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Balloon firm stops trading
From the Swindon Advertiser, first published Thursday 3rd May 2001.
Balloon firm Airborne, which took customers flying over the Wiltshire countryside, has ceased trading.
A recorded message on one of the firm's two Warminster numbers tells callers: "Unfortunately with foot-and-mouth we have been asked to postpone flying for the time being."
It directs customers to another number which is unobtainable.
The company was initially set up to run the tethered balloon ride on Lord Bath's at Longleat estate but when that closed several years ago the firm continued to offer flights in the area.
Now customers with flight vouchers have been left grounded as accountants work out how to wind up the firm.
No one at Airborne at Longleat has been available to comment this week. But the Longleat estate has managed to speak to its liquidators.
Staff there have been asked to take details to pass on to the company if worried clients call in.
"There is nothing more we can do it really isn't anything to do with us," said Longleat press officer Florence Wallace.
"This has only just happened but the liquidators have told us they will be in touch with all the people that are on their books. They have told us they will be looking after them."
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