Zoom Airline Shuts Down - AC Offers Help to Passengers

In light of the Zoom Airline bankruptcy, Air Canada indicated that is was making special, low fares available on a one way basis to assist stranded Zoom Airlines customers who were planning to travel between Canada and France, the UK and Italy.

The fares are available for purchase in either direction at approximately 60 per cent off AC’s current lowest return fare. Those special fares went into the AC system late Thursday afternoon).

However, the carrier notes that while it will do its best to accommodate Zoom passengers, the Labour Day weekend is one of its busiest times of the year and right now its flights are very full, so in some cases it may take a few days for seats to become available.

Peter Fitzpatrick, a spokesman with Air Canada warns passengers that some of the discounted fares may be hard to come by due to the end-of-summer travel rush.

"Most of our flights are very full over the coming days as vacationers return home (in both directions, between Canada and Europe). However, we will do our best to accommodate Zoom customers on a first-come-first-served basis," he says.

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