Nemrytter: Wrong! There are not tens of thousands of passengers left in the lurch. The CAA is ensuring they all come home and the bloody BBC is getting annoying with Justin Webb's inept reporting/analysing. All those who have already travelled outbound with Monarch will be returned at no cost and little inconvenience. Or has the CAA chartered a flock of Qatar planes, along with various others just to decorate the sky?
I do wonder though why the CAA can't stop Monarch from selling more tickets but keep flying until all their customers have been repatriated? Protecting the banks, perhaps?
There was a report on the radio to the effect the CAA announcement was timed for when all Monarch's aircraft were back on the ground in the UK so the banks could seize them. And that's another of my pet gripes; property before people!