Comtel cancel Birmingham – Amritsar flights
18.11.11
Comtel Air, the airline that forced passengers to pay over £20,000 extra for fuel to fly back to Birmingham Airport has cancelled UK flights at the weekend. A Comtel flight from Amritsar to Birmingham was grounded in Vienna on Tuesday by its Spanish carrier Mint Lineas Aereas due to financial issues. Passengers said they were ‘held to ransom’ and asked to pay a total of £23,000 to continue their journey.
Comtel majority shareholder Bhupinder Kandra said money paid by passengers to travel agents had not been passed on to the airline. One of the travel agencies selling seats on the flight, Astonbury Ltd, trading as Skyjet UK, announced it has ceased trading yesterday.
Essex-based Skyjet was registered with the Air Travel Organisers' Licensing (ATOL), run by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The CAA said it would be stepping in to ‘assist repatriation for all [Skyjet] customers’, and estimated 200 currently abroad. Passengers who have not yet travelled will be able to claim a full refund via the CAA.
Birmingham Airport has confirmed the flight cancellations and said anyone due to travel should contact their agent.
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