R.I.P Spanair:sad::{

My very first flight was with them back in 93, GLA-PMI-GLA on a Mad Dog. Aged 3 years old at the time, boarding via rear stairs under the tail was exciting to say the least!

Good luck to all their staff, also.:ok:

As RYR, on their website, labels Spanair as a financially unstable airline, therefore always at risk, would MOL care to enlighten us as to which UNION it was that caused this financial instability? Surely it can't have been a management screw up. Only unions can be the root of any demise. They are the evil that angelic management needs to keep at bay at what ever cost. Every airline that I know that has gone down the pan was in spite of unions trying to help the cause. It was always blinkered and incompetent suits that lit the blue touch paper and blew them up.

Spanair collapses, stranding 20,000 people
 

Spain's fourth-largest airline Spanair has collapsed
 

Spain's fourth-largest airline Spanair has collapsed according to the BBC

Great to see people with their fingers on the pulse. . . . this happened when. . . . . . let me see, Friday, and we are now, Er Monday, well, thanks for posting :D

Actually, that is a bit harsh, I should probably direct my sarcasm to the Beeb for taking so long to put it up on their news. I think anyone affected has probably found out (the hard way) the news already, without the Beebs help.

Spanair
 

Spanair stops flying after Qatar deal falls through

It was being heavily subsidised by the Catalan government, but a pity nonetheless jobswise.

Happened on Friday, 2 threads already combined & moved to Airlines Airports & Routes, do you think nobody noticed for 4 days :ugh:

Is WW II already over?

Strange that not seen much if anything mentioned in the news about it.

@captplaystation
Seemingly not;)

It was front page headline news in Spain. However, the news of Air Astreus didn't make the Spanish news for the most part.

It was even on the Beeb:
BBC News - Spanair collapses, stranding 20,000 people

(mods - I presume this thread is about to disappear...)

Yep, but not till yesterday, I guess unless you were Wayne & Waynetta stuck in Benidorm with 3 urchins it probably didn't matter.:rolleyes:

For those that have recently posted here, I merely wondered if you thought those of us employed in the aviation industry hadn't noticed , didn't expect it to loom large in the radar of [email protected]

BBC TV news was reporting this over the weekend as I saw it.

So yes there are a few 'hello and welcome to last weeks' on here...

What a great pity. I have fond memories of Business Class trips on Spanair between Madrid and Germany. The catering and in-flight service were superb - far better than flying with Lufthansa. So I always arranged my buisness trips to use Spanair rather than LH.

Gone now though. Very sad.

I see that the nasty little Irish jackal is sniffing around trying to take advantage of the situation.

Yet another reason NEVER to demean myself by flying with that tawdry outfit.

BEagle - while Ryanair can be distasteful, it's a basic rule of business that when one company goes bust, its competitors start hovering around like vultures trying to pick off whatever they can. I'm sure Vueling, Iberia, easyJet and others are doing the same - they just aren't always so open about it.

And if airlines didn't try and fill the gaps left by a collapsed airline you would be on complaining they are not looking after travelling public.

That nastly little Irish jackal provides me, and many others like me, with a low-cost method of getting to visit my family on a regular basis. Please save your invective for the Ryanair thread.

When do we find out if Spanair get fined the 9 million euros?

We can be sure that the €9mil will bounce between courts of law for many moons to come.