Another airline in administration: XL Airways UK

[Boeing767copilot]

from their website:

XL Leisure Group Plc, XL Airways UK Limited, Excel Aviation Limited, Explorer House Limited, Aspire Holidays Limited, Freedom Flights Limited, Freedom Flights (Aviation) Limited, The Really Great Holiday Company plc, Medlife Hotels Limited, Travel City Flights Limited, Kosmar Villa Holidays plc – All in Administration (the Companies)

On 12 September 2008, Alastair Beveridge, Nick Cropper, Simon Appell and Stuart Mackellar were appointed as Joint Administrators of the Companies by the Court.

The Companies entered into Administration having suffered as a result of volatile fuel prices, the economic downturn, and were unable to obtain further funding.

The Joint Administrators cannot continue trading the business and therefore all flights operated by the Companies have been immediately cancelled and the aircraft grounded. Going forward, the Joint Administrators are unlikely to be able to trade the business or operate the aircraft.

All passengers who have yet to commence their travel should make alternative arrangements as detailed below.

The French and German divisions of the XL Group continue to trade as usual.

[Outsync]

Will this affect the new agreement between XL and TC ?

[dna]

The French and German divisions of the XL Group continue to trade as usual.

This should not affect the deal with TC, as those flights will be operated by XL France. Not sure how closely these different XL airlines are linked though.

[LX-LGX]

off topic:

Air Bee (Italy) has also been grounded - since 10th Sept (they had 5 x MD-82's)

http://www.airbee.it

[janhuub]

Is it the airline ( XL airways )only that has gone into adminstration or the travel group ( XL Leisure) completely?

Disregard, should have read the first post.


thx

Jan

[LX-LGX]

Is it the airline (XL airways) only that has gone into adminstration or the travel group (XL Leisure) completely?

Yes Jan, it's the whole group, including Britain's 3th largest touroperator. Britain's CAA has grounded all the 22 XL UK aircraft at 01h a.m. last night, thus causing also the collapse of the touroperator.

67.000 pax are stranded.

XL France and XL Germany are still in the air.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/b ... 737592.ece

[AirDupont]

Including an A332, maybe interesting for SN