BALTIA AIR LINES, INC. (OTCMKTS:BLTA) Files An 8-K Termination of a Material Definitive AgreementItem 1.02 Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement
On August 30, 2017, Baltia Air Lines, Inc. dba USGlobal Airways (the “Company”) entered into a stock purchase agreement (the “Agreement”) with AerLine Holdings Inc. (“AerLine”) for the purchase of all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of Songbird Airways, Inc. (“Songbird”), a wholly owned subsidiary of AerLine, for an aggregate purchase price of $6,500,000 (the “Acquisition”) to be paid in cash, plus any amounts related to certain pre-paid assets of Songbird. The Acquisition was scheduled to close no later than October 31, 2017. In connection with the Agreement, the Company made a good-faith deposit of $1,000,000 with a third party escrow agent, which funds were released to AerLine on September 1, 2017.
The Company received a letter, dated November 22, 2017, from AerLine terminating the Agreement as a result of the Company’s failure to proceed with the closing as scheduled.
About BALTIA AIR LINES, INC. (OTCMKTS:BLTA)
Baltia Air Lines, Inc. (Baltia) is a development-stage company. The Company provides scheduled air transportation from the United States to Russia, the Baltic States and the Ukraine. Baltia is in Phase III of the FAA Air Carrier Certification. The Company has two trademarks: Baltia and Voyager Class. Baltia intends to commence scheduled non-stop service from its Base of Operations at Terminal 4, JFK Int’l Airport in New York to Pulkovo II Int’l Airport of St. Petersburg. The Company intends to provide nonstop passenger, cargo and mail service from JFK to St. Petersburg and from JFK to Riga, with online service to Minsk, Kiev and Tbilisi, as well as back up service to Moscow. It intends to operate as a Part 121 carrier, a heavy jet operator. Baltia intends to start the JFK-St. Petersburg service with one round-trip flight per week, then increase the frequency to over three round trips, and then to approximately five round trips.
