OMG...I hope none of our members are stranded out there.
No one saw this coming. The company just 'collapsed and folded'.
Reuters - 23 Sept 19
Mallorca, Spain, "Holidaymakers stranded by the collapse of Thomas Cook, the world's oldest travel firm, desperately scrambled for information on Monday on how to get home, as Britain mounted its largest peacetime repatriation effort.
At airports around the world travelers scoured mobile phones or quizzed officials for travel updates as they waited in long queues beneath flight boards showing flights delayed or cancelled.
A grounded airplane with the Thomas Cook livery is seen at Manchester Airport, Manchester, Britain September 23, 2019.
"Nightmare, nightmare, stressed," said British holidaymaker Nick, as he awaited information at Palma airport on the Spanish island of Mallorca.
"Not what we wanted really before going home. But what can you do? Other people have lost their jobs, so we're not as bad (off) as some other people," he said, with two young children - an 18-month-old and 12-year-old - in tow.
He and his family had been due to fly back to the northeastern English city of Newcastle on Sunday evening but now hoped to fly to Manchester on Monday evening and then to travel the 240 km (150 miles) back to their home city by coach.
Scottish tourists hoping to fly back to Glasgow said they now expected to head to the central English city of Birmingham, 400 km (250 miles) away.
"I'm very anxious because I have sore legs so I don't know how... I'm going to get to Glasgow if they take us to Birmingham or somewhere else. So it's going to be very difficult and a long day and I'm very tired," said one woman in a wheelchair.
The British government has pledged to get an estimated 150,000 stranded British holidaymakers home in the biggest such repatriation operation since World War Two, but that is no consolation for many others whose holiday plans lie in ruins".
Read More: Thomas Cook 'collapses' and wrecks travelers' Plans
"Let's go somewhere awesome, because it's the journey that counts". CBJ
Reuters - 23 Sept 19
Mallorca, Spain, "Holidaymakers stranded by the collapse of Thomas Cook, the world's oldest travel firm, desperately scrambled for information on Monday on how to get home, as Britain mounted its largest peacetime repatriation effort.
At airports around the world travelers scoured mobile phones or quizzed officials for travel updates as they waited in long queues beneath flight boards showing flights delayed or cancelled.
A grounded airplane with the Thomas Cook livery is seen at Manchester Airport, Manchester, Britain September 23, 2019.
"Nightmare, nightmare, stressed," said British holidaymaker Nick, as he awaited information at Palma airport on the Spanish island of Mallorca.
"Not what we wanted really before going home. But what can you do? Other people have lost their jobs, so we're not as bad (off) as some other people," he said, with two young children - an 18-month-old and 12-year-old - in tow.
He and his family had been due to fly back to the northeastern English city of Newcastle on Sunday evening but now hoped to fly to Manchester on Monday evening and then to travel the 240 km (150 miles) back to their home city by coach.
Scottish tourists hoping to fly back to Glasgow said they now expected to head to the central English city of Birmingham, 400 km (250 miles) away.
"I'm very anxious because I have sore legs so I don't know how... I'm going to get to Glasgow if they take us to Birmingham or somewhere else. So it's going to be very difficult and a long day and I'm very tired," said one woman in a wheelchair.
The British government has pledged to get an estimated 150,000 stranded British holidaymakers home in the biggest such repatriation operation since World War Two, but that is no consolation for many others whose holiday plans lie in ruins".
Read More: Thomas Cook 'collapses' and wrecks travelers' Plans
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