Tor Air cancel flights to Portugal at short notice

 

The charter airline Tor Air, which has links to Phil Wyatt (former boss of the failed XL Leisure Group) has announced cancellations of its flights to Faro. The Evening Standard paper printed yesterday that the company has ‘abruptly cancelled a string of summer holiday flights, leaving hundreds of British holidaymakers in the lurch weeks before they were due to fly’.

 

According to the Evening Standard, a spokesman for the airline said poor sales were to blame for the decision to end its weekly flight between Gatwick and Faro in July and August.

 

In addition to this, a second route between Gatwick and Bourgas in Bulgaria is ‘probably’ going to be axed, according the report, which was printed in the paper’s business pages.

 

The airline’s spokesman told the Evening Standard that all other flight are operating as normal and that there are ‘no financial problems’.

 

The paper was told by one customer affected by the cancellations that they were e-mailed about the flights 20 days before they were due to travel.

 

The report in the Evening Standard stated that Wyatt, his brother James and former XL finance director Halldor Sigurdarson are directors of Meridian Aviation UK Limited, which owns the domain name flytorair.com. James Wyatt is a director of Flytorair.com Limited.

 

Tens of thousands of passengers were left out of pocket in 2008 when XL collapsed.