Sursa:BBC
Data: 16 oct2008
Spanish-based airline LTE International has suspended operations after telling Spanish authorities that it was in serious financial difficulty.
LTE's website stopped taking bookings late on Thursday after it said it could not cover costs for the next few days.
The company said several thousand passengers had been affected by the cancellation of flights, including some who were stranded in Spain.
LTE runs flights from Spain to the UK, Italy and Saudi Arabia.
It has 300 staff and a fleet of seven Airbus 320s.
LTE said fewer than 100 passengers for scheduled flights were stranded in Alicante, Palma and Barcelona. They had been due to travel home to Norwich over the weekend.
It said it would refund the cost of their flights, but was unable to lay on alternative transport.
Separately, it said approximately 3500 LTE passengers had had their charter flights from Tenerife to destinations all over Europe cancelled.
They include 700 passengers who were due to return to Britain.
But LTE said British tour operators were legally obliged to find alternative carriers for these passengers. It said Cosmos and similar companies were already doing so.
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