By Kelly Lott (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1838) on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 8:32 am: |
Hi everyone, I got an email from a friend of mine who was supposed to be going to Bonaire tomorrow. Here is part of her email. Does anyone know anything about this or why it would have happened? I'm not sure what airline she was on, but have asked her for that information.
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By Linda Richter - NetTech (Moderator - Post #1996) on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 8:39 am: |
It is DCA that went defunct.
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By Igor van Riel (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #2704) on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 8:39 am: |
Kelly, the only thing I heard this week is that DCA is going 2 be out of business very soon (bankrupt).The government pulled the plug this week.
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By Kelly Lott (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1839) on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 9:06 am: |
Well that's what I thought, they could have probably tried to re-book... but what do I know? LOL
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By Kelly Lott (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1840) on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 9:58 am: |
Okay this is even more weird, Linda, does this sound right to you? Here is more email..
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By Kelly Lott (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1841) on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 10:00 am: |
By the way, Ric is the trip leader, and I know he used to go through Caradonna, I don't know if this was through Caradonna or not this time. It just sounds like something isn't right...
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By Brian (bcj.) (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #133) on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 10:08 am: |
All the airlines Linda mentioned still have bookable tickets available on prominent travel web sites. Unless there's a big pothole in the runway, it sounds fishy.
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By Brigitte Kley - Coco Palm Garden (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #167) on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 10:15 am: |
Have a look at this discussion !!!!
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By Linda Richter - NetTech (Moderator - Post #1998) on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 10:18 am: |
I think Caribbean Air is a reference to DCA. I would bet there are some people trying to work out how to get home this weekend. Although based on BT messages, it sounds like the BON-CUR flights have been off for several days to a week.
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By Brigitte Kley - Coco Palm Garden (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #168) on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 10:19 am: |
I have not heard yet about stranded divers, till yesterday DCA was flying, not very regulary (they never did anyhow), but flying ...
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By Kelly Lott (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1845) on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 10:22 am: |
It was through Caradonna, that much I found out. They weren't notified until Monday that they weren't going. Such a disappointment, I can only imagine!
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By Brigitte Kley - Coco Palm Garden (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #169) on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 10:46 am: |
Rather surprising that Caradonna did not know earlier about the problems with DCA, it is at least 3 weeks in discussion on Curacao to declare them bankrupt ... it really started in July/August with the problems of their Amsterdam flights. At that time about 1400 passengers stranded in Curacao and the same in Amsterdam !!! They needed till the beginning of September to clean up that mess and they never restarted these flights....
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By Marabeth Owens (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #133) on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 1:20 pm: |
I agree - I've been telling my friend who was trying to get a replacement ticket for her ticket from last year that she shouldn't count on this - that DCA was in such bad shape that I would be VERY surprised if they were around by December. But if you aren't reading the papers you may not have known...
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #5163) on Friday, October 1, 2004 - 4:08 pm: |
When I left Bonaire Wednesday for a short trip north, the folks handling DCA ground stuff at the airport were saying they were hoping DCA wouldn't stop flying (too soon) as there were special DCA flights arranged to get people to/from Bonaire for Regatta (next week). Apparently over 300 people are/were booked to take DCA off island the weekend after this one. They also told me that even without the bankruptcy, DCA had no plans on flying to Bonaire after Regatta was over.
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By Kelly Lott (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1847) on Monday, October 4, 2004 - 9:05 am: |
Jake, thanks for the update.
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By Tim Nesselrodt (BonaireTalker - Post #40) on Monday, October 4, 2004 - 9:19 am: |
I booked with American online last Monday to fly on Wednesday (BON/MIA). I had no problems and each flight had plenty of available seats.
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #5171) on Monday, October 4, 2004 - 10:19 am: |
Ditto - I was on Tim's flight out :-)
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By Brigitte Kley - Coco Palm Garden (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #170) on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 - 11:04 am: |
In the news yesterday: No decision will be taken about bankruptcy of DCA before the 11th ... because the governtment deputy who is also on the board of DCA decided to be off island this week !!!!
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By Brigitte Kley - Coco Palm Garden (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #175) on Thursday, October 7, 2004 - 9:17 pm: |
looks like the last flights of DCA have been today
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