BREAKING Monarch Airlines ceases operations with immediate effect – 110,000 people stranded overseas

The UK’s biggest peacetime repatriation is under way after the collapse of Monarch Airlines, with 110,000 customers to be brought back home on specially chartered planes. The accountants KPMG announced in the early hours of Monday that Monarch, Britain’s longest-surviving airline brand, had been placed into administration and that all further flights from the UK had…

BREAKING Major disruption after computer check-in systems failed worldwide

  Airline customers have been hit with major disruption after computer check-in systems failed across the globe. Frustrated passengers reported problems at London Gatwick, Heathrow, Charles de Gaulle in Paris, Reagan Airport in Washington DC, Singapore, Zurich, Melbourne and Johannesburg… on Thursday morning after firms using Amadeus Altea software were hit with issues. The software is used…

NEWS Ryanair cancels another 18,000 flights, affecting 400,000 customers

Budget airline Ryanair cancelled another 18,000 flights on Wednesday, deepening its woes over its mismanagement of pilots’ holiday schedules. The Irish carrier, Europe’s biggest by passengers carried, says 34 routes will be suspended from November to March 2018, affecting some 400,000 customers who have already booked flights. Under the airline’s slower growth plan, some 18,000…