What’s the point of fining a company €9 million Euro for closing suddenly due to a lack of money?

Right up Ryanair’s alley.. 22,000 stranded passengers willing to pay any amount of money to get to their destination. “come on down” folks, have ye’re credit cards to the fore and ready to take a pounding….

One of the nicest airlines I have flown with. Always used them on my trips over to the south of Spain. Real shame that they have gone.
Real shame they are gone and very disappointed at the way they have gone out.

That’s certainly a spanair in the works ;)

I must say if I was one of the stranded passengers I’d be delighted to take a flight with Ryanair or any other that I could get on, especially if a concession was made on the price; at the end of a holiday finances are usually not in the best position!!

But as to the bigger picture,
“The Catalan government cited the “current economic climate” and “European legislation concerning competition” as the major factors influencing its decision.”

Is this double speak for no more subsidies under austerity rules; after all it sounds like it has been subsidised for years – not that I necessarily agree with that either – but do we need to take heed here and take this as a signal of what could happen here if we don’t start to stand up for ourselves?
Don’t forget that we are in the same PIIGS group. (I hate that PIIGS accronym – GIPSI?) anyway it’s time for the countries within that group and the new ones that have been downgraded recently, and those on the periphery of downgrade status, to band together – more unison, more negotiation strength against the “big” countries of Europe who seem intent on continuing to punish us all, despite that fact that it’s obvious that that policy is doing nothing but making a bad situation worse for the ordinary citizens of all Europe.

To Wm Grogan. Ryanair are always offering “discount fares”. That term means nothing to them.

Spanair was meant to be the Catalan national carrier but that went against the centralist idea from the Spanish government who in turn has the main objective to sink any project that identifies Catalonia as a normal country. Next step: to try to merge the savings bank “la Caixa” with Bankia and transfer the headquarters to Madrid. There are also 22bn in taxes collected annually in Catalonia that never come back.
What’s the result of this? Lastest poll showing a 53% that would vote “Yes” in an independence referendum. If you are Catalan and you do not support independence there are two options only: you are a sadomasochist or you are an idiot. Apart from that there is the useless Catalan political class which sometimes it seems to be a copy of the Irish one with the only difference that in Ireland they decide the future of the country and in Catalonia they don’t decide anything because they are powerless when it comes to important matters.
To put it simple this is as if Real Madrid was managing FC Barcelona. Who do you think would win more/all competitions?

had my flights booked with them to fly to spain in three weeks ffs!!!!!!

Spanair must be run by a bunch of spanners to close down that way and leave 22000 stranded!

Ryanair to the rescue!