Kiss airline fails as passengers’ holiday plans get ruined

Over 60,000 holiday-makers have had to cancel their holiday plans, or had their plans disrupted, after travel firm Kiss Flights has announced its collapse.

18 August 2010, 12:00am
by Martina Said

1 min read

Thousands of travellers who booked package deals with the company will probably not be getting their money back, while the “vast majority” will eventually get their payment back.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced that around 13,000 people who booked their flights through the company will get home as normal.

The airline firm, based in Britain, operated flights to Greece, Egypt, Turkey and the Canary Islands. It liquidated after its owner Flight Options stopped trading yesterday night.

A spokesman from the CAA said "Because the company has failed at the height of summer, the CAA is also putting in place arrangements to allow people to travel out on their holidays for the next 24 hours, to minimise confusion and protect passengers."

Customers with flights leaving the UK before 6pm today have been told their trips will operate as planned. Kiss, the major trading name of Flight Options, is the latest British holiday firm to crash and burn.

Kiss flights catered for many of the same routes as Goldtrail Holidays, another firm which also recently collapsed, so travellers may see their holiday plans ruined yet again.