Four planes flown by Flair Airlines were seized Saturday morning at Canadian airports after the discount air carrier fell behind on lease payments, the company said, stranding passengers at the beginning of the busy March Break travel season.
A spokesperson said the four Boeing aircraft were seized from airports in Toronto, Waterloo and Edmonton, but could not immediately confirm the total number of affected flights.
“That kind of action is pretty wild in the airline industry. This doesn’t normally happen in the way that it happened today,” Flair spokesperson Mike Arnot said, adding that Flair has since made the payments owed to Airborne Capital.Nik Poulimenos, a real estate broker, was booked to travel with Flair from Waterloo to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he is attending a work conference — until he received an email saying the flight had been cancelled “due to unanticipated maintenance delays.
The four seized planes were part of a fleet of 25 operated by Flair, which is based in Edmonton. Arnot said he didn’t anticipate that two others also leased from the same company would be seized since payments on those were up to date. Three other spare planes standing by for the busy summer months would be scrambled to the affected airports to plug the gaps created by the seized aircraft.
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