FlyWhoosh

FlyWhoosh was a company that operated scheduled services to Dundee, Birmingham and Belfast before ceasing operations. Flywhoosh is a trading name of BluArrow Aviation Ltd.

History

The company had been established by Birmingham-based businessman, Aden Murcutt, representing the travel company Bluearrow/Govisit who sold the tickets. Murcutt had previously tried to set up Flywho as a transatlantic charter airline cite news | title= FlyWhoosh takes to air | work= Airliner World | page= 6 | date= July 2007] . The operation used the services and licences of the Polish charter airline White Eagle Aviation which supplied an ATR 42 aircraft and crews. Scheduled services commenced on 29 May 2007 and were suspended on 7 December 2007.

uspension of service

Services were suspended in December 2007 when White Eagle withdrew their aircraft from the operation due to problems of non-payment from the travel company. [ [http://www.whiteeagle.com.pl/en/ White Eagle Statement on suspension] ]

A number of complaints about the selling of tickets without providing a service are under investigation by the Solihull trading standards service. [ [http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2007/12/15/newsstory10692780t0.asp The Courier] ]

Destinations

FlyWhoosh operated scheduled services to the following destinations (at June 2007) [cite web | title= FlyWhoosh Destinations | work= FlyWhoosh website | url= http://www.flywhoosh.com/destinations.aspx | accessdate= 2007-06-14] :

England

*Birmingham (Birmingham International Airport)

Northern Ireland

* Belfast (Belfast City Airport)

Scotland

* Dundee (Dundee Airport)

External links

* [http://www.flywhoosh.com/ FlyWhoosh]

References