Thousands of Monarch passengers had their flights from Greece, Portugal and Spain cancelled as the beleaguered UK airline has effectively ceased selling tickets.
About 110,000 customers are currently overseas and the British government has asked the CAA to charter more than 30 planes to get them back to the UK.
This process is the UK’s “biggest ever peacetime repatriation”, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling announced.
Monarch, which employs about 2,100 people, showed a £291m loss last year.
The airline – the UK’s fifth biggest and the country’s largest ever to collapse – was placed in administration – at a time when there were no Monarch planes airborne.
Passengers, many of whom were already at airports, were then sent text messages informing them that their flights had been cancelled.
In all, the 300,000 cancellations could affect up to 750,000 travellers.
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