SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), February 4 (SeeNews) – Bosnia's directorate of civil aviation, BHDCA, said on Wednesday it has suspended the approval for Sarajevo-Athens flights of Greece’s Hermes Airlines.
In Bosnia, the Greek carrier operates through a local partner, the newly established Bosnian Wand Airlines.
“The reason for the suspension of the flight approval is that the BHDCA asked Hermes Airlines to provide it with a cooperation contract with Bosnian Wand Airlines, which they failed to do,” BHDCA said in statement emailed to SeeNews.
The directorate also said it had not received from Bosnian Wand Airlines any clearance requests to conduct flights.
Bosnian Wand Airlines had said it was set to launch flights from Sarajevo to Amsterdam on January 9 while also planning to offer flights from Sarajevo to Athens, Gothenburg and Stockholm. The start-up airline, set up in June in Zivinice, had said it has a fleet of two aircraft, an Airbus A320 and an Airbus A321.
Also in January, BHDCA said on its website that Bosnian Wand Airlines has not been issued an air operator certificate which would allow it to use aircraft for commercial purposes.