FILE PHOTO: Passengers line up in front of Thomas Cook counters at the airport of Heraklion, on the island of Crete, Greece September 24, 2019. REUTERS/Stefanos Rapanis
September 27, 2019
(Reuters) – UK’s Civil Aviation Authority said on Friday 72 flights are scheduled to operate to bring back a further 16,000 people to the country following the collapse of Thomas Cook.
The aviation regulator said it has brought back over 40% of the total number of passengers in the largest peacetime repatriation ‘Operation Matterhorn’ launched on Monday.
(Reporting by Aakriti Bhalla in Bengaluru; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
