Cello Aviation Ceased Trading

[spitfire_sl]

Cello Aviation Ceased Trading

Cello Aviation (http://www.flycello.com)

[rotorwills]

Another small airline falls by the wayside. Seems to be one by one failing month by month. Big getting bigger,
One has to have sympathy for all involved with their operation, not sure now many are affected. Looks like they haven't left any SLF stranded which is a positive. Would expect what crew they have to be hoovered up by the biggies.
This BRexit stuff could prove to be a massive problem in the coming few months with so much uncertainty. Seems to be a turbulent period ahead.

[Webby737]

Shame, they seemed like a good bunch, although I think they were down to one RJ100 on wet lease to Air France earlier this year.
Good luck to the staff finding new jobs.

[ford cortina]

Didn't they have a 737 based in Dublin.
Not a great time to be looking.
best of luck to all involved

[Buster the Bear]

G-MISG Boeing 737-300 should have positioned to Cardiff today. G-ILLR Avro RJ100 last flew according to FR24 on Oct 1st leased to Hop and is at Toulouse.

[TFE731]

West Atlantic are looking for 737 drivers provided they don’t mind night freight.

[Hussar 54]

I didn't know much about CELLO so did a Wiki to find out.

At lunchtime today, 12th October, Wiki already said -Cello Aviation was a British charter airline based at Birmingham Airport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Airport). The airline primarily operated private and VIP charters with two specially configured aircraft. It also operated wet lease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_lease#Wet_lease) and full charter flights with an Avro RJ100 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Aerospace_146) aircraft.[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cello_Aviation#cite_note-Cello-1)

So it seems someone had already updated Wiki to the past tense within a couple of minutes of the announcement - which I find quite strange.

Good Luck to the people involved - been there, done that....And honestly, all the better for it !!

[FrontSeatPhil]

That's a shame.

I've flown as SLF on their jets many times, frequently on G-RAJJ, their old Avro/BAe 146, and the staff were always fantastic. The refurbished 737 they had was odd, though - fake carbon fibre everywhere, and switches with misspelled labels!

Hopefully everybody comes out of this ok.

[Duchess_Driver]

G-ILLR the RJ is now at Cranfield having been positioned in this afternoon. G-MISG, AFAIK is (as stated above) headed to Cardiff.

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[jetstream7]

G-MISG Boeing 737-300 should have positioned to Cardiff today

It ended up at St Athan and is in the care of Cardiff Aviation.

[Nemrytter]

So it seems someone had already updated Wiki to the past tense within a couple of minutes of the announcement - which I find quite strange.Never underestimate the nerdiness of plane spotters and wikipedia editors.

[CaptainProp]

Didn't they have a 737 based in Dublin.
Not a great time to be looking.
best of luck to all involved

Why is that? Every single airline in Europe are recruiting so couldn’t really be a “better” time if you need a job....

CP

[flyer12900]

So what is the chance on recouping any funds from them for people that have paid them money already?

[Duchess_Driver]

Just a guess..... SQRT(f.all)

[Nipper1011]

They only did whole-plane charters and ACMI flying so it is likely that the only individuals out of pocket are their former staff.
It takes a lot more than pilots to run an air operator, a lot of good people are out of work and deserve sympathy and support.

[macdo]

Who will be next? FlyBe share price dropped 30% and more in the last 24 hrs. after profits warning.

[flyer12900]

Nipper 1011, not quiet true, the customers had to pay 20% deposit of the charter upon signing their contract for a flight.