I am quite puzzled about the existance of this thread. Is there anything that supports the story that AEU is going bust ,other than they did not extend sby´s contract? When you are comparing Sterling to AEU, there is nothing to compare. Other then these companies have had the same ownership. But under different holding companies. Current owner of AEU owned Sterling before it went bust. Sterling was in selling tickets and travel packages and AEU in wet lease only.