Ny kanadisk ULCC: Flair Airlines

[Someone]

Nå svarer Flair med å saksøke leasingselskapet, som hentet tilbake flyene.

https://twitter.com/CityNewsVAN/status/1636061966040195078

Flair Airlines has filed a $50-million lawsuit against several plane-leasing companies over what it claims were unlawful seizures of four of its aircraft over the weekend.

 

[LN-MOW]

Seattle Times har gått litt i dybden ….

https://www.seattletimes.com/busine...canadian-airline-boeing-order-in-the-balance/

The repossession of scheduled airliners for nonpayment of monthly rental charges is rare in North America. Behind this incident is a new business model for buying jets created by Miami-based investment firm 777 Partners that Boeing enthusiastically embraced. Lately, it’s not going smoothly.

The Miami firm has unfilled firm orders pending for 34 MAXs. But in the final months of 2022, the firm couldn’t take 11 MAXs it had scheduled for delivery, and Boeing scrambled to find other lessors who took the planes.

 

[Someone]

De er heller ikke så flinke til å betale skatt.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/fla...npaid-taxes-prompting-seizure-order-1.6746677

Court documents show Flair Airlines owes the federal government $67.2 million in unpaid taxes, prompting the Canada Revenue Agency to obtain an order for the seizure and sale of the carrier's property.

 

[Someone]

Som andre "ferske" LCCer så trenger også disse påfyll av cash.

https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/144132-canadas-flair-airlines-looks-to-raise-cash

The carrier is reportedly looking for would-be investors who are willing to take on a "slightly higher-risk investment”, interim chief executive Maciej Wilk said. “In order to give us breathing space and comfort to continue restructuring the company, I think we would be very happy if we received like CAD100 million Canadian dollars (USD74.2 million),” he added. In a statement to ch-aviation, the carrier said it is always open to any new strategic equity partnerships that may fuel growt

 

[Scooter01]

Og de har flere triks i boken:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWpFUR7BRBo

Scooter01

 

[Blubird]

En Flair-MAX ble forleden påfløyet av en gås som dels tok turen gjennom frontruta på kapteinssiden, og visstnok påførte sistnevnte lettere skader.

Accident: Flair B38M at Toronto on Oct 24th 2024, bird strike injures captain

https://avherald.com/h?article=51fa606a&opt=0

 

[B350ER]

....tok turen gjennom frontruta på kapteinssiden, og visstnok påførte sistnevnte lettere skader. https://avherald.com/h?article=51fa606a&opt=0

Jeg trodde ikke det var fysisk mulig å komme seg igjennom alle lagene. Er dette første gang?

 

[Trdfly]

De vil fra høsten legge ned crewbasen i Kitchener, samt satse på med charterkontrakter fremover isteden for vanlig rutetrafikk for en mer stabil inntjening.

Flair Airlines (F8, Kelowna) will close its crew base at Kitchener Waterloo this autumn as a proactive step to strengthen its business in the face of ongoing macroeconomic pressures, according to Eric Tanner, VP commercial operations.

In addition, the company is introducing a strategic shift to its business model, aiming to expand into new charter operations.

Canadian broadcaster CTV News quoted Tanner as saying: “To build long-term resilience, we are expanding into new charter operations that bring stable, guaranteed revenue. This strategic shift requires us to reallocate aircraft and reduce our scheduled passenger service after the summer peak.”

Flair Airlines will reportedly continue operating scheduled flights from Kitchener, but the crew base will close on September 3.

https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/154284-canadas-flair-airlines-to-shut-kitchener-base-eyes-charter