Bankrupt airlines must fly passengers to home
Bankrupt airlines must fly passengers to home.
Planes owned by failed airlines will be used to repatriate their own customers under government plans to avoid a repeat of the Thomas Cook collapse.
Ministers are due to announce today that legislation will be introduced to force a collapsed carrier’s aircraft to continue flying for a short period to return its holidaymakers to the UK.
The move is expected to cut costs to the taxpayer after the government was required to step in to rescue more than 140,000 Thomas Cook customers stranded overseas when the tour operator collapsed last month.
