Flyglobespan entered administration on Wednesday, therefore all their 800 employees were sent home and all the flights were cancelled. The result? More than 4,500 passengers abandoned all over Europe.

Flyglobespan was Scotland’s biggest airline, carrying more than 1.5mil passengers, on 12,000 flights in 2008. The main departures city were Edinburgh, Glasgow Prestwick and Aberdeen. The company had also several transatlantic flights from Gatwick and Blefast.

Yesterday’s announce stranded 4,500 passengers in Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Egypt, although the  PricewaterhouseCoopers administrators declared that all the booked passengers were contacted. The Civil Aviation Authority is running an operation for repatriating about 1,100 of the abandoned customers. If the rest of the people booked their flights on the Flyglobespan website or at the call center, they may qualify for a reduced fare back home.

“I urge all affected passengers to identify themselves as former Flyglobespan customers to alternative carriers in order to ensure they benefit from these special repatriation fares”, said the Transport minister, Paul Clark.

easyJet and Ryanair offered special “rescue” rates to the affected passengers, where the routes overlapped with those of Flyglobespan.  The 100,000 people that have travel plans booked should be protected under the credit card transaction or their personal travel insurance.

Flyglobespan went into administration after failed efforts of signing a financing deal with the Jersey-based Halycon Investments.