Flair Airlines says passengers were “impacted” after four of its leased aircraft were seized in Toronto, Edmonton, and Kitchener, Ont., in what the company is calling a “commercial dispute.”
Flair issued a statement on Saturday calling the move by “a New York-based hedge fund” to take the aircraft “extreme and unusual.”
It says Flair will use “additional fleet capacity to lessen the affects on passengers and it does not foresee any major disruptions to its route map.
Company spokesman Mike Arnot says a number of Flair flights were cancelled Saturday morning, but the company has three spare aircraft to backfill those flights….