Posted on August 29, 2008 by Fiona Hilliard

Up to 900 passengers were left stranded on both sides of the Atlantic yesterday when budget airline Zoom grounded all flights after announcing that they were going into administration. 

The airline blamed its financial difficulties on huge rises in fuel bills as a result of the high price of oil.

Zoom’s money troubles first came to light on Wednesday when a Zoom flight from Paris to Calgary was grounded at an airport in Canada. 

Meanwhile, the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority yesterday ordered a Halifax bound flight to be detained at Glasgow airport over the non-payment of charges. 

Passengers then began queuing for a flight to Vancouver which never left the ground.