Air Australia could be in trouble?

[Bernie P]

THE administrator of Air Australia has recommended that stranded passengers try to find alternative arrangements to fly home as soon as possible.
Administrator Mark Korda, of Korda Mentha, said it had been contacted early today and appointed as administrators of Air Australia after the company was unable to pay for fuel.

"Overnight the company was unable to refuel its planes in Phuket, the directors appointed us at 1.30am this morning and the boys have been working throughout the night to deal with what's a very difficult situation," Mr Korda told Fairfax Radio in Melbourne.

Up to 4000 passengers were currently overseas with Air Australia return tickets and Mr Korda advised them to try to find alternative arrangements to fly home.

"We strongly recommend that people organise their return flights sooner rather than later," he said.

He said administrators would work through the weekend to try to find a "white knight" to save the airline.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/business/brea...#ixzz1maG3uIMk

[Andrew M]

Moral of the story, stick with major airlines really!

There were just too many rumours about Air Australia and it's cash issues to have any confidence to book with them

It's a shame

[Danny Rizk]

Big shame... They appeared to be expanding with a fresh new look...???

[Carsten Bauer]

YQB in PER.
Staff came into work this morning, only to be seen walking back to the staff carpark

[Nathan M]

Serves them right with a business plan that was that crap or even lack there of no surprise really.

[Darren Butterworth]

Most importantly, I never even got to photograph the new livery

[Mario Facchini]

I would love to know how so soon after being given licence to trade and fly, that they went bust !

i mean barley half a year !

[Brad M]

Originally Posted by Ryan Hothersall

Shame anotber airline bites the dust.
Will miss seeing this livery.
http://www.myaviation.net/search/pho...hp?id=02100778

yeah , such a common sight in ADL....lol

[Bernie P]

At least, the QF group are helping out stranded passengers... (as with HA)

QANTAS and Jetstar have stepped in to help hundreds of Australian travellers stranded overseas after budget airline Air Australia was placed into administration.
More than 4000 domestic and international travellers will be affected, included Australians stuck in Phuket, Thailand.

A press release given to passengers at the airport said the airline’s fleet would be grounded indefinitely and told travellers to make alternate travel arrangements.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/b...#ixzz1manYEzfF

[Jack Melon]

Saw this coming for a while now.. so not surprised.