Strategic flights in doubt?

[syd1138]

the strategic flight from Birmingham went bang on today, particularly pleased with this as it's what i'm booked on in the very near future

Mythos here we come, D-7 and counting

[Voloudakis]

Strategic Airlines Europe have now gone bust and no longer operating.
R.I.P Strategic, it was on the cards when the Australian parent company folded earlier in 2012.
Olympic Holidays are scrambling around trying to find other carriers for the rest of 2012 to the destinations they are using Strategic Europe for.

[fenman]

From the Olympic site

10:00 - 03 October 2012
Olympic Holidays regrets to announce that as a result of information provided by Strategic Airlines it has felt compelled to end its flying contract with Strategic and to arrange for the remainder of its summer 2012 flying programme which was to have been carried out by Strategic Airlines, to be provided by other carriers.
These are: Aegean Airlines (which already provides flights for Olympic Holidays); Travel Services (an airline with a growing reputation in the Czech Republic); and an Italian airline Livingston Air. Flight timings are little changed and all clients should proceed to their departure airports as normal and use the tickets that have already been sent to them. Clients departing from London Gatwick will be travelling on a Livingston (flight code JN) flight at the same time and from the same terminal (South) as their original Strategic flight; clients departing from Manchester will be flying with Travel Services (flight code SQ) from the same terminal (2) and at the same time as their original Strategic flight.
We wish to emphasise that any change applies only to clients who have booked travel arrangements which include flights with Strategic Airlines (flight code STU). All other flights are completely unaffected.
For more information about Travel Updates call us on 0844 499 0077 or e-mail us here.

[John R]

When our transfer coach reached the airport last Tuesday (02 October) the rep came aboard to say that there would be a delay on the Gatwick flight due to Strategic having some cash flow problems. We were on the Jet2 Newcastle flight and were ok. Our friends on the Gatwick flight told us later that they had a 2 hour delay and were picked up by a Livingston flight which had been scrambled at 4 hours notice to bring holidaymakers into Crete and had no food aboard. Apparantly the crew were excellent in the circumstances - especially as they had a serious medical emergency on that flight as well.

Similarly some people from Plakias due to fly out on a Birmingham flight were told they would now have to fly out from Chania to Gatwick and then make their own way to Birmingham and claim back either train fares or bus fares but not taxi fares. They were told this while dining near us  in the Medousa Restaurant the evening before their early morning flight. Apparantly the replacement Birmingham plane did not have enough room for all passengers and some had to take this alternative route.

My opinions are that Olympic did quite well to organise these flights at such short notic. Must have cost them something. However we are coming independantly next time !!