First flight bringing Thomas Cook customers home from NYC takes off
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Flights carrying stranded Thomas Cook customers have started arriving home today amid mounting fury over how its bosses plundered £30million in pay and bonuses before Britain's most famous travel firm went to the wall.
The first of the rescue planes, plastered with the company's famous livery but operated by pilots and staff from US-based Atlas Air, took off from New York's JFK airport this morning and will land in Manchester at 5pm today.
Flights have also taken off from Croatia, Crete and Spain this afternoon as the repatriation of 160,000 British citizens - the largest since the Second World War - gathers pace.
But there was chaos at airports in Spain, Turkey and Tunisia where thousands of holidaymakers including the elderly and young children waited for up to 12 hours in overcrowded airports to be evacuated - and some planes meant for Gatwick, Newcastle and Glasgow will now land at Birmingham and Manchester.
Thomas Cook's 178-year history ended in ignominy for its wealthy bosses today, who have been paid more than £20million in bonuses alone over the past five years - despite the business creaking under £1.7billion in debt and a £500million pension deficit since 2013.
Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom has called for an urgent inquiry into the collapse and the actions of its bosses, including its Swiss chief executive Peter Fankhauser, who has pocketed £8.3million since taking over in 2014. Mr Fankhauser and his two predecessors took home almost £30 million in pay.
There were tears at Thomas Cook's Peterborough headquarters today as 9,000 UK staff lost their jobs and were told they would not be paid this month after the world's oldest travel operator went bust.
Today a £100million taxpayer-funded fleet of 40 or more planes - temporarily making it the UK's fifth biggest airline - is heading to cities and resorts across Europe, 개인회생자인터넷설치 America, north Africa and Asia to bring 160,00 Britons home from more than 50 destinations including 50,000 people in Greece, 30,000 in the Canary Islands and 20,000 in Turkey.
Britain's biggest peacetime repatriation effort, codenamed Operation Matterhorn, will see around 16,000 people flown back to UK airports every day with the backlog taking a fortnight to clear.
Thomas Cook cannot bring its own customers home because it lost its licence and insurance to fly when it went bust this morning - but some of its planes are being used by the Civil Aviation Authority to rescue those stuck abroad.
The Boeing 747 (left), carrying the travel company's famous livery but operated by pilots and staff from US-based Atlas Air, took off from New York's JFK airport at around midnight local time and will land in Manchester at 5pm today (right)
A passenger sobs on the phone after arriving at the closed Thomas Cook check-in desk at Gatwick today
Chaos at Son Sant Joan airport in Palma de Mallorca today as the business collapsed leaving tens of thousands needing a flight
There were similar scenes at Enfidha International airport near Sousse in Tunisia as customers arrived to find Thomas Cook had gone into liquidation
The last Thomas Cook flight into the UK lands at Manchester airport after taking off from Orlando overnight
Passengers disembark a Thomas Cook aircraft at Manchester Airport as the curtain came down on the travel company
Peterborough: There were tears at Thomas Cook's HQ as staff left with their belongings this morning with 9,000 UK workers losing their jobs
Staff were called into the HQ for a meeting this morning where they learned their jobs were gone and they would not be paid this month
As Britain's oldest travel company went bust and a fleet of empty planes is heading out to rescue Thomas Cook passengers, it has emerged:
The first of the rescue planes, plastered with the company's famous livery but operated by pilots and staff from US-based Atlas Air, took off from New York's JFK airport this morning and will land in Manchester at 5pm today.
Flights have also taken off from Croatia, Crete and Spain this afternoon as the repatriation of 160,000 British citizens - the largest since the Second World War - gathers pace.
But there was chaos at airports in Spain, Turkey and Tunisia where thousands of holidaymakers including the elderly and young children waited for up to 12 hours in overcrowded airports to be evacuated - and some planes meant for Gatwick, Newcastle and Glasgow will now land at Birmingham and Manchester.
Thomas Cook's 178-year history ended in ignominy for its wealthy bosses today, who have been paid more than £20million in bonuses alone over the past five years - despite the business creaking under £1.7billion in debt and a £500million pension deficit since 2013.
Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom has called for an urgent inquiry into the collapse and the actions of its bosses, including its Swiss chief executive Peter Fankhauser, who has pocketed £8.3million since taking over in 2014. Mr Fankhauser and his two predecessors took home almost £30 million in pay.
There were tears at Thomas Cook's Peterborough headquarters today as 9,000 UK staff lost their jobs and were told they would not be paid this month after the world's oldest travel operator went bust.
Today a £100million taxpayer-funded fleet of 40 or more planes - temporarily making it the UK's fifth biggest airline - is heading to cities and resorts across Europe, 개인회생자인터넷설치 America, north Africa and Asia to bring 160,00 Britons home from more than 50 destinations including 50,000 people in Greece, 30,000 in the Canary Islands and 20,000 in Turkey.
Britain's biggest peacetime repatriation effort, codenamed Operation Matterhorn, will see around 16,000 people flown back to UK airports every day with the backlog taking a fortnight to clear.
Thomas Cook cannot bring its own customers home because it lost its licence and insurance to fly when it went bust this morning - but some of its planes are being used by the Civil Aviation Authority to rescue those stuck abroad.
The Boeing 747 (left), carrying the travel company's famous livery but operated by pilots and staff from US-based Atlas Air, took off from New York's JFK airport at around midnight local time and will land in Manchester at 5pm today (right)
A passenger sobs on the phone after arriving at the closed Thomas Cook check-in desk at Gatwick today
Chaos at Son Sant Joan airport in Palma de Mallorca today as the business collapsed leaving tens of thousands needing a flight
There were similar scenes at Enfidha International airport near Sousse in Tunisia as customers arrived to find Thomas Cook had gone into liquidation
The last Thomas Cook flight into the UK lands at Manchester airport after taking off from Orlando overnight
Passengers disembark a Thomas Cook aircraft at Manchester Airport as the curtain came down on the travel company
Peterborough: There were tears at Thomas Cook's HQ as staff left with their belongings this morning with 9,000 UK workers losing their jobs
Staff were called into the HQ for a meeting this morning where they learned their jobs were gone and they would not be paid this month
As Britain's oldest travel company went bust and a fleet of empty planes is heading out to rescue Thomas Cook passengers, it has emerged:
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