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purveyor of perpetually delayed flights and peanuts.

Yup I saw this earlier. One aircraft grounded in Glasgow for non-paymnet of air traffic control fees and landing fees. Another grounded in Calgary for non payment of fuel and non payment of aircraft lease fees.
It's all over for Zoom me thinks.

http://www.flyzoom.com/


..... so can we have our $20 million back please?


PS: BOOK YOUR BA CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY FLIGHTS NOW!!!

Val...hall eye kan say his......I hope dey aint gutt a flight up der nah wiff a bunch of Portageeze horn it ann all de egines quit...............

Dey be hup der hall nite........................................................ :slap: :slap:

http://www.royalgazette.com/siftology.royalgazette/Article/article.jsp?articleId=7d88e4a30030004&sectionId=60

Shame.

From the BBC:

"They added that hopes of securing a new investment package to ensure future operations had failed, meaning administration procedures had to begin.

The announcement came after one of its planes was detained at Glasgow Airport on Thursday for non-payment of air traffic control charges.

Meanwhile passengers on a flight from Cardiff were told to get off their Zoom plane, which was then impounded. "

Can you imagine sititng on a plane and then being told to get off? Jeez. Poor buggers all round.

I wonder how that C Travel promotion is going..... you know the one - book a ticket on Zoom and we'll give you a free ticket.

Zoom suspends operations, strands passengers


http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/08/28/calgary-zoom.html?ref=rss
 (http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/08/28/calgary-zoom.html?ref=rss)

We can probably start a whole new site called: AIRLINES SUCK!

Yah right der chiel. I even heard that Pan Am and Eatern Airlines are about to go under also. I think this will happen. My sauces are always correct...........

Breaking news.......................Concord suspends all flights.......................................... ;D

I see Zoom has grounded all of their fleet and will file for bankruptcy, leaving fare paying customers in the lurch. I hope there aren't too many of you who have tickets on Zoom!

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=zoom+airlines+bankrupt&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=1&ct=title

All these differant threads on the same subject umm gunna go zooooooooooooooooooooom  nite nite. ;D :)

I have a few friends who have booked with zoom for upcoming flights and so far so good.  One friend has booked with her credit card which means that she can recover the money from her CC company - though the cost of flying with BA to come out is 150 pounds more expensive and she doesn't have a lot of spare cash - so needs to decide whether she can still come out or not.  another friend booked her mother to come out and paid through C Travel.  Apparently C Travel have promised her money back with a cheque - she should collect Tuesday.  apparently C Travel who are registered agents with Zoom have a policy of not paying for the flights (to Zoom) until the flight has been completed - so no hassles if you booked through C Travel.

I feel for those poor bleeders that were travelling yesterday when it was announced.  Someone I know who was due to fly back yesterday when it was announced had to pay out $700 bucks each to fly home using BA - actually that's not a "bad" price in the scheme off things.  I'm just keeping everything crossed they can recover that.

Now watch BA rip us all again now there's no competition!!

If Ewart wants to be a hero I highly suggest he hire a charter flight to get all visitors stranded in Bermuda back to the UK. Pick a day like Sunday and if people have to stay a few extra days pick up their hotel tab courtesy of the people of Bermuda. If they have to leave early have the hotels re-imburse the rooms. It will all come out in the wash and the people wll have a less stressful stay on the island.

 :slap:

Folks.... get ready to start seeing scales at the check-in counter.... for you.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20080829/ap_tr_ge/travel_brief_canada_airline_life_vests

Let's just hope they don't start leaving the fuel behind in order to save weight..... :innocent:

If you follow the argument of paying more for extra or heavier bags to it's logical conclusion, it makes sense to me to charge fat people more for their seats. I don't know, perhaps use BMI numbers as a guide?

What a load of shit.....yes shit........discrimination.......

Ah skinneey ass lyke me should fly for free...hell they should pay ME............................

You get better health coverage rates if you are healthy right? And that includes weight. So, why not charge more for fat people on planes? Come on Rummy, in the interests of fairness my ticket is funding part of the fuel burn of someone who weighs more than they should. That's not fair.

Oh shit.......um howta hair.......ann they should charge you for the six beers you had....and the three burgers...and the extra newspapers ....and the Tampons inside.........

I need sum Coke man....forget dee rum.................................

Hmmmm.... me thinks Colonel Burch could strike it rich by setting up a line out-houses just as you enter the terminal. Poop In & Save Out. ;)

If he's smart, he put them "air-side" and charge more.