Tag: Monarch Airlines

• Tuesday, October 3rd 2017 - 07:50 UTC

  Monarch collapse and ''rescuing'' 100.000 tourists will cost about £60m

  

  Flights returning 110,000 holidaymakers from overseas after Monarch's collapse will cost about £60m, according to the UK airline regulator. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has called the flights the UK's biggest repatriation exercise in peacetime.

• Monday, October 2nd 2017 - 10:25 UTC

  Monarch Airlines bankrupt; Gibraltar prepares “prudent” contingency plans

  

  Monarch Airlines has ceased trading and all of its future bookings have been cancelled, the UK's Civil Aviation Authority has said. Around 110,000 Monarch customers are currently overseas and the UK government has asked the CAA to charter aircraft to bring them back to the UK.