Budget airline cancels all flights, told travelers 'not to go to airport'

Six months after Silver Airways first launched to vacationers that it was filing for Chapter 11 monetary anguish, the funds vacation airline is completely shutting down operations.

Silver has amassed over $500 million in unpaid debts and, after a monetary anguish public sale in the Southern District of Florida ending in early June failed to compose a single bid, the airline will now formally be equipped to Argentum Acquisition Co.

The hedge fund firm has an established historical past taking on bankrupt airways and made a stalking horse bid of $5.77 million — an amount that Resolve Peter D. Russin hoped would be topped at the final public sale equipped that this may per chance barely create a debt in recouping what's owed to collectors.

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Airline to vacationers: 'Please create now not lumber to the airport'

After formally inquiring for that Russin approve the switch to Argentum, Silver all of a sudden shut down operations and instructed passengers with booked tickets to lumber residence on June 11.

"In an try to restructure in monetary anguish, Silver entered into a transaction to sell its sources to yet any other airline preserving firm who sadly has positive to now not decide Silver's flight operations in Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean," the airline said in a June 11 assertion posted on Instagram.

The airline had been running flights to cities take care of Tampa, Fortress Lauderdale and Tallahassee as well to Caribbean locations take care of the Bahamas, St. Maarten and St. Kitts into May 2025.

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Folks that already had booked tickets to this kind of locations were instructed to now not leave for the airport and earn in contact with one's price source for cash support (presumably, trying to earn one by Silver shall be met with silence.)

"Please create now not lumber to the airport," the airline said additional "All credit card purchases should be refunded by your credit card firm or your lumber back and forth company."

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FlightRadar files shows that at the least a half of-dozen Silver flights, corresponding to Flight 128 between Puerto Rico's San Juan and St. Kitts and Flight 114 between San Juan and Saint Thomas, were canceled on June 11. A pair of on-line lumber back and forth boards straight saw sizable numbers of vacationers trying to search out files on what the monetary anguish would suggest for them and the vogue to reschedule booked lumber back and forth with yet any other airline.

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A repayment with one's credit card or varied price source is passengers' best bid for getting any cash support equipped that customers with booked tickets are thought to be unsecured collectors which would maybe be low on the compensation list amid greater debts the airline owes to airports, airplane lenders and varied sizable firms — in the spring, Orlando and the international British territory of Anguilla revoked Silver's good to fly into their airports over gathering unpaid airport prices.

The Metropolis of Tallahassee in north-central Florida has also filed a lawsuit in opposition to Silver on behalf of Tallahassee World Airport (TLH) over more than $100,000 in unpaid debts. Silver closed the Instagram put up wherein it launched that it was ending operations to commenters.

"My tips? Folks are silent gonna narrate up to the airport stressful to discuss to somebody about cash support," one traveler wrote in the /Flying forum on Reddit.

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