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Travellers stranded as Monarch Airlines suspends flights
(Photo by Dean Morley/Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0)” width=”640″ height=”352″ /> The airline, the country’s fifth largest, stopped trading on Monday, warning travellers it had ceased operations. (Photo by Dean Morley/Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0)
Troubled British carrier Monarch Airlines has suspended flights after failing to resolve its financial woes.
The airline, the country’s fifth largest, stopped trading on Monday, warning travellers it had ceased operations.
Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority said in a tweet on its website that it was arranging to have 30 aircraft bring 110,000 stranded passengers back home, “at no cost to them.”
Monarch’s is the largest failure of a British airline. Efforts to reach an agreement with regulators on staying in business failed.
The airline said companies affected by its failure include Monarch Airlines, Ltd., Monarch Holidays, Ltd., First Aviation, Ltd., Avro, Ltd. and Somewhere2stay, Ltd.
It said that as of Monday, “all future holidays and flights provided by these companies have been cancelled and are no longer operating.
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