Airlines that cease flying

I think the airlines can't cope with the rising fuel costs, and it doesn't help when they are charging so little for their flights. I can't believe RyanAir is still flying as my flights to Dublin were free!

A lot of the lesser well known or cheaper airlines can't compete with the ones that are more established because of fuel charge increases so they end up going bust because people are not willing to pay a high price for the flights anymore. x

It's very worrying. I booked a flight to Australia a month ago, and I don't fly until Dec 15. I worry that the same thing could happen, and I'd lose my money. However the airline I have booked with is backed by Singapore Airlines, so should be secure. Having said that, large airlines have also gone under. BOAC and Panam are two good examples.

Hi maximax8! Yes, this is a bad thing! Economy is really not doing well globally and the airlines are being affected with the high prices of oil. Airlines are one of the main means of transportation to bring all countries together and if many airlines will be closing down, a lot of people will be affected. Take care always..God Bless!

I think soon it will be harder and harder to fly anywhere and we will have fewer and fewer airplanes to go on. The gas/oil prices are a crisis, but no one in power over here seems to see it. People are terrified for winter up here. People are barely making it during the summer, goodness knows what they'll do for winter.

That's quite sad, especially if the airline serves its customers well. I noticed a different thing in my country. I think there are now 4 express airlines serving provinces with smaller airports. I am very glad with this because it means that remote places are being reached. Airlines here, 3 of them had only those really big planes for international flights before. Domestic flights have 707's or 747's or air bus but these were still big for provincial airports. Now, 2 airlines added to these 2 propellered plane' airlines where people could take in going to tourist destinations with small airports. My family took this kind of plane once, we were on our way to Boracay, I could not say we were very comfortable. My son said, it was like we were on a bus, but it was definitely fine. For the price, not much of difference with the big planes' fare. Im sure your Zoom airlines has other airlines for an alternative. Im sure they had financial problems. Usually if the airline is not doing good, a bigger company will purchase it and resume operations.

Hello my friend, I am wondering, correct me if I am wrong that it is to do with the raising fuel prices coupled with the fact that we are starting to go into another recession, people are not able to afford to travel by place, due to the rising costs. They face stiff opposition as well as fading numbers of passengers. There may be other factors of course, but these seem to be the most viable as to why airlines are feeling the pinch and operations are vanishing.

I think this is mainly due to the current oil prices... the sudden increase is taking a toll of a lot of the transportation industry... an increase in oil prices would mean increase in transportation fees and that would mean a decline on people who would travel by plane... In my country, the government just imposed an increase in the transportation fare... and that is really a bad thing for a lot of us here... but i have not heard any airline companies ceasing to fly...

well all depends on what do u mean "ceased" operations.... just take over there flights? like taking theiur buisness, or stopping them from flying for some reason??... of like hijacked planes?

its because of fuel prices maximax, they can't keep up with the bigger companys, sad really

I have not flown for a long while now but I see the news as to what is going on regarding the Airline industry. There's nothing good to say about it, it's all bad news! The cost of fuel is going up and this is causing tremendous financial difficulty for the airlines and I guess things aren't going to get any better. This is a bleak outlook I know but I think it's true. When I did fly I loved the experience! They are saying nowadays that you should refrain from flying if you don't have to. Well, I want to fly because I just love it. It's a real shame that it's come to this regarding global warming etc. I love flying and pretty soon we will be flying into space!!!! Andrew