Fly Globespan down the tubes

[Greedo]

Sad seeing an airline going under

5500 people stranded abroad.

Feel sorry if anyone has booked with them. I went to Prague with them 2 new years ago.

I'd be very pissed off if it was this year.

 

[aberal]

Sad but inevitable. I'm afraid that they were without doubt the worst airline I have had the misfortune to fly with.

 

[Greedo]

Sad but inevitable. I'm afraid that they were without doubt the worst airline I have had the misfortune to fly with.

I thought they were fine. both flights bang on time.

You've obviously not used Ryanair???????????

 

[gavintc]

Globespan were good - delivered and on time.

I am sad they are down the tubes. I used to fly them to Canada before I was married to see my GF. They were cheap and good value. Sad.

 

[CopperBrompton]

Anytime you book a flight with an airline for over £100, always use a credit card.

 

[solmisation]

Sad but inevitable. I'm afraid that they were without doubt the worst airline I have had the misfortune to fly with.

+1 Booked with them 3 times, flew with them once. This summer we had booked flights to Barcelona, flight was booked for Sat 1st Aug at 9.30am, received an email from Globespan flight time changed to 11.30pm, 2 weeks later another email, flights changed again, now flying out on Tues 28th July. The time before that they cancelled our return flight 1 week before we were due to fly out.
I also feel sorry for the staff who have lost their jobs and for the people stranded abroad, but if you read the reviews, http://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/flygspan.htm
the collapse was on the cards

 

[fossyant]

News isn't good...seen the prices going up for folk with the BA strike factored in.....

SHAME....

Thought we were all GREEN...... ??????????? I probably use more CO2 on my bike than in the car going to work anyway..... never mind the methane........

 

[aberal]

I flew with them 3 times. The first I had a 4-5 hour delay on the return flight from Barcelona and the third I had a 12 hour delay on the flight out to the Algarve. That cost me a 70 euro taxi drive to my apartment and worse.... a knock on series of bad experiences which badly affected my private life. The second flight (also to Barcelona) was fine.

 

[Globalti]

Charter airlines generally don't give a toss about keeping to schedules because they know passengers have no choice but to sit and wait. They don't have to feed in to long-haul flights either so they aren't damaging their own business by delaying passengers. We've had some nightmare experiences at the hands of airlines like XL Airways.

 

[kettle]

Come on Gordon Brown you were fast to put our money into the banks. Step in and help a Scottish based airline where the bonus paid to their top guys will be little or nil. The public will back you on this one.

 

[CopperBrompton]

No we won't. We had to support the banks because their failure would have had catastrophic knock-on consequences for the population.

We do not have to support horrendously incompetent airlines.

 

[kettle]

There might be plenty of airlines for you to use in the south of England, not so in Scotland but I take it that that does not matter.
I see that it is ok for banks to be incompedent.
Are you saying that the banks do not own any airlines or part of airlines?

 

[CopperBrompton]

Is this National Non-sequiteur day and I missed the notices?

 

[ASC1951]

No we won't. We had to support the banks because their failure would have had catastrophic knock-on consequences for the population.

We do not have to support horrendously incompetent airlines.

The answer is to break up the banks to a size where the incompetent ones can be allowed to go under.

Now here's a thing. The lads who are getting the bonuses are the investment bankers i.e. not the ones who caused the problem. We have been brought to our knees by the supposedly safe, run-of-the-mill, high street retail bankers lending mortgage money to uncreditworthy borrowers. Step forward HBoS, Bradford & Bingley and Northern Rock.

 

[CopperBrompton]

The answer is to break up the banks to a size where the incompetent ones can be allowed to go under.

It's not to do with size, it's about separating retail from investment banking.

The retail banks didn't suffer through their own lending (even Northern Rock was perfectly solvent), but through gambling with other people's money through their investment banking arms.

Separate the two, and failed investment banks can happily be allowed to go to the wall when they cock-up.