The bankruptcy of WOW air has led to layoffs that number in the thousands. Unions and the government are rescuing some of these people.

It is an inevitable collapse for the initially ambitious but long-troubled Icelandic airline, stranding thousands of passengers.

An administrator says that discussions with several investors for various parts of the company ultimately led to nothing.

Loganair, the Scottish sister carrier of Flybmi, which stopped flying at the weekend, will pick up its Oslo, Esbjerg and Stavanger services.

The 40-year-old airline could not find €20 million in funding and recently admitted it could not pay staff salaries.

The Swiss carrier used to fly for a while for SAS on the Stavanger-Houston and Copenhagen-New York routes.

Airlines going bankrupt or operating with critically low financial resources have hit the news. And now winter is coming...