Well another airline has bitten the dust. This time it’s Cimber Sterling that has fallen to the wayside. Their normal website (http://www.cimber.com/) has been replaced with a simple text announcement:
Rough translation according to Google Translate:
Cimber Sterling bankrupt – all flights are provisionally canceled
The Board of Cimber Sterling has decided to ask the company bankrupt and has therefore been filed for bankruptcy with the court in Sønderborg on Thursday 3rd May 2012 at. 06.30.
The consequence is that all flights from that time are canceled. If you should have been off with Cimber Sterling today will unfortunately therefore be futile to go to the airport. We apologize sincerely.
Cimber Sterling is registered in the Travel Guarantee Fund. That means you could get the ticket refunded if you simultaneously with the purchase of the ticket has purchased a bankrupt insurance. You will be contacted directly by the fund. If you befiunder up abroad and have a bankruptcy insurance, you will also be transported home free. Read more at Rejsegarantifonden.dk
However, if you are abroad and have not purchased a bankrupt insurance, the journey is unfortunately lost, and you must, unfortunately, even pay for alternative transport home.
If travel is purchased through a travel agent is the agent responsible for ensuring the implementation journey. Contact organizer for more information concerning. refund.
Have you paid with international credit card, you can through your bank to object and thereby see if you can get your expenses covered. If however, you paid with credit VisaDankort equated paying with cash – and you no opportunity to object apart from doing your claims in the bankruptcy estate.
We must again regret deeply.
sincerely
Cimber Sterling
Ouch. So if you didn’t buy their travel insurance, you’re pretty out of luck and will have to resort to your credit card issuer
The airline has been struggling to stay afloat after purchasing the then bankrupt Sterling Airlines, and the investors have had enoug hand pulled the plug it seems.
The current idea was to combine Cimber Sterling with Skyways, although this seems to be out of the water, sadly for the staff (with over 600 people working for them at the time of bankruptcy) and customers who are now stranded.
At the time of bankruptcy, the airline was operating
3 ATR 42-500’s, 6 ATR 72-200’s, 6 Boeing 737-700’s and 13 Bombardier CRJ-200 series aircraft (four of which were working for SAS).