Flight Centre under Fyre in festival lawsuit

Tuesday, 03 Sep, 2019 0

Flight Centre’s US business has become embroiled in the latest legal action over the infamous Fyre Festival debacle.

Flight Centre’s US subsidiary is being sued as it failed to provide the agreed services for a payment of more than $120,000 it received.

According to a bankruptcy trustee for the Fyre Festival organizers, Flight Centre was paid to arrange travel for musicians but didn’t deliver on the promise.

Flight Centre received payments of $30,629 on April 12, 2017, and $90,800 on April 26, 2017, to ‘provide flights for the various music acts that were supposed to perform’, the lawsuit said as reported by the Australian Financial Review.

The event quickly descended into a fiasco almost before it had begun, with empty promises of luxury accommodations and flights in private jets for a price tag of between $1,200 and $100,000 per ticket.

"The luxury accommodations promised to festival attendees were actually disaster relief tents with plastic mattresses, which were grossly insufficient in number to house the number of attendees," court documents said.

The Bahamas music festival management was fronted by Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule.

McFarland has been convicted of fraud and was jailed for six years.

The bankruptcy trustee has also begun an attempt to receive payments made to A-list ‘influencers’ including Kendall Jenner and supermodel Emily Ratajkowski who were paid six figures for tweeting about the event to their social media followers.

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