Thomas Cook: Final return flights touch down

The final Thomas Cook holiday to be brought home by the emergency aid comes to Manchester on a flight from Orlando on Monday.

The flight is one of the 700 organized by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) as part of "Operation Matterhorn".

The two-week operation returned 1[ads1]50,000 passengers to the UK after the package travel company collapsed last month.

The flight was one of 24 that launched on Sunday, bringing the largest return home to peacetime ever.

The CAA said that during the first 13 days of the operation, 94% of the vacationers arrived home on the day of their original departure.

"Operation Matterhorn will be completed soon. The largest peacetime service ever required extraordinary efforts from all involved," said Richard Moriarty, CAA's CEO.

The few remaining passengers who did not return on an operation need Matterhorn aircraft to make their own plans, although those covered by the Air Travel Organizer & # 39; s License Scheme (Atol) will be reimbursed.

The majority of Thomas Cook holidays were packages and are Atoll protected.

Saga continues

The Thomas Cook saga is far from over, with lingering questions about the company's collapse and future travel plans for many customers in disarray. .

The Civil Aviation Authority said it would now turn its attention to repaying the 360,000 bookings canceled when the UK's oldest travel group collapsed.

Around 9,000 employees in the UK were left unemployed when the company failed to secure a rescue deal with the latest ditch.

The travel company collapsed with a black hole of more than £ 3bn in the early hours of September 23, after failing to obtain rescue funds from the banks.

An inquiry has been launched by the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, with MPs focusing on board members of the company.

The Financial Reporting Council, the accounting watchdog, will also investigate the audit of the company.

Are you one of the remaining Thomas Cook vacations being repatriated today? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk .

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