Primera Air Ceases Operations

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Primera Air which was founded in 2009 by Icelandic Primera travel group. The airline headquarters Copenhagen Denmark. With a fleet of 7 aircraft. Five Airbus A321 NEO and 2 Boeing 737 – 800 series. The airline seems to have peeked operations with 155,000 passengers with1006 flights of July 2014, That’s a utilization of 91 per cent of seating.

Flying a mix of charter and schedule flights. Expansion of flights were announced for 2019 with 18 Boeing 737 Max-9 aircraft through Air Lease Corporation. After further review seems 2018 was showing sings of financial difficulty of plane deliveries to the airline. In addition to that some routes were being cancelled soon after being started. All operations ceased October 1 2018 and have left thousands stranded with tickets. Today others stranded at an airport holding a ticket to nowhere. At midnight GMT London England time ,there is no other information coming from the airline and many stranded passengers. According to other information crews would be found accommodations that were stranded away from there based locations and that the airline would file for Bankruptcy on October 2 2018. In April 2018 we reported Primera Air taking delivery of their first Airbus A321 NEO.

Source Airline Adviser 10/01/18