Crappy News--Another Airline Bites the Dust

[roz]

They just shut the doors-sad holidays for the employees:

LARGO, Fla. (AP) - Southeast Airlines, a Florida-based discount airline serving seven destinations along the Atlantic seaboard and in the U.S. Midwest, says it has ceased operations.

The company said in a statement posted on its website late Tuesday it "has made its final landing and has ceased airline operations. We apologize for the inconvenience this will cause to our customers."

The airline said the decision was due in part to high fuel costs. There was no answer at its Tampa Bay area corporate office early Wednesday and a company official could not immediately be reached for comment.

WTSP-TV in Tampa/St. Petersburg reported on its website that employees were called to the airline's corporate headquarters Tuesday night, given their last paychecks and told they no longer had jobs.

The airline served Allentown/Bethlehem, Pa.; Newburgh, N.Y.; Gary, Ind.; Columbus, Ohio; and three Florida locations: Fort Lauderdale, St. Petersburg/Clearwater and Orlando.

[Kristie]

Was there even any warning for the employees? that's SAD!

well, at least they didn't blame it on their employees...

that's just something I've never understood, how a business can close it's doors in a split second and not let their own people in on the scoop so they can plan ahead! esp around the holiday season! [img]images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

[TheWife]

My mom told me about this earlier, she said the employees did not know, but found out that the company has known it was headed this way for a while, and that a TON of people have tickets to fly home for the holidays but all flights as of today are cancelled! And the employees were given their checks for the last 3 weeks of work, only to get to the bank and find they would not clear! [img]images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]