Cash woes airline is grounded; TRAVEL.A LOW-fare airline last night suspended operations and cancelled all flights after running into financial difficulties. The move began when Zoom had a plane detained at Calgary Airport because of the problems. Then a Canada-bound Zoom aircraft was prevented from leaving Glasgow following an instruction from UK's Civil Aviation Authority Civil Aviation Authority civil (Brit) n → Behörde f für Zivilluftfahrt . A spokesman for Zoom - which serves thousands of customers in the Republic - described the action as "a tragic day for our passengers and more than 600 staff". The airline operated from Gatwick, Glasgow, Manchester, Cardiff and Belfast, as well as Paris and Rome, to eight destinations in Canada, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Fort Lauderdale and Bermuda. |
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