By Cathy Elelman • Published: 16 Feb 2019 • 22:53
CANCELLED: The airline blamed "various difficulties" Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
BRITISH regional airline Flybmi has announced it has cancelled all its flights and filed for administration.
An airline blamed spokesman blamed “various difficulties”, including an increase in fuel and carbon costs, but also the “uncertainty” created by the Brexit process.
The Secretary General of the British Airline Pilots Association Brian Strutton described it as “devastating news” for the airline employees.
The East Midlands based airline operated flights to 25 European cities.
The airline advised affected passengers to contact their travel agents or insurance and credit card companies.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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