Kiss Flights grounded at airport; budget travel firm Collapse
Budget airline Kiss Flights has collapsed, The British-company, based in Gatwick airport. Flew between Glasgow and Spain, the Canary Islands, Egypt, Turkey Cyprus, Greece and between Edinburgh and Corfu, Crete and Rhodes, along with Gatwick airport, Manchester and other UK airports.
Kiss Flights folded after its parent company Flight Options Ltd ceased trading at 5pm Budget. Kiss Flights was also part of the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) Atol protection scheme, which kicks in when a travel company collapses, so travellers who have bookings with the company will be able to claim a full compensation under the (CAA) Atol protection scheme.
More than 60,000 travellers who had booked future flights with the company will receive refunds; several thousand who had booked package deals through the company could be left out of pocket.
Kiss Flights is the latest of a string of British travel companies to face problems and is the third British airline company to go bust in three months.
Travel experts have blamed the economic downturn and volcanic ash cloud which threw European travel companies into turmoil.
Around 11,000 Kiss Flights customers from across the UK were unable to return home after the firm ceased trading at 5pm on 18 August 2010.
Travel analyst expert Bob Atkinson, at holiday price comparison site travelsupermarket.com said:
“This is sadly yet another collapse in what could become a rash of company failures this autumn.”
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