FlyGlobespan - Goes Bust

[buzby]

The Edinburgh-based no-frills long distance carrier Globespan has ceased trading today, and holidaymakers have been stranded as far away as Florida and Canada, not forgetting Spanish destinations.

 

I've used this airline before and found them to be efficient and perhaps the least worst of the no-frills carriers, anyone with bookings fore 2010 is urged to contact their card provider to register a claim for refund.

[Sol]

It's a shame to see another company go down the pan.

[MARTIN3030]

Yes theres going to be more in 2010.

[ukaviator]

It is a shame. More on the story here:

 

BBC News - Scotland's biggest airline goes bust

 

This is the helpline number, in operation at 10am today, if anyone needs it:

 

0871 271 9000

[kiptower]

and the insult using a profit sharing telephone number eg 0871

[buzby]

Agreed. Using 0871 is an absolute disgrace.

[MARTIN3030]

Alternative number ;0141 332 3233

[Thailand]

Seems like if Globespan had a chance, then E-Clear snuffed it out.

 

Globespan was 'owed £36m by E-Clear' - Travel Trade Gazette

[buzby]

Just goes to show how foolish it is depending on third parties to provide you with services that would previously have been done at low-cost 'in house'.

 

Firms (like Flyglobespan' get conned into using a third-party processor to take away the 'headaches' and to sweeten the deal, the additional expense is added to the 'processing fee' paid to the card processor - when previously it would have been your bank's Merchant Services.

 

If this isn't a warning to keep your financial processing services under your OWN control, I don;t know what is.