Originally Posted by
wiggy
From what I’ve heard in the last few hours I gather the first priority for some of the employees is simply finding help in getting home from North America.
Not just the employees. From the Wikipedia page:-
...many planes were in the air at the time of the decision. In many cases, passengers learned that the airline was shut down while in line to board the plane. Passengers were left without flights or refunds, and no employees left to assist.
I flew transatlantic with them in May ex STN. They struck me as a pretty chaotic operation.