Wizz Air (W6, Budapest) and Ryanair (FR, Dublin International) operations out of Hamburg Luebeck, near Hamburg, Germany, are increasingly uncertain after the airport's holding company, Flughafen Lübeck GmbH, filed for insolvency late last week.
German media report that a local court has now appointed an interim administrator who will allow the airfield to continue to operate while possible strategies are considered.
As previously reported by ch-aviation, Egyptian businessman, Mohamad Rady Amar, through his logistics and project management firm, 3Y Logistic und Projektbetreuung GmbH, acquired the facility for the symbolic price of just €1 in 2012 with promises of turning it into the largest airport in the Federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.
However, two years on, nothing has been done with Amar having now been dismissed from the post of Managing Director in March. As a result, all and any financial assistance to Lübeck airport has now been withdrawn. To further exacerbate matters, the airport said in a statement that neither the management nor politicians involved in the project have been able to contact either the newly appointed MD, Adam Wagner, or his proxy, Michael Glück.
