Monarch Airlines has gone bust and is cancelling 300,000 bookings
Monarch, one of the UK's oldest airlines, announced it was ceasing trading on Sunday. It is the largest ever administration of a UK airline.
All future flights have been immediately cancelled, affecting an estimated 300,000 bookings.
Monarch customers in the UK: don't go to the airport. There will be no more Monarch flights. This page will no longer be monitored. pic.twitter.com/hzfQGZ0Ty8
- Monarch (@Monarch) October 2, 2017
Rumours of financial trouble at Monarch first surfaced in September last year but the airline strongly denied it was in trouble. The airline received a funding injection shortly after but has failed to turn things around. Monarch lost £291 million in the year to October 2016.
Monarch, based in Luton, was founded in 1967 and ran flights to the Mediterranean.
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