Eujet cease operations/Manston(Merged)
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EU Jet at Manston
EU jet have suspended operations for the day due to the banks withdrawing finance as they have not achieved pax loades that were required. The parent companies shares have been suspended. Does any one have any further news?
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Easyjet to the rescue
Monarch to the rescue
Rescue package for stranded EUjet passengers
Low cost airline, Monarch Scheduled, is to fly to the rescue of passengers left stranded in Spain and Portugal by collapsed airline, EUjet, this week. For just £25 plus taxes, passengers left marooned by the airline’s demise can get a flight back home to the UK with Monarch Scheduled.
The rescue offer is available to EUjet passengers due to travel inbound to the UK from Monarch Scheduled destinations in Spain or Portugal within the next seven days, on production of an EUjet travel itinerary.
The offer is valid on the following routes:
Malaga to Luton or Gatwick
Alicante to Luton or Gatwick
Faro to Luton or Gatwick
Lisbon to Gatwick
Granada to Gatwick
Palma to Manchester
Barcelona to Manchester
Gibraltar to Luton
Passengers wishing to take advantage of this special rescue offer should produce their itinerary at the Monarch Scheduled ticket desk in Alicante, Malaga, Granada, Palma, Barcelona, Gibraltar, Faro or Lisbon. They will then be able to purchase a seat back to the UK for £25 plus taxes, subject to availability and for travel before 23.59hrs on 03 August 2006.
Looks pretty damn rosey in Luton at the moment
(And I'm not talking about that Ugly faded orange you see there!!!!)
PS. Good luck and all the best for the people who are stranded at the moment, including personel.
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The fat lady sang at 4pm. All out of work. Ops,cabin crew, pilots, airport staff, the whole shooting match. Believe manston closed.
Will have a knock on effect for all businesses on the airfield. Sad day for all. Lots of very nice people looking for work. Pleasure to work with you all.
Will have a knock on effect for all businesses on the airfield. Sad day for all. Lots of very nice people looking for work. Pleasure to work with you all.
Buzz off with BAF!!
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Regrettably it was so inevitable. Wrong business plan,
wrong management, wrong airport and wrong aircraft.
But what was RIGHT was the great team of people who worked
flat out to make it work. My thoughts are with the aircrew and ground staff today.
They are the ones who deserve better than this.
wrong management, wrong airport and wrong aircraft.
But what was RIGHT was the great team of people who worked
flat out to make it work. My thoughts are with the aircrew and ground staff today.
They are the ones who deserve better than this.
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A very sad tale, and one that most of us in the travel industry had been predicting for months, in fact many were surprised at how long they lasted. The losers are the unpaid staff and the passengers yet to fly, credit card bookings may be protected by the Consumer Credit Act but as an Irish airline, where did they process the payments? If it wasn't in the UK, there is legal precedent to say the credit card companies have no liability to repay at all and everyone using a debit card is completely adrift if the money has already been taken.
The bizarre and worrying fact is less than four weeks ago this Government was encouraged to legislate to protect all passengers of scheduled airlines so that they would have the same protection as customers of ATOL holders. During the second reading of the Civil Aviation Bill, the government refused to extend the protection, if I was one of the customers out of pocket, I would demand an urgent explanation from my MP!
The bizarre and worrying fact is less than four weeks ago this Government was encouraged to legislate to protect all passengers of scheduled airlines so that they would have the same protection as customers of ATOL holders. During the second reading of the Civil Aviation Bill, the government refused to extend the protection, if I was one of the customers out of pocket, I would demand an urgent explanation from my MP!
A very sad day for all the employees of EUjet.Such a shame there were not better rail links with the airport---it might have worked then ,who knows.
Do hope that something can be done at this late stage.
Well done Monarch and Easyjet for stepping in and saving the day.
Do hope that something can be done at this late stage.
Well done Monarch and Easyjet for stepping in and saving the day.
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Manston is not closed. It's operating normally (!), and there are "three offers on the table".
With the destruction of the debt there is an opportunity for a new owner to get things moving. Planestation never had any cash, and what they had was squandered on pie-in-the-sky projects around the world. Just look at the list of airports that they've dumped since M May took over.
EUjet was also short of cash, and had an incredible business plan. The cash that was wasted on ludicrous routes!
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Visitor to KIA Manston last week
Overheard in the "Jolly Farmer" in Manston. David Bryon (MD of BMIbaby) was seen flying into Manston last week and was met for a 2 hour meeting by the airport director and someone from EUjet. Flew in one of his company aircraft, had the meeting then departed.........anyone heard any more ?
Today\'s rumour is that Bmibaby is interested in Manston.
With the destruction of the debt there is an opportunity for a new owner to get things moving. Planestation never had any cash, and what they had was squandered on pie-in-the-sky projects around the world. Just look at the list of airports that they've dumped since M May took over.
EUjet was also short of cash, and had an incredible business plan. The cash that was wasted on ludicrous routes!
posted 8th May 2005 11:53
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Visitor to KIA Manston last week
Overheard in the "Jolly Farmer" in Manston. David Bryon (MD of BMIbaby) was seen flying into Manston last week and was met for a 2 hour meeting by the airport director and someone from EUjet. Flew in one of his company aircraft, had the meeting then departed.........anyone heard any more ?
Today\'s rumour is that Bmibaby is interested in Manston.
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Manston is NOT operating normally. As I understand it, the airport is closed until at least 0700 tomoro morning (27th July) as they have no insurance in place. Whether this is because of the demise of Planestation or not I don't know.
All the EUjet Fokker 100s (well at least 5) have been flown to Dinard this afternoon. Anybody know why? Is it just cheap parking there or something?
All the EUjet Fokker 100s (well at least 5) have been flown to Dinard this afternoon. Anybody know why? Is it just cheap parking there or something?
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local bbc tv news are stating that Manston is closed, local MP states that all will be done to re-open the airport, as the airports operation is pivitol to Thanets re-development, and employment prospects, BBC state all staff at airport have been laid off, not just EUJET staff, 500 job losses in total. Fokker,s have been returned to Debis Finance, the aircrafts owner's, do you think this redeployment of the fleet may just have been pre-planned!!!!! One aircraft has been impounded by the BAA at EDI, yesterday afternoon.
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bmibaby would certainly have more luck running a low-cost schedule from Manston than there attempts at establishing some kind of low-cost flying from the south-east out of Gatwick. With bmibaby's love of changing airport names, not sure what Manston would end up as though? 
I'm very sorry to hear that EUJet has folded operations. I've had the pleasure of flying from Manston, and everyone I came across were both extremely friendly & professional. Best of luck with whichever company you move onto.
I'm very sorry to hear that EUJet has folded operations. I've had the pleasure of flying from Manston, and everyone I came across were both extremely friendly & professional. Best of luck with whichever company you move onto.
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Presumably the Aerodrome operators certificate was held by Plane station directors obviously the management of the company is now with the administrators
can the administrators hold such a certificate, this will have some bearing on the possibility of Manston re-opening
a very sad day for all
can the administrators hold such a certificate, this will have some bearing on the possibility of Manston re-opening
a very sad day for all
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I'm sure that I read somewhere that an American Airline was going to use Manston for cruise ship charter flights this summer?Wonder what is going to happen with these?
J01