Air Serbia announced that it has paid all its remaining obligations to EA Partners in the amount of 57.62 million dollars on the basis of a long-term loan, which was taken in 2015, and was due yesterday.
The company states that it provided the money for the payment of the undertaken obligations independently, thanks to responsible business before the coronavirus pandemic, as well as extensive measures of saving and rationalization of business at all levels.
“Regardless of those circumstances and the fact that it could not operate commercial passenger flights from mid-March to the second half of May, the company continues to regularly settle all obligations to creditors and suppliers in the country and abroad,” the statement added.
Finance Minister Sinisa Mali said that the great news was that the Serbian national airline managed to settle all its remaining obligations to the creditor on its own. That means, as Mali said, “that the company is managed responsibly and in the right way, just as we, on the other hand, manage the state finances.”
He added that it is extremely important for a country to have its own national airline, which is best seen in the generous help that all the most powerful countries in the world have allocated to save their companies.
“Serbia will always stand by its national airline, and if there is a need, we will provide it with the necessary assistance. However, I am glad that they managed to settle the obligations based on this loan on their own,” said Mali.
He reminded that the company transported the necessary medical equipment from all over the world with cargo flights, and stated that he believed that it would continue to do a good job after the end of the severe pandemic that hit the whole world, 021 reports.
