Airline stops taking new route bookings
An airline planning to launch several new routes from Ireland in October has decided to stop taking bookings.
Freshaer.com had planned to open several new routes between Dublin, the UK and Spain.
However, it emerged that although Freshaer was taking bookings for its autumn start-up, it was not properly licensed to do so in this country.
The company claimed it was entitled to sell seats pending the issuing of a license to operate. However, the commission for airline regulation has said this is not the case.
Today, the company said it had taken what it called the regrettable decision to stop taking bookings and to return money paid by passengers until the license was issued.