Icelandic airline Wow Air collapses and cancels all flights

[brooklynite]

Source: CNBC

Iceland’s low cost carrier Wow Air has canceled all flights and told passengers to book with other airlines.

Its website has a travel alert which begins: “Wow Air has ceased operation. All Wow Air flights have been canceled.”

The alert said people who wanted to travel should now look for “so-called rescue fares” which may now be offered by rival airlines.

Wow added those who made bookings by credit card or via a European travel agent should try to get their money back through those businesses. It added that some passengers may be entitled to compensation from the airline itself.



Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/28/icelandic-airline-wow-air-collapses-and-cancels-all-flights.html

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Wow Air flew to Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and San Francisco.

[madaboutharry]

1. After watching the video it became obvious what WOW really stood for:

"Wow, how did I end up buying this shitty ticket!"

[spinbaby]

2. A shame

They flew into Pittsburgh, which has little enough competition.

[dalton99a]

3. Wow

[IronLionZion]

4. I actually flew to Iceland with Wow last year

and had a good experience. Competition is good for consumers so I expect there will be higher prices and fewer visitors to Iceland now that they lost one of their 2 long distance airlines. There are several options from Europe but few from the US.