I am amazed that there are people coming out of the woodwork to defend PW even yet.
Goldtrail Travel collapses a couple of weeks ago having made payments for all of its flying to Meridian Aviation before it ceases trading. A strange thing to do for a company about to cease trading.
Meridian Aviation is run by PW's brother and places most of its flying with Viking Airlines, which is part-owned by PW's investment vehicle, the name of which is inspired by a pirate ship (at least that's honest).
Kiss Flights (which used to be a subsidiary of Meridian before being "sold" to another company that happened to have a sufficiently large ATOL licence which Meridian couldn't get itself) then ceases trading having taken all of its peak summer customers overseas and leaving the CAA with a large bill to get them back home again.
Viking then suddenly pops up selling seats directly to the public via the internet, which as a Swedish airline, it can do without any of the ATOL protection which Goldtrail and Kiss Flights customers would have enjoyed. It is now selling seats at a significantly higher price on the same flights to the same customers who had booked with Goldtrail and then re-booked with Kiss Flights and now have to re-book again.
Does anyone else smell a large rat here?