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| Monarch flights cancelled as airline ceases trading | Monarch flights cancelled as airline ceases trading |
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| Monarch Airlines has ceased trading and all of its future bookings have been cancelled, the Civil Aviation Authority has said. | Monarch Airlines has ceased trading and all of its future bookings have been cancelled, the Civil Aviation Authority has said. |
| Around 110,000 customers are currently overseas and the government has asked the CAA to charter more than 30 aircraft to bring them back to the UK. | |
| Monarch is the UK's fifth biggest airline and the country's largest ever to go into administration. | Monarch is the UK's fifth biggest airline and the country's largest ever to go into administration. |
| Customers due to fly from the UK have been told not to go to the airport. | |
| Monarch had been in last-ditch talks with the CAA about renewing its licence to sell package holidays. | |
| It had until midnight on Sunday to reach a deal with the aviation authority but failed to do so. | |
| Advice to Monarch customers, issued by CAA | |
| The airline carried 6.3 million passengers last year to 40 destinations from Gatwick, Luton, Birmingham, Leeds-Bradford and Manchester airports. | |
| Monarch, founded in 1968, employs about 2,500 people and is made up of a scheduled airline, tour operator and an engineering division. | |
| Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said: "This is a hugely distressing situation for British holidaymakers abroad - and my first priority is to help them get back to the UK. | |
| "That is why I have immediately ordered the country's biggest ever peacetime repatriation to fly about 110,000 passengers who could otherwise have been left stranded abroad. | |
| The government has warned passengers to expect disruption and delay as it works to ensure there are enough flights to return the "huge number" of passengers. |