I'm hoping Kiss gets the early demise it deserves.

"What good is it if you gain the whole world, yet forfit your soul"

There is sooo much in to this that not many people is aware.... Watch this space. I am sending an e-mail to Lucy Huxley to give her a few tips. Lets see if she will follow it or not

You know what is more sad Justin...CAA is given Atol protection licence to Kiss flights which is run by those failed Freedom Flights MD....what abut our rights...what about our hard earned cash has been taken by those failed bosses...and will never paid back to us...where is the JUSTICE my dear friend Justin.....

What a country...Flight companies and Financial Institutions are all ripping off the ordinary people and nobody takes any action to save those hard earned people...They are busting and after couple of months they are all coming back with different named companies to rip us more....Nobody question those MD's why all those failed companies are took our hard earned cash....Those MD's are now laughing behind their big tables and making new plans to "kiss" us hard again....and sad thing is there are still people in this industry to support them...sad so sad...when we will learn that we are the power when we all come together......

Already had been kissed by XL ( Freedom Flights)...and I do not want to be kissed again by Kiss Flights..They even taken deposit for 2009..if they were honest they will not collect deposit for 2009 until last minute.....I think those failured company bosses or directors should have been banned at least 5 years from forming new company or chosen as directors....My opinion "no way out" those failed ones..and I will never support them....Lion Right

I note that Andre Cashia is also a director in Viking Airlines.....

I wish kiss flights all the best, and especially paul and michael. We are in an industry that very quickly turns the good guys into villians. Paul moss was devastated about the colapse especially as freedom flights were not the main cause of the colapse of the xl group. We, as agents, have enjoyed 10 years of competative prices and good destinations on offer from freedom, as well as many very good incentives and not to mention the freedom weekends for the last 4 years where we were all treated as equals and friends. Its such a shame people forget this in a whim. We have been all affected by the xl colapse but life goes on, and if there is another flight provider offereing even a fraction of the flights freedom did we should get behind them not against them as it is in all of our interests.
best of luck with kiss.

yeah, allright William, JOG ON

David, there is nothing wrong with competition, in fact the travel industry thrives upon it. What is being called into question in these comments and elsewhere across the web is the fitness of some to provide that competition. Your sign-off requesting a "kiss" not only demeans the plight the independent tour operators who have lost money or even gone bust through the miss-management of the XL pyramid, but also to the tens of thousands of holidaymakers in misery and all those XL staff outside of the boardroom who were unwittingly working their socks off, unaware that the head of the XL beast was dysfunctional. I was astounded to read Paul's comments in his interview with Lucy; to gloat over the availability of 2nd hand aircraft was beyond the pale.

I have to say Im delighted about Kiss Air. / flights. Obviously it offers potential for new jobs and some much needed competition in the UK charter market.
All these negative people on here just havent got a clue ! everything you say would just lead to a monopoly of Thomsons/ Thomas Cook. I suspect alot of supposedly squeeky clean "travel industry experts " were more than a little involved in pushing XL under. Give me a kiss

Do these people know no shame ?

Delighted to see the negative responses to this charade.

Please remember that my company, the original freedom flights, is in no way connected to this bunch and is still trading after 20years and attempting to protect my good name and reputation.

I for one will be informing as many people as possible as to the the structure of this new venture and wish it the future it deserves

After a week of turmoil in our company and thousands of extra hours of grief and stress we have finally emerged from the disaster that was XL's collapse. While my many hundreds of staff have been hard at work recovering from this situation it is heartwarming to learn that those responsible have already moved on to pastures new and set up another potential disaster somewhere down the road.
I was explaining to my 7 year old Grandson what had happened when he asked me "why cant my friends fly home from their holiday" what had happened and he replied "Could I get a plane and fly them home". He didnt realise the significance of his remark, for quite clearly one would have to imagine that the answer to his question is probably "YES you can" for this Government and the CAA to me seem totally ineffective in really controlling who is able to operate an airline and how regulated it should be. We have a difficult time ahead rebooking the thousands of customers that have been left stranded by this collapse. I personally though will do everything in my power to ensure that throughout our company we no longer run the risk of the exposure we have just incurred and that we will deal only with reputable partners going forward. To do anything else now would be completely irresponsible.

I have always been uncomfortable with the "same old, same old" faces popping up after a collapse. This is about as subtle as a brick through a plate glass window. I for one would not dream of selling a Kiss flight or having them anywhere near the place - and I thought that before reading the previous posts concerning this article. Having dropped an awful lot of people in it, one would have thought that to lie low may be more appropriate. Using the "Nuernberg Defence" (It wasn't me, guv, I was only following orders) does not work. Someone this close to the top either a) must have known what was going on and is therefore taking the you know what or b) if they didn't, could only be described as incompetent. Frankly, I doubt if anyone else would trust these people.

Sorry, just how stupid do they think we are?
We at XL did route studies for Viking who are supplying the aircraft. Its the same routes for the same passengers. He actually says that Freedom Flights has been supplying 3rd party operators for 10 years, and then claims its not linked to XL as most seat sales are to 3rd party operators...
Everyone at XL has been talking about Kiss for months. Michael left months ago to set it up and wait for him to join. Someone has a porsche with a personal number plate that reads KISS FLY from a distance...
Please..... if you are going to shaft us at least have the nerve to do it to our faces...
And first word of fourth paragraph should be Moss not Smith.

yes as it appears,making ways and filling up pockets,if the Regulators can even start to make head ways,making people accountable,may be one day 50 years later one would see a little progress,i speak from experience,just remember what happened to Freddie Laker!this is not far away from that!

I find it difficult to accept that an MD of Freedom flights leaves XL group just before bankrupcy, and conveniently 3 days after liquidation announces his new position. To me this is a spin off opportunity for coverage on a new company. As any Marketeer will tell you "even bad publicity is better than no publicity".

It is then referred to as 25% of all customers of Freedom Flights went to third parties. You may want to ask these third parties if they would be delighted to work with a company clearly connected to Freedom flights and all the management after losing £££ off the face of this unfortunate & unpredictable event.

Marketing is at an all high shallow point.