Everyone has a story about travel nightmares. Canceled flights, missed connections, lost bags, and a whole host of other air travel problems. But passengers on ultra-low cost carrier Wow Air had one for the books when the airline went belly up overnight, stranding travelers, some of whom got the news while waiting to board flights at the airport.

This caught passengers off guard as Wow Air gave little warning of imminent collapse. Indeed, on Thursday, it announced that flights had been postponed and that the airline was in the final stages of raising much needed funds, indicating the flights would resume once documentation had been finalized.