Post by account_disabled on Mar 12, 2024 23:38:44 GMT -7
Faced with a scenario of losses in the billions, an airline cannot afford to reimburse tickets and trips within an elastic period and, at the same time, restrict its suppliers and partners by demanding cash payments during the Covid-19 epidemic.
Vadim Guzhva
Vadim Guzhva TJ-SP suspends travel agency debt collection due to Covid-19
With this understanding, judge Carlos Abrão, from the 14th Chamber of Private Law of the Court of Justice of São Paulo, ordered the suspension of the collection of a debt owed by a travel agency to an airline, for a period of 60 days from the respective due date. , under penalty of a daily fine of R$1,000.
In the documents, the travel agency B2B Lead claimed that it has been without commercial operations and cash flow for almost three months, with doors closed, due to the coronavirus epidemic, and, therefore, stated that it is unable to cover the required amount. by the airline.
The judge recognized “the harmful effects” of the pandemic on the economy, “causing a real earthquake for large companies and a tsunami for medium and small ones”, so that the tourism sector is among the hardest hit, with the ban on movement and limitations imposed for health reasons.
“No fictional scenario could predict what is happening in the world today, with a frontal shock, and international airlines are being eaten away, just look at American companies, and also Lufthansa, in the stage of renegotiating debts, as the German government refuses to inject capital into the company”, said Abrão.
The rapporteur also stated that, with no forecast of reopening the travel agency with the return of sales as it was before the epidemic, “and we could never admit that the world will be the same post-pandemic”, the “relevant aspects of plausibility for the partial granting of urgent relief” requested by the plaintiff.