Swe Fly quit Lahore?

CoyBoy · Post by **CoyBoy** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:03 pm

The airline have cancelled their LHE services from yesterday any one know whats happening?

B777240ER · Post by **B777240ER** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:19 pm

Swefly Press Release
2 September 2005

The Swefly Company Group has decided to cancel all flights concerning Lahore from 6.00pm Friday 2nd September until further notice due to present circumstances.

Swefly advise all passengers to contact their travel agencies and / or insurance companies with any ticket issues.

http://www.lbia.co.uk/newsstory.php?storyid=20050902

SalamPaks · Post by **SalamPaks** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:14 pm

bugger!

Nasir · Post by **Nasir** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:29 am

Swefly Press Release wrote:...due to present circumstances.

What present circumstances. This does'nt tell us anything!

AirBlue · Post by **AirBlue** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:33 am

I'd say the horrible gas prices and the thai restrictions maybe ?ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚Â¬

behramjee · Post by **behramjee** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:10 am

the thai restrictions

what has Thai restrictions got to do with Stockholm-LHE-Stockholm flights???

this is very strange news and certainly will not help their public relations with the Pakistani community in LHE and EU-UK as their trust with them will be greatly depleted.

Nasir · Post by **Nasir** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:49 am

It's not like the following happened:

▪ Terrorist strike in LHE
▪ Immigration problems on SWE Pak pax in Stockholm
▪ High airport fees at LHE
▪ Somebody in Lahore said "boo" to some poor Swede!

I have quite a choice word for how SWE is acting like (starts with a P and ends with ssy, so I won't say it), but I think it's pretty rotten of them to arbitrarily quit Lahore!

AirBlue · Post by **AirBlue** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:31 pm

the reason y this news surprised me was that first they start 6 days a week, then suddenly they just stop......maybe GS also have doubts now due to this action on SWE fly .....

AP-BGL · Post by **AP-BGL** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:34 pm

How was the passenger load on SWE flights? May be they wont be having that much load as they were expecting to have and now resulting into suspension of flights.

piafan · Post by **piafan** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:00 pm

Perhaps it has to do with CAA new deragulation policies allowing private airlines to fly UK and US routes. Maybe they feel they can't compete anymore and not worth for them to fly to Lahore..

milano26 · Post by **milano26** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:29 am

flying 6 times a week with one gas guzzler cant be very profitable with todays gas prices

Nasir · Post by **Nasir** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:49 am

So you reduce frequency, not tuck your tail between your legs and bail...

B777240ER · Post by **B777240ER** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 12:03 pm

Swefly did reduce frequency from 6 to 5 weekly flights.

B777240ER · Post by **B777240ER** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:13 pm

SWE FLY STOPS FLIGHTS
- The owners of SWE FLY have not been able to finance the operations and the company has been forced to cancel all flights as from last Friday afternoon.

- Presently the owners are in intensive work in order to find a solution to SWE FLY?s problems. The staff of SWE FLY is ready to start operations at short notice.

- To those passengers that now are waiting for a SWE FLY scheduled flight we must regretfully admit that we still do not know when or if flights will resume.

- We encourage all customers to follow the notices on this page. Our switchboard is overloaded and we ask all, but booked passengers, not to phone. Booked passengers can contact us at +46 771 48 85 00.

SWE FLY management

Nasir · Post by **Nasir** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:22 pm

B777240ER wrote:...the company has been forced to cancel all flights as from last Friday afternoon.

...so Pakistanis should stop taking their flight cancellations as a personal insult...