The website of low-cost airline Flybondi has been down since Tuesday, the latest development in the company’s operational crisis, which has been ongoing since early 2026.
On Wednesday, the site displayed a “403 Error – The request could not be satisfied” message. Argentine media outlets reported that the company attributed the outage to a crash of its main server. The Herald tried to contact the airline at its listed number but was unsuccessful.
The website was the only remaining way for potential customers to buy tickets. Travel agencies no longer offer the airline’s services amid a string of delays and cancellations.
According to FailBondi, a site that tracks Flybondi’s canceled flights, the low-cost carrier has not operated a single flight since August 6, marking 12 consecutive days of cancellations.
Its cancellation rate since the beginning of the month has exceeded 80%.
According to data from Argentina’s National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC), Flybondi carried just 13,639 passengers in July 2026, a 95% drop from the 262,373 passengers it carried in July 2025.
The decline is part of a broader downward trend. Flybondi carried 205,536 passengers in May 2025, compared with 70,863 in May 2026. Its share of the domestic market fell from 16% to 6%.
Escalating problems
The airline’s problems go far beyond punctuality.
Last week, a group of 700 laid-off workers issued a statement denouncing a three-month delay in their severance payments.
On Friday, the group protested at the metropolitan Aeroparque airport in Buenos Aires City, saying that employees who remain with the carrier have also gone three months without pay.
“We learned the news after we couldn’t access the company email. The notice arrived five days later,” one protesting employee told C5N. “None of us received compensation. There are coworkers with health problems who lost their medical coverage for treatment; people are about to become parents and have no coverage.”
Flybondi has been facing severe operational problems since the beginning of 2026.
According to the Herald’s sister publication Ámbito, the airline canceled 125 flights over two weeks in January, leaving an estimated 22,000 passengers stranded at airports across the country.
At the time, Flybondi attributed the disruption to technical problems with two aircraft and delays in putting four new planes into service.
However, according to FailBondi, the company averaged nearly 19 active aircraft per day in January. In recent weeks, that average has fallen to just three operational aircraft per day.
Banned in Brazil
In July, Brazil’s aviation authority banned Flybondi from operating three routes in the country after confirming significant operational delays.
It also ruled that the airline may not add destinations, increase flight frequencies or expand its operations in Brazil until it demonstrates that regular service has been restored.
In August, a Buenos Aires City court ordered the seizure of Flybondi’s bank accounts at the request of the Customs Collection and Control Agency (ARCA), which is seeking payment of tax debts incurred between March and June 2026 totaling more than ARS 1.4 billion (just over US$9 million).
ARCA’s claims come on top of bankruptcy petitions filed by Flybondi’s suppliers over more than ARS 600 million (US$400,000).
