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Air Canada Backed in Bid to Keep Flying

April 5, 2004
 By BLOOMBERG NEWS





Air Canada should be permitted to continue to operate under
bankruptcy protection while it seeks a new investor to
replace Trinity Time Investments, a court-appointed monitor
said.

The airline told the monitor, Ernst & Young, that it had
952.7 million Canadian dollars ($725 million) in cash on
hand and that it expected to have about 1.03 billion
Canadian dollars by June, and should be able to operate for
several months.

"Accordingly, the monitor is of the view that the applicant
should be allowed a period of time to further pursue its
restructuring efforts and to commence a process for
identifying an alternate equity investor or source of
postemergence financing," Ernst & Young said in its report.


Trinity, owned by Victor Li, a Hong Kong businessman, had
offered to buy the airline, but it signaled on Friday that
it did not expect to complete its investment of 650 million
Canadian dollars.

Air Canada, based in Montreal, has said it needs pension
concessions from workers to emerge from bankruptcy
protection. Trinity has said the airline cannot afford its
current benefits plan because of competition from
lower-cost carriers like WestJet Airlines and Jetsgo.

Air Canada said that the war in Iraq, the SARS virus and
expansion by domestic carriers reduced its 2003 revenue by
1.3 billion Canadian dollars from the previous year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/business/05air.html?ex=1082169211&ei=1&en=d836bb66fb60f623


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