Icelandic low-cost airline WOW Air announced on Thursday that it will cease operations and cancel all flights, a decision that is expected to affect thousands of passengers. By Hamza Shaban Hamza Shaban Technology reporter Email Bio Follow March 28 at 9:01 AM Iceland’s budget airline Wow Air announced early Thursday morning that the company had ceased operations, canceling all its flights, and stranding passengers around the world.
Wow Air did not include information on the alert detailing those fairs, but said “Information on those airlines will be published, when it becomes available.”In a section of the alert with the heading “What are my rights?” the airline outlined how some passengers may be entitled to compensation for their canceled flights.
On Twitter, stranded passengers expressed their frustration and tagged the company and other airlines in apparent efforts to get home. — patrick kuijf March 28, 2019 @wow_air cancels flight to Dublin from Detroit at the last minute, looks like the company has gone bust. Any chance you can accommodate a family of four on @AerLingus out of Chicago or Tornado tomorrow the 28th. You would make this little girl Maeve very happy to see her cousins pic.twitter.com/jMnmWSh6zI
funwithchuckles hopefully FlyFrontier isn’t too far behind them.
Well there really is only one word to describe this: unfortunate.
Iceland can go back to being a country no one has heard about. 👋
You would think better headlines would almost write themselves...?
imagine having an unaccompanied minor on one of these flights headed to see grandma?
Teresa__Palma ☹️😬☹️
Was this another airline venture run by Trump?
Being in the industry, I can assure people that once again...you get what you pay for. In addition,...*ALWAYS*, *ALWAYS*, *ALWAYS*,...take out trip insurance!!!
Rebranding as welp air
The people always get fucked.
They are now Whoops Air.
😳 Almost booked them for my vacation in a few days. Glad I didn't.
All I can say is............ WOW!
WOW
Yikes
That's surprising. There's an exclamation that denotes that sort of thing, but I can't think of what it is right now.
Wow
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