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Spanair just folded

elenetxuelenetxu
in Travel

If you have tickets with any flight provided by Spanair, it's time to find an alternative. The airline went out of business last night and all **** has broken loose in many airports here.

 

 

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Re: Spanair just folded

  • NDSUGirlNDSUGirl

    :(  Oh no! We have a flight on April 29th with them....better get on the phone :(

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  • NDSUGirlNDSUGirl
    One thing I love is that we didn't even get an email saying "your flight is canceled" or hey, find another way ;)
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  • elenetxuelenetxu
    To be fair, things have happened very quickly here and it just came across Spanish news last night around 8 pm. I figured I'd post something here since they're Star Alliance and many people use them for connections in/into Spain. I imagined the company wouldn't do something responsible like informing clients. Wink
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  • KimberlyS530KimberlyS530

    Really appreciate you posting!  I'd been debating booking a ticket on their airline only two days ago but (thankfully) held out... doesn't sound like they'll be up and running again anytime soon based on the WSJ article I read. 

    Now I need to find an alternate way to get from Granada to Barcelona.  :(

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  • NDSUGirlNDSUGirl
    We're in the same Granada-Barcelona boat...I know there are other options, it just stinks we are prob. out the money of the Sp.Air flights & have to fork over more $ for new flights :S....not sure how long we should wait it out to see what we need to do.  We still have ~ 3 months till our flight
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  • MDGirlMDGirl member
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    NDSUGirl, if you booked your SpanAir tickets with a credit card you can file a claim through them. Not sure how fast you'd get your money back, but I know when one of the Hawaii interisland airlines went out of business that's the way they handled refunds.
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  • NDSUGirlNDSUGirl
    MDGirl - Thanks for the tip!
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  • elenetxuelenetxu

    Here's today's update:

     

    http://www.elpais.com/articulo/english/Spanair/races/to/find/ways/to/reimburse/passengers/elpepueng/20120129elpeng_9/Ten

     

    I imagine you've paid with a credit card. Just get in contact with your bank and you should be reimbursed. Good luck!

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  • NDSUGirlNDSUGirl
    Thanks for all the information.  We were able to get a full refund from our CC & have booked a new flight with Air Europa.  Hopefully this is the only hicup in our trip! 
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