{"id":930535,"date":"2026-05-01T10:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/930535\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:51:19","slug":"uk-airline-plunges-into-liquidation-all-flights-cancelled-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/930535\/","title":{"rendered":"UK airline plunges into liquidation – all flights cancelled | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

An airline has cancelled all flights with immediate effect after plunging into liquidation<\/a>. It has been confirmed the airline will return its fleet of planes<\/a> and give up its UK Air Operator\u2019s Certificate (AOC).<\/p>\n

Ascend Airways<\/a>, which was founded in 2004 but operated under its current name for just three years, operated flights from Gatwick Airport<\/a> and Stansted Airport. As a “wet-lease” carrier, the airline supplied aircraft to carriers including Oman Air, Air Sierra Leone and TUI Airways<\/a>. However, it recently plunged into liquidation, ceasing all operations and cancelling flights.<\/p>\n

As reported by Metro<\/a>, Ascend Airways has given up its UK Air Operator\u2019s Certificate (AOC), a document that every airline needs in order to operate commercial flights in the UK. According to company insiders, an email was sent to staff which cited economic pressures, including the impact of the conflict in Iran on the jet fuel crisis, for the shutdown.<\/p>\n

Staff were then told that the airline would cease operations after their final flight with Oman Air had landed from Muscat at Stansted Airport on Thursday (April 30).<\/p>\n

However, it has been confirmed the airline’s Malaysian arm will remain unaffected. The airline said in a LinkedIn post: “Ascend Airways Malaysia remains operationally stable, continues to meet all its contractual obligations and is progressing on-track with communicated expansion plans.”<\/p>\n

A source previously said: \u201cIt\u2019s gone bust today, we got the news this afternoon. We\u2019ve all been given the letters that it\u2019s all going into liquidation.\u201d<\/p>\n

They added: \u201cIt\u2019s to do with the economy, we couldn\u2019t get contracts, the UK is a lot more expensive than Europe. The fuel situation had a massive effect on it as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The situation has left staff concerned about their wages, with one saying: “We\u2019re not going to get paid for May and we have to go through the liquidators. You could get up to \u00a3750 a week but we\u2019re not going to get the full amount we\u2019re owed.”<\/p>\n

Ascend Airways originally launched in 2004 under Synergy Aviation before rebranding in 2023. At the time of its collapse, it operated a fleet of one Boeing 737-800 and six Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An airline has cancelled all flights with immediate effect after plunging into liquidation. It has been confirmed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4328,260413,51,2592,256226,13196,44127,16,260414,15],"class_list":["post-930535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-airports","tag-ascend-airways","tag-business","tag-flights","tag-jet-fuel-crisis","tag-job-cuts","tag-liquidation","tag-uk","tag-uk-air-operatoru2019s-certificate","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116498942424177367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}