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Old Jan 28, 2012 | 4:21 am
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alanw
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I was scheduled to fly them BCN-LPA on Friday. Luckily as soon as we saw the news we bought new tickets on VY and are good to go. So far it seems that there isn't a lot of chaos at the airports, though JK's web site includes an onerous-sounding statement that they will try to keep ticket offices open if safety and security permit.

This is coming as a surprise because everyone assumed QR were going to buy them. When talks fell through on Thursday JK were left with no options for more operating capital and the Catalan government is broke so couldn't "help them out" again.

13 hours ago they posted what was, for me, a very sad last tweet, saying goodbye and thanks for everyone's confidence during the years.

There are one million families in Spain that have all members unemployed. This is going to add another two thousand people looking for work.
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