Norwegian short-haul airline Flyr files for bankruptcy – Gatwick route will not launch

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• zapato1060 says:

  31 Jan31 January 19:33

  What is it with LCCs in Europe struggling and in the Americas they are thriving like there’s no tomorrow and opening one after another?

  • Peter K says:

    31 Jan31 January 22:01

    LCCs struggling in Europe? Like easyjet, ryanair and wizz you mean?

  • Rhys says:

    1 Feb1 February 08:30

    LCCs are much better in Europe than in the USA. Much broader networks. Spirit and Frontier, the two big LCCs in the US have quite specific route networks and Spirit is about to be gobbled up by JetBlue, which is likely to drive prices up.

    The LCC ecosystem feels a lot more mature in Europe, whilst my gut feeling is there’s still room for growth in the US.

• DaveJ says:

  31 Jan31 January 20:32

  I’m shocked

• Save East Coast Rewards says:

  31 Jan31 January 21:08

  Let’s stop calling airlines fly-something. They never seem to last. Flybe died twice, bmi Regional died when they decided to call it flybmi, then of course there’s Flylo which was on that BBC documentary for a few years. They aren’t around either

  • rev_lou says:

    31 Jan31 January 21:33

    Flyr means “[it] flies” in Norwegian. Aside from that minor point, tend to agree!

    • Save East Coast Rewards says:

      31 Jan31 January 21:47

      I thought it was just late in the trend of missing the ‘e’ out like Flickr and Grindr

      • Novice says:

        31 Jan31 January 22:43

        I still agree with your initial point. I think fly… anything is cursed now 😂

        • Kevin says:

          1 Feb1 February 15:20

          Haha, your totally right! Fly Atlantic is the next one to come. I bet it folds before it even flies one of its non-existent planes!

  • zapato1060 says:

    31 Jan31 January 21:51

    I Nok Air what you got to say.

  • Dubious says:

    1 Feb1 February 05:25

    That does not bode well for FlyDubai then!

  • Numpty says:

    1 Feb1 February 09:01

    The problem with FlyLo was they didn’t sell enough speedy boarding tickets 😉

• BajiNahid says:

  1 Feb1 February 00:10

  lol love the cheek of “claim your money back from your credit card” meaning “we’ve stuffed your money and away we go”

  • SamG says:

    1 Feb1 February 06:13

    Usually there has been some retention by the card services provider to cater for this in a risky business. IIRC it’s what sent Globespan under, they suddenly increased it or wanted to keep the money until after the flight date

    • Stu_N says:

      1 Feb1 February 07:37

      FlyGlobespan, IIRC…

    • Erico1875 says:

      1 Feb1 February 10:24

      They were doing ok until the went transatlantic

• Charles Martel says:

  1 Feb1 February 08:00

  Does this tell us anything about the true state of aviation demand? Fares to anywhere but North America look obscene but how long can the “pent up demand” story run before it clashes with the cost of living crisis? Does the lack of faith by financiers indicate they think the post corona boom might be coming to an end?

  • Rob says:

    1 Feb1 February 08:10

    There is definite softening of hotel rates. I saw a piece on Hawaii yesterday in a hotel trade mag that said rates had been chopped a lot and NYC looks a lot cheaper in April than I paid last May.

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

      1 Feb1 February 08:15

      Last summer I booked a good rate for the usual NYC hotel I stay in.

      In November it dropped by $300 and then by the same in December. So i cancelled and rebooked,

      That’s a saving of 1/3rd of the original cost.

• Rome77 says:

  1 Feb1 February 08:06

  “If you don’t know the name, you may know the name of founder Erik G. Braathen who owned the now-defunct carrier Braathens.”

  Braathens was actually founded in 1946 by Erik’s grandfather, Ludvig G. Braathen.

  • Sean says:

    1 Feb1 February 09:46

    and still owning FlygBRA in Sweden (which was Malmo Aviation).

• BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

  1 Feb1 February 08:11

  “We encourage everyone who has booked a ticket with us to contact their credit card company for a refund”

  Rather assumes that you didn’t pay via debit card (a lot of people still do) and that if you did use a credit card the cost was more than £100.

  And if the total was for more than £100 but processed as two smaller charges of less than £ 100 then s75 isn’t applicable

• Kathryn Brousson says:

  1 Feb1 February 08:42

  Really !! We’ve got your money, were not giving it back, so try and get it back through someone else, and get the credit cards insurance ( paid for by all of us) to fork out, horrible people, no sense of responsibility or decency.

  • Rob says:

    1 Feb1 February 08:46

    They don’t have your money, obviously. It’s gone to the staff and the lessors. In face, given the wobbles they have had, it is 90% certain that the card companies stopped handing over the cash until after the travel date.

    You may remember during covid that Virgin Atlantic offered bonus miles if you paid with Paypal, because the credit card companies had stopped handing over your cash in advance.

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