Primera Air Collapses

摘要

After 14 years in business, the Icelandic-owned, Danish-registered budget airline, Primera Air, ceased operations at midnight on October 1. The carrier had offered low-cost flights from Stansted and Birmingham to North America earlier this year, but the majority of its work was to Mediterranean holiday destinations. The carrier issued a press release just hours before it ceased flights explaining that it had been unable to find long-term financing, leaving it with "no choice" but to file for bankruptcy. It had also claimed that the late delivery of Airbus A321 neo airliners had forced it to cancel flights and lease replacement aircraft, thereby increasing its operating costs.