🇬🇧Britain's Monarch Airlines✈ Collapses, Repatriation on

The UK’s biggest peacetime repatriation is under way after the collapse of Monarch Airlines, with 110,000 customers to be brought back home on specially chartered planes.

The accountants KPMG announced in the early hours of Monday that Monarch, Britain’s longest-surviving airline brand, had been placed into administration and that all further flights from the UK had been cancelled and would not be rescheduled.

The Civil Aviation Authority said it had launched a programme to bring Monarch customers back to the UK over the next fortnight on 30 chartered 30 planes.

All Monarch customers who were due to return to the UK in the next two weeks would be flown home at no extra cost and did not need to cut short their stay, the regulator said. However, 300,000 future bookings had been cancelled.

Speaking on the BBC Today programme, the CAA chair, Dame Deirdre Hutton, said no one was “stranded” abroad, but the news for people yet to travel with Monarch was not good.

UCJ, UNILORIN.