Monarch: what to do if you have flights booked with airline

Uk's fifth-largest airline goes into administration, leaving 110,000 customers stranded abroad

Brits queue at Schiphol Airport
(Image credit: Evert Elzinga/AFP/Getty Images)

The news that Monarch, the UK’s fifth-largest airline, was going into administration and cancelling all scheduled flights threw thousands of holidaymakers into panic this morning.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it is launching a massive operation to ensure the 110,000 Monarch customers left stranded abroad get back to the UK - but for the 300,000 people booked to fly with the airline in the coming weeks and months, the future is uncertain.

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