Danish low-cost airline Sterling, to file for bankruptcy

Danish-based low-cost carrier Sterling Airways said today it would file for bankruptcy after its cash-strapped Icelandic investors were unable keep the company airborne, the Guardian reported earlier today. Sterling connects Alghero airport to several Scandinavian destinations with charter flights as well as Olbia Costa Smeralda airport with regular flights to Copenhagen and Billund during the summer months.

Sterling adiveses its customers on their website today als follows:

Information to Sterling Passengers
Customers who have directly purchased their tickets on Sterling’s website will unfortunately not be refunded neither will their return flights. You therefore have to book your return flights with another airline company.
If you have paid for a flight by credit card, we advise you to contact your bank or credit card company to ask for a possible refund.
Customers who have booked their flights through a travel agency or tour operator should initially contact them.
Passengers who have booked their tickets through Sterling, but is flying with Norwegian, should contact Norwegian directly on one of the below phone numbers:
+47 21490015 (from outside Norway)
815 21 815 (from Norway)
Passengers currently staying abroad in hotels, or hiring a car through Sterling business partners, are still able to stay in their hotel or keep the hired car for the relevant period of time, as such services are paid for through our business partners and not Sterling. However as for your return flight, you will need to find alternatives
for your final destination.
Please note that if you have booked your travel/hotel/car through a travel agency or tour operator, please contact them upon your return for possible refund of expenses for your return flight.
We understand that most travel insurance does not protect holders from airline
insolvency but should you have taken insurance please contact your insurance
company for clarification. We will later put on a FAQ and hope that this will
help you in this very unfortunate situation.
Sterling Airlines A/S
29th
October 2008