Thomas Cook, the world's oldest travel firm, has collapsed, stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history.
LONDON — Hundreds of thousands of vacationers were in limbo around the globe on Monday after British travel firm, Thomas Cook, collapsed, prompting the largest peacetime repatriation effort in U.K. history.
The U.K.'s Civil Aviation Authority confirmed that Thomas Cook — the world's oldest travel company — had closed its doors, and the regulator and government were mobilizing a fleet of aircraft from around the world to bring home more than 150,000 customers currently abroad.Jaime Reina / AFP - Getty Images
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