Icelandic budget airline Wow Air abruptly ceased operations on Thursday and canceled all flights.
Multiple people identifying themselves as passengers have tweeted about being stranded in foreign countries as a result of the abrupt cancelations.
It appears that Wow Air gave no indication of its impending collapse and still allowed people to purchase tickets on their site in the hours running up to its Thursday morning announcement. Rory Boland, the editor of UK consumer rights charity Which?, tweeted that as of 7 a.m. local time — about two hours before Wow Air declared its collapse — people could still book and pay for tickets on the carrier's website.that he successfully booked flights for May with Wow Air on Wednesday evening. He has now bought new flights with a different carrier.
The last Wow Air flight — from Reykjavik to Detroit — was completed on Wednesday, Flightradar24 said.— ten Airbus A321 planes and one A320 — as of March 2019. Each plane seats about 200 people.In January, the company offered
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