hallasm Posted March 28, 2019 #1 Share Posted March 28, 2019 Iceland's Wow airline has stopped flights and says passengers needing to travel should book with other airlines. Its website says: "Wow Air has ceased operation. All Wow Air flights have been cancelled." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach1213 Posted March 28, 2019 #2 Share Posted March 28, 2019 Only a matter of time. They've been a mess for months now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare FlyerTalker Posted March 28, 2019 #3 Share Posted March 28, 2019 Liked the purple airplanes, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buggins0402 Posted March 28, 2019 #4 Share Posted March 28, 2019 I wonder how many passengers are stranded and how their attempts to find rescue flights home on other airlines is going? A one way international fare on short notice would be quite costly. Anyone know now what the track record for the industry is for picking up the pieces in these situations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiserBruce Posted March 28, 2019 #5 Share Posted March 28, 2019 WOW shuts down, and Norwegian expands (just announced SFO-LHR today)....interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach1213 Posted March 28, 2019 #6 Share Posted March 28, 2019 6 minutes ago, CruiserBruce said: WOW shuts down, and Norwegian expands (just announced SFO-LHR today)....interesting. I believe they're starting LGW, not LHR. Would be surprised to see them at LHR due to slot cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiserBruce Posted March 28, 2019 #7 Share Posted March 28, 2019 22 minutes ago, Zach1213 said: I believe they're starting LGW, not LHR. Would be surprised to see them at LHR due to slot cost. Could be. I only heard the announcement as "to London". Didn't pursue it further, as we don't fly Norwegian. It sounded like 5 days a week service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallasm Posted March 28, 2019 Author #8 Share Posted March 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Zach1213 said: I believe they're starting LGW, not LHR. Yes, LGW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare FionaMG Posted March 28, 2019 #9 Share Posted March 28, 2019 The BBC is reporting that Norwegian, Icelandair, easyJet and Wizz are all offering rescue fairs for stranded passengers. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47731043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buggins0402 Posted March 28, 2019 #10 Share Posted March 28, 2019 Our local news...WOW was still flying out of DTW: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/metro-detroit-hockey-players-stranded-overseas-after-wow-air-cancels-all-flights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallasm Posted March 29, 2019 Author #11 Share Posted March 29, 2019 5 hours ago, buggins0402 said: Our local news...WOW was still flying out of DTW: Do not fully understand you comments - or maybe article has broken updated ‘WOW Air cancels all flight’ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buggins0402 Posted March 29, 2019 #12 Share Posted March 29, 2019 8 hours ago, hallasm said: Do not fully understand you comments - or maybe article has broken updated ‘WOW Air cancels all flight’ I meant that DTW was one of the US airports that WOW was still flying out of when operations ceased. Last year, WOW had operations in more US airports, but cut those in a cost saving move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Globaliser Posted April 2, 2019 #13 Share Posted April 2, 2019 On 3/28/2019 at 1:19 PM, buggins0402 said: I wonder how many passengers are stranded and how their attempts to find rescue flights home on other airlines is going? A one way international fare on short notice would be quite costly. As demonstrated again by this event, usually there are other airlines that are ready to help out in such situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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