Planning for these rescue flights began on Thursday and Friday with the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle for repatriating everyone being placed over the last few days and will continue to do so in the coming days for flights over the next two weeks. It’s no coincidence that the very informative monarch.caa.co.uk website has taken sometime to be put together and is not just a last minute statement on a web page. It, like the airlift has been built up over the last few days. Only after 21:00 last night were plans allowed to be broadcast to wider airline staff involved in these as CAA has confidentiality clauses in place in case things could be salvaged at the last minute like this time last year. Sadly there was no last minute rescue and here we are today hoping that staff find new jobs quickly and as many customers are able to salvage their holidays as possible.