{"id":501,"date":"2015-01-22T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T14:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ECCWORDPRESS\/2015\/01\/22\/fly-hermes-license-suspended\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T19:53:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:53:48","slug":"fly-hermes-license-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/en\/news\/fly-hermes-license-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"FLY HERMES&#8217; LICENSE SUSPENDED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #333333; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-499\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;\" title=\"Fly Hermes, suspended\" src=\"https:\/\/ecc-netitalia.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/flyhermes.jpg\" alt=\"flyhermes\" width=\"330\" height=\"185\" \/>The Maltese civil aviation<br \/>\nauthorities have suspended the licence granted to the air carrier Fly Hermes<br \/>\nlast December because of the massive delays and flight cancellation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #333333; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\">The <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #333333;\">Sicilian-owned company registered in Malta operated daily flights on a multi-city route including Malta, Comiso (Sicily), Torino and Palermo.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #333333; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\"> However, the new carrier, which owns just one aircraft, soon started encountering difficulties, with passengers complaining of massive delays and flight cancellations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #333333;\">Last 6-7 January\u00a0 Fly <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #333333; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;\">Hermes had lef<!--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/-->t about 300 passengers stranded for two days at Palermo and Comiso airport and after that <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #333333;\">the Italian authorities were investigating also contacting the correspondent Maltese authorities. \u201cAn air carrier should operated according to the European standards but Fly Hermes is not abiding by them and adopts an unacceptable behavior\u201d said the President of Enac, Vito Riggio with regard to the disruptions caused by Fly Hermes according to which the problem was a technical problem. \u201cWe can not accept this way of working and this is the reason why we are going to fine the air carrier for each verified disruption. \u00a0There are well defined benchmarks at European level, but this airline is violating them harming the passengers and the airports themselves\u201d keeps on saying the President Riggio. The Tourism Minister Zammit Lewis admitted that the incident was damaging to Malta\u2019s image abroad and the fact that they took immediate action to suspend the licence shows that they are trying to contain the damage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #333333;\">At the end of the meeting with Enac, held to verified the reasons of delays and flight cancellations, Fly Hermes confirmed that passengers will be refunded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #333333;\">Remember that you are entitled to get assistance and compensation in case of more than 3 hours delay and flight cancellation not due to extraordinary circumstance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #333333;\">Please, contact us for further information and help.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maltese civil aviation authorities have suspended the licence granted to the air carrier Fly Hermes last December because of the massive delays and flight cancellation. The Sicilian-owned company registered in Malta operated daily flights on a multi-city route including Malta, Comiso (Sicily), Torino and Palermo. 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