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Colombia’s disaster fund will lend as much as $370 million to Avianca Holdings SA to help with its restructuring after
a halt in travel during the Covid-19 pandemic forced the company into bankruptcy, the country’s finance ministry said in a statement.
The emergency mitigation fund’s committee approved the government-backed loan, due November 2021, under the framework of debtor-in-possession financing the company is seeking in its US bankruptcy court case, the ministry said.
Avianca, one of the biggest airlines in Latin America, filed for Chapter 11 protection in New York in May after travel bans forced the airline to ground its fleet. It reached an agreement with lenders this month for a substantial part of the $2 billion it’s trying to raise as it restructures.
The company is offering one of the highest premiums yet seen on a $1.3 billion debtor-in-possession loan.