They went bust so it's fair to ask if this high volume / low cost traffic would be picked up by anyone else currently in market.
Not in the near term. We'll likely have to be patient on that. Though just to be clear, Thomas Cook was taken down by the insurmountable historic debt obligations of the wider group. The MAN Transatlantic operation was successful and in profit. In the pre-covid era, both Virgin Atlantic and FOSUN expressed interest in stepping in. Those doors have closed now.