{"id":2764,"date":"2009-02-24T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2009-02-24T04:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T04:56:00","slug":"skyairworld-stops-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/02\/skyairworld-stops-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"SkyAirWorld stops flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/traveldaily.com.au\/\">Travel Daily<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FLEDGLING carrier SkyAirWorld has announced a decision to \u201ctemporarily pause all flying operations in the short term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The carrier, which this week announced new services from Perth to Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands (TD yesterday) said the move was due to the\u201congoing deteriorating economic conditions facing the aviation industry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A number of agents have contacted TD complaining about clients who weren\u2019t notified that the Honiara service on Sat had been cancelled, with passengers offered refunds rather than alternative arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>SkyAirWorld ceo, David Charlton, said the carrier regrets the impact the decision to stop flying would have on customers and staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis action, though regrettable, is necessary to ensure the long term sustainability of the organisation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that SkyAirWorld was still committed to the launch of the new Christmas Island flights which are set to debut 03 Apr.<\/p>\n<p>The SkyAirWorld website doesn\u2019t mention the suspension of all flying operations, continuing to list schedules for three weekly flights from Brisbane to Honiara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Travel Daily FLEDGLING carrier SkyAirWorld has announced a decision to \u201ctemporarily pause all flying operations in the short term.\u201d The carrier, which this week announced new services from Perth to Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands (TD yesterday) said the move was due to the\u201congoing deteriorating economic conditions facing the aviation industry\u201d. A number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}