The airline announced June 1 it had appointed McLeod and Partners as administrators and that all operations had been “temporarily suspended”.
It advised customers to contact their credit card company “to consider your options with respect to a refund of your ticket purchase”. They could also lodge a claim with the company, it said.
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The privately-held company operated a fleet of five Embraer regional Jets and serviced brisbane Airport, melbourne’s Essendon Airport and a number of regional centres.
The decision comes after the Dubbo Regional Council took steps to have the company wound up over a long dispute over the calculation of passenger taxes at the local airport.
The council’s lawyers said the airline owed $271,917.57 and the council had been actively communicating with the airline for 12 months about its debts.
“Following months of ongoing direct negotiations with JetGo, Council then issued a statutory demand in the first instance,’’ the lawyers said in a statement…