THe Travel Trade Gazette reports the refinancing should be sorted out this week

Lgw-kgs
 

I'm flying to KGS on the XLA316 in a few weeks time. Any ideas what type i'll be flying on at all?
Cheers.

Excel Airways
 

Anyone heard news they maybe troubles ahead?

Apparently stopping all Caribbean flights for good, and making losses :\


XL Leisure Group enters crisis funding talks - Times Online

Newspaper said yesturday its backer had pulled out and was in crisis looking for a new lender.

I know its terribly fun speculating on others livelyhood but the Sunday Times was just jumping on the post zoom bandwagon. The Telegraph also commented yesterday Hope for XL after lenders spend the weekend in talks - Telegraph

LGW to KGS will be operating on B737-800 cant tell u reg as they rotate fleet around with other bases.

I hope that XL manage to keep flying. Their presence on the BGI route was useful opposition to BA and VS. I note that they said that they are going to continue with their flights to Orlando with a 763. Keep flying guys!

No, they posted a valid story. It is galling when some contributors take a strange taste to wishing airlines out of the skies, but it does not help to deny funding issues exist.

In this case funding is clearly an issue - one which will hopefully be resolved.

All I can say is that I hope everything works out well for them, as several of my former FLS colleagues run their Maintenance.

why keeping digging at Zoom, many people loss their jobs as well as people losing flights.
Move on!

More importantly, what will happen to the West Ham shirt sponsorship deal if they go under :eek::eek::eek:

You know I could have sworn I saw a post on Sunday from some mischief making charlie quoting he had 'on good authority' (Don't you just love people who do that!) that XL/Globespan were next to go. They even said they heard it at board level.
Then it suddenly disappeared. Was I hallucinating? Quite how he/she has so many high placed contacts we will have to just wonder.
This is a really tough time and I hope all concerned will get through. At least Oil is down to nearer $100 today. Keep that glass full.

Standby BMI ...

weeone

Quality :D

Excel...
 

Wee one

1st: The forum wouldn't let me use 'XL' as a title therefore i used Excel as a starting point, to which everybody understood what i was getting at. It probably took you a while to understand. Were you looking at spreadsheets or something before you replied?.

2nd: I am incapable of keeping up as i wouldn't have asked the question in the first place. Isn't that what forums are for?.

3rd: I didnt refer to all the press speculation, it was others in the thread that added all of it, which was helpful in my quest for information regardless of the content.

So overall i think YOUR the one that needs to keep up, or are you having difficulty.....as your name suggests.

XL are dropping the Caribean just for the winter to increase flights to Orlando.
The 330 currently at Manch will be wet leased to Finnair for the winter so the Caribean 76 will fill that gap.

Same thread/topic running in T&E

HFS:)

Have also heard that bmi are making approaches on XL...

They could do with a 'Better' Management team that's for sure.:D

XL are not the 'sharpest in the droor':ugh:

Err...ahem!


If that was a joke, sorry I missed it! 2nd glass of Rioja!