortar's people have long worked with the Estonian Air project and they have a large enough experience. Since we have a plan B situation and we are rather in a hurry, and we need people who are familiar with the matter, then we just looked them up," explained the company's newly appointed chairman of the council Peter Tohver how people were found for the board.

 

Tohver said that the first task of the board is to create a functioning company and to draw up a business plan.

 

"Ultimately, the aim of the council and everyone else it is that we would be able to travel and fly from Tallinn and to do business normally, and that of our national airline would not disappear anywhere. I hope that this decision does not need to need to be made, but it's not in our hands," he said.

 

Tohver did not consider it likely that the Nordic Aviation could operate parallel with Estonian Air. "It does not make any sense," he said.

 

The Estonian government created AS Nordic Aviation Group recently to take over the business of the current national carrier Estonian Air, in case the European Commission declares the state aid granted to the airline in the past as forbidden. The European Commission decision has been expected for years but no indication has been given on when it could come.






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