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By John Mair The low budget Transatlantic Airline Zoom collapsed yesterday leaving thousands of passengers stranded. Zoom,NFL Jerseys Authentic China, based in Canada, simply could not pay its bills due to increased fuel costs – up by 30 million dollars in the last year alone. Zoom ceased trading on Thursday 28th. Many are stranded in the UK and up to 10,000 in Britain alone have lost advance bookings.Among those affected are hundreds of Guyanese in the UK.Zoom was due to start the first UK-Guyana direct flights for two decades on November 20th.The service was planned weekly to Guyana and Trinidad. It was set up by the London-based Travel Shop and Robert Sarran. They set up Club Caribbee specially for the purpose. They had already taking deposits for the flights from the Guyanese in that part of the Diaspora. There was much excitement at the new service.Sarran described the collapse of Zoom as a ‘severe set back to our programme’ and promised ‘We are in the process of finding a replacement carrier who is prepared to step in at this late stage…..at least one carrier may be able to assist’.Meanwhile, he assured customers that he and Club Caribbee were doing all they could to ‘continue with this much needed programme which has taken a great deal of work and effort to bring it this far’.All deposits were ABTA (Association of British Travel Agents) and ATOL (Air Transport Operators Licence) – bonded.He assured those who had paid that ‘all monies paid for flights are secure and in the event that the programme is not flown are fully refundable’. |
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