Aerosvit went bankrupt - and chabadnikim stuck in Kiev

A large group of Chabad chassidim returning from the tzion of the Rebbe in Haditch, were left stranded at the airport in Kiev. This came following the airports refusal to allow the aircrafts of the Aerosvit Company to use their airport service due to debts.


The Aerosvit airline faced a financial crisis and a few days ago began the process of bankruptcy and receivership. A number of airports in Ukraine have banned it from using their services.


The company will eventually move to the ownership of another Ukrainian airline. The Ukrainian company operated the center line of regular flights to Kiev and from Ben Gurion Airport and vice versa.

"We arrived at the airport," said Nariya Amitai, a Chabad chassid who got stuck at the airport in a conversation with B'Chadrei Charedim. "They rejected us again and again, till we understood that they are just keeping us waiting for no reason and they then indeed informed us that the flight was canceled completely."


Amitai said that "some people received from their travel agencies a hotel and restaurant meals, but others were left without even a solution or an alternative - and at this point they are forced to stay at the airport."


"There is no solution, our families are in Israel and we were supposed to get there tonight, they are a little worried. We are doing all we can."

Some of the passengers were angry at the airline. "We heard the company is in crisis," they say. "But we did not imagine it could affect one way or another on regular flights which have already been determined in advance."


Concern is that because of the weather they will be forced stay at least two days in Kiev.

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!