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Tucked away in a BBC article advising (ex) customers of the bankrupt Zoom airline - UK insurance firm International Passenger Protection listed Zoom as one of the airlines excluded from its insurance against carrier failure. Others include LAB Airlines, Olympic Airlines, Alitalia, Frontier Airlines, and Airunion.
Guess I won't be flying with them either, then.
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IPP must have a good crystal ball...
Alitalia has just filed for "bankruptcy protection" BBC News 18.35
Posted by: Colin Donald | August 29, 2008 at 06:36 PM
Ha, good timing, Alitalia declared itself insolvent today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7588475.stm.
Posted by: James MacAonghus | August 29, 2008 at 07:02 PM