2 Oct, 2017 @ 17:11
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British airline Monarch pushed flight sale to Spain THREE days before going bust

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BRITISH airline Monarch pushed a flight sale just THREE days before it went bust.

The airline, which ceased all activities this morning, sent out a text message encouraging people to book flights to Spain and Portugal on Friday night.

The message read: “Hooray for payday! Find the feeling with 1000s of seats at £30 to Spain and Portugal”.

Others claim they were also sent emails advertising a sale last week.

It comes after the UK’s fifth biggest airline engaged in survival talks to prevent its collapse over the weekend.

Its collapse is the largest ever in the UK and has left 111,000 Brits stranded overseas.

The Civil Aviation Authority has charged more than 30 new flights to help those stuck abroad.

The vast majority with booked flights will not be able to get their money back from the airline, and must instead apply for a refund from their bank or insurer.

The airline, whose headquarters are at London Luton Airport, was founded in 1968.

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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