Blue Line stops flying

DG AIR · Post by **DG AIR** » 08 Sep 2010, 13:19

according Airliners.net Bleu Line will cease operations as of october 6.

gr.

Ger

Stratofreighter · Post by **Stratofreighter** » 08 Sep 2010, 14:37

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forum ... n/4922526/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.latribune.fr/entreprises-fin ... uidee.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/news/?id=36249" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

EXCLUSIF La compagnie aérienne de l'équipe de France liquidée

La compagnie Blue Line, transporteur charter français qui avait plusieurs fois transporté le onze tricolore, a été liquidée ce lundi. Le tribunal de commerce de Pontoise a maintenu l'activité jusqu'au 6 octobre. Plusieurs acteurs du tourisme pourraient y laisser des plumes.

La Coupe du monde de football en Afrique du Sud tourne à la malédiction pour les couleurs tricolores. Après le fiasco de notre équipe nationale, voilà que la compagnie aérienne qui l'a amenée en terre sud-africaine, Blue Line, a été liquidée, selon nos informations. C'est la décision prononcée ce lundi par le tribunal de commerce de Pontoise, plus d'une semaine après la déclaration de cessation de paiement. L'activité est maintenue jusqu'au 6 octobre 2010. Contacté à maintes reprises, la compagnie n'était pas en mesure de répondre à nos appels. L'administrateur judiciaire non plus.

Fondée en 2002, Blue Lines est une compagnie charter. Elle est présente sur le marché du tourisme (elle assure donc des vols pour les tour-opérateurs) de l'incentive (voyage organisé par une entreprise pour ses collaborateurs ou ses clients) et avait développé une activité VIP et corporate, en particulier pour plusieurs équipes de football. Ceci avec un Airbus A310, et quelque MD83 et Fokker 100. Selon plusieurs sources, plusieurs tour-opérateurs, agences de voyages et courtiers aériens, qui avaient fait des avances à Blue Line, pourraient y laisser des plumes.

En juin, la compagnie avait du renoncer à faire voler son A310 en raison d'un problème de corrosion, amplifiant les difficultés de l'entreprise.

Un fonds d'investissement était récemment entré au capital de la compagnie.

Fabrice Gliszczynski

Another French airline is coming to an end.
Blue Line will be liquidated after Oct6th.

This is surprising since no known alert about their liquidities before this announcement.

Blue line is oprating a fleet of 8 aircraft ... of three different types :

2 A310 : F-HBOY (20C / 200Y), F-HBOS (78 Executive First Class)

2 F100 : F-GNLG (100Y) , F-GNLH (52 Business Class)

4 MD83 : F-GMLI (60 Business

Class) , LK (167 Y) , LU (20C / 110Y) , LX (54 Executive VIP Config.)

cHabu · Post by **cHabu** » 08 Sep 2010, 22:45

As far as i understand the google translation, it all started with corrosion on an A310 and the
early loss of the French team in South Africa also didn't help.

SPL · Post by **SPL** » 08 Sep 2010, 22:55

Wow if that's one of the main reasons: because the French team was playing bad at the WC and leaving after the first round, the airline went bankrupt...

How on earth is this possible? So they calculated some money in, for transporting French football fans. But obviously that wasn't necessary...

Groeten Martijn

frank kramer · Post by **frank kramer** » 08 Sep 2010, 23:03

To add to the translation: it is (probably) untrue that the decision to stop flying came "out of the blue" (

). The date of October, 6 was publicly set by a French economic court at Pontoise, who last monday ruled that the company was to close down by that day (Oct.6) following a period of more than a week (so, from the end of August) in which the company had already deferred payments and was under (publicized) bankruptcy protection. A receiver had already been appointed but neither he or the company were inclined to comment on the present situation.

All the French text is saying on the role of the World Cup is that it turned into a nightmare for France: first the demasqué of the French soccer team (if team is the correct word to be used here

) and after that the nightmare has now extended to the company that had been carrying the team on a number of occasions. So, more a figurative way of speaking than a real link. Still, it might well have been that they had calculated on flying loads of fans in and out (perhaps even rented additional capacity given the problems with the A310) that did not come about following the early ousting of "Les Blues".

aviodromefriend · Post by **aviodromefriend** » 08 Sep 2010, 23:18

SPL wrote:Wow if that's one of the main reasons: because the French team was playing bad at the WC and leaving after the first round, the airline went bankrupt...

How on earth is this possible? So they calculated some money in, for transporting French football fans. But obviously that wasn't necessary...

Of course it wasn't possible to make other money by flying fans from other countries to SA... (NOT. Mind: for the final Dutch fans flew to Johannesburg in a Spanish 747)

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