re: #2 Joe Bacon 🌹

The UK Guardian has live updates on the Cook collapse at the link:

theguardian.com

Transport secretary Grant Shapps announced the Government and CAA has hired dozens of charter planes to fly customers home free of charge.

In a statement, the Department for Transport (DfT) said all customers currently abroad with Thomas Cook who are booked to return to the UK over the next two weeks will be brought home as close as possible to their booked return date.

Thomas Cook package holiday customers will also see the cost of their accommodation covered by the Government, through the Air Travel Trust Fund or Atol scheme, the DfT said.

Shapps said: “Thomas Cook’s collapse is very sad news for staff and holidaymakers. The Government and UK CAA is working round the clock to help people.

“Our contingency planning has helped acquire planes from across the world - some from as far away as Malaysia - and we have put hundreds of people in call centres and at airports.

“But the task is enormous, the biggest peacetime repatriation in UK history. So there are bound to be problems and delays.

“Please try to be understanding with the staff who are trying to assist in what is likely to be a very difficult time for them as well.”

“Let’s go to Cabo! It’ll be great, love! Just tickety-boo!”

Last time it was an Icelandic pain-in-the-ash volcanic eruption (We got stuck in Scotland by that one). Now it is the failure of the largest charter airline in the UK.

Thank dog Brexit had nothing to do with it!