It doesn’t look good for Mexicana Airlines. According to their website:
Grupo Mexicana suspends flights until further notice
Current management received the company in a state of technical bankruptcy seven days ago after it filed for protection under Mexico’s insolvency laws
Financial deterioration and lack of agreements force Grupo Mexicana to stop flying
Grupo Mexicana deeply regrets any inconvenience [...]
SilverJet enters the deep and dark deathpool:
All 420 workers at Silverjet, the troubled business-class airline, lost their jobs yesterday after an attempt to get the airline flying again collapsed.
A rescue deal for the airline had been suggested this week by Kingplace, an Irish shell company managed by Heritage, a Swiss investment group. However, talks broke [...]
Another airline bites the dust. This one, EOS Airlines, was a business-traveler specific carrier with hefty price tags and twice-a-day NYC-to-London flights.
From the Associated Press article about the demise:
The airline reconfigured Boeing 757s meant for 220 passengers with 48 seats that could extend into a fully flat bed. Flights served wine, champagne, cocktails and gourmet [...]
Yes, this post is late to the deathpool party. Aloha Airlines said adios what, two weeks ago? yes.
From Aloha Airlines’ website:
This is an important announcement from Aloha Airlines
Sorry…
After more than 60 years of serving Hawaii Aloha Airlines is no longer operating its Passenger Services operations.
…
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Skybus airlines, not even one year old, gave up the ghost / turned in the timesheet / bought a one-way ticket to the great bus in the sky on Friday. All flights for Saturday and after? Gone. If you’ve got complaints about Skybus, post them here (and if you have praise for that airline, you [...]
With the many airline deaths and impending deaths in the news, it was clear Flight Blog needed a new category of posts to address these casualties of the air business. Thus, you get the Airline Death Pool category on Flight Blog. Welcome, aloha, death pool — I know there’s not much that’s swimming in you [...]