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Today, sadly, another airline has collapsed. I'll explain what went wrong with Stobart Air and what it means.

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This morning, anybody turning up at George Best Belfast, Belfast City Airport to fly to Manchester to Birmingham to East Midlands

to Leeds to Edinburgh will have found that their flight was showing cancelled. The reason

Stobart Air has collapsed. Now you might be thinking Stobart, who? I've never heard of them. I'm sure it

doesn't affect me. Well, this is the airline that actually did lots of flying on behalf of

Aer Lingus Regional. So, effectively, it did all the short-haul flights that Air Lingus itself wasn't going to do,

mostly between Dublin and Belfast, connecting them with points in Great Britain.

And it had been going well as Air Aran for over 50 years, but as with all, regional airlines, it's had a particularly

tough time and they say with a collapse in traffic of 94%. There was no choice once a planned

rescue bid went wrong. So therefore the network has been shut down and therefore thousands of people are trying to

find out how they're going to get where they are going as well of course as 480 travel

professionals who very sadly have lost their jobs.

Now, if you're stranded and you need to travel urgently,

you should see if there's a suitable rescue fare available on another airline.

This is absolutely standard practice when an airline collapses. What basically happens is that the rival airlines,

they could put up their fares and say,

ha ha, we're going to make a fortune after this,

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