Skavsta Airport was threatened with bankruptcy as recently as early March, according to what the CEO told the media at the time. Now they are announcing several new destinations for the summer.

In early March, the CEO of Skavsta Airport stated that bankruptcy was "just weeks away" if the pandemic-ravaged business did not receive support from co-owner Nyköping Municipality.

Now the airport seems to have found a way out. A press release on Tuesday mentions that an expanded summer program with new destinations is being prepared.

The two airlines flying from Skavsta, Wizz Air and Ryanair, are reported to be serving 14 and 13 destinations respectively this summer.

The three destinations designated as "new summer destinations" are Croatian Zadar (which in the same press release is referred to as a "recently launched reopening"), Latvian capital Riga and Albanian capital Tirana.

Skavsta Airport is owned by French Vinci Airports to 90.1 percent, and by Nyköping Municipality to 9.9 percent. Vinci Airports operates 45 airports in twelve countries in Europe, Asia and America, and is a division of the Paris-listed infrastructure giant Vinci.

Lena Josefsson, press manager at Skavsta, tells Di that the airport "has not yet" received any support, either from the state or the municipality.

”"Stockholm Skavsta Airport and the shareholders have strong confidence in the airport's future. The state has not yet provided any direct support to Skavsta due to the effects of the pandemic," she writes in an email.

Did you receive any support from Nyköping Municipality?

”"Not yet, we are working together with Vinci Airports and Nyköping Municipality to find a sustainable solution to the situation."”

Source: di.se