NATIONAL: Thousands of passengers left without flights after Monarch Airlines goes into administration

By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Oct 2017, 08:46 BST
Updated 4th Oct 2017, 15:56 BST
Monarch Airlines has gone into administration. Picture: PA WireMonarch Airlines has gone into administration. Picture: PA Wire
Monarch Airlines has gone into administration. Picture: PA Wire
MORE than 100,000 airline passengers abroad have been left without flights after Monarch Airlines collapsed into administration.

The UK’s biggest peacetime repatriation operation is under way to return the customers home.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it had been asked by the government to charter more than 30 aircraft to bring the passengers back to the UK after the airline’s board called in administrators KPMG in the early hours of this morning.

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The collapse, the largest to hit a UK airline, has left some 300,000 future bookings cancelled and customers have been told to keep away from airports as there will be no more flights.

Monarch Airlines has gone into administration. Picture: PA WireMonarch Airlines has gone into administration. Picture: PA Wire
Monarch Airlines has gone into administration. Picture: PA Wire

Passengers are urged to check a dedicated website for advice.

Administrator Blair Nimmo said Monarch, which employs around 2,100 people across its airline and tour group, had struggled with mounting costs and competitive market conditions that saw it suffer a period of sustained losses.

CAA chief executive Andrew Haines said the decision to stop trading would be ‘very distressing for all of its customers and employees’.