Com a maioria dos 20 mil funcionários sem pagamento, Avianca não resiste à crise e corre risco de falir

With Most of Its 20,000 Employees Unpaid, Avianca Cannot Withstand the Crisis and Risks Bankruptcy

Written by Flavia Marinho

Published on 11/05/2020 at 11:56

Com a maioria dos 20 mil funcionários sem pagamento, Avianca não resiste à crise e corre risco de falir

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Crisis at Avianca

In the Early 2000s, Avianca Already Went Through a Bankruptcy Process from Which It Was Rescued by a Bolivia-born Oil Entrepreneur, German Efromovich.

Although the Executive Aggressively Expanded the Airline, He Accumulated Significant Debts. Efromovich Disagrees with the Decision to File for Bankruptcy and Claims He Was Not Involved in It.

Despite Still Holding a Majority Stake in the Company, the Entrepreneur Was Removed from the Business in 2010 in a Board Coup Led by United Airlines Holdings Inc.

The United May Lose Up to $700 Million in Loans Related to Avianca. Meanwhile, the Airline Announced It Plans to Begin Reducing Operations in Peru.

With Most of Its 20,000 Employees Unpaid, Avianca Cannot Withstand the Crisis and Risks Bankruptcy

Avianca Has Not Operated Regular Passenger Flights Since the End of March, and Most of Its 20,000 Employees Have Gone Without Pay During the Crisis Caused by the Coronavirus.

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Crisis at Avianca

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With Most of Its 20,000 Employees Unpaid, Avianca Cannot Withstand the Crisis and Risks Bankruptcy

Avianca Has Not Operated Regular Passenger Flights Since the End of March, and Most of Its 20,000 Employees Have Gone Without Pay During the Crisis Caused by the Coronavirus.

Read Also

Crisis at Avianca

With billions in loans, China is rebuilding Nigeria’s railway network from scratch, abandoning the British colonial tracks that have turned to scrap and creating a corridor of over 1,300 km to take the load off the roads of Africa’s largest economy.

China is building an artificial island in the middle of the sea, covering 20 km², to construct the largest offshore airport in the world, the Dalian Jinzhouwan. This $4.3 billion project is anchored on more than 3,000 pillars embedded in the rock beneath the ocean and is scheduled to open in 2035.

Forget petroleum-based asphalt: a Scottish company transforms 684,000 plastic bottles into one kilometer of road that is 60% more resistant and up to 10 times more durable, and the technology has already started replacing traditional asphalt in more than 30 countries.

A British company has installed in the middle of the ocean the world’s first floating platform that generates electricity 24 hours a day from the temperature difference between the surface and the depths of the Atlantic, without relying on wind or sun.

Austrian engineers have developed an inflatable concrete technology that transforms flat slabs into domes using only air pressure, eliminating scaffolding and temporary forms, and potentially changing the way bridges, tunnels, and curved roofs are constructed worldwide.

A robot named Walter does the work of five bricklayers per hour and can save the construction industry, where the average age of professionals is 46 years and almost no one wants to learn the trade anymore, in the United Kingdom.

The James Webb telescope spotted a planet 700 light-years from Earth with mornings full of sand clouds and nights with clear skies, the temperature difference between the two hemispheres reaches an impressive 170 degrees.

The largest precious metals mine under construction in the world is situated on a layer of ore 25 times thicker than common mines in South Africa, and has just connected a third shaft that will quintuple the extraction of platinum, palladium, and gold.

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