Very sad news for all involved. A good name in the British carrier list gone :(

Gosh this is sad. Horribile shock when you airline goes belly up in this way. Damn good Briitish airline Monarch and they did an excellent job throughout.

Huge sympathies to all and here's hoping suitable decent employers are found for all those affected.

Huge sympathy from me to all the crew involved. I've worked for an airline that ran out of money, and believe me it ain't nice.

I hope you all manage to get rehomed with another operator as soon as possible.

Very sorry, due to fly out today on ZB974 BHX-AGP seats 1A/B oh well! Advance train tickets etc. return on ZB971 next Monday and similar with Train tickets. This is large capacity issue, will other airlines increase capacity.....2 x A321 daily BHX-AGP that's a lot to find alternative availability? Feel very sorry for the staff, always very good they don't deserve this, a great airline.

O'Leary wouldn't pay for the 737 rating that many would need.

I think there are enough 320 and 330 positions out there to shelter our friends before that most final of last resorts would have to be considered.

Quite agree Navpi, the CAA website could not be clearer giving details of all flights etc. Just to add my deepest sympathies to all the staff at Monarch, a very sad day indeed as I go back to the Bristol Britannia days, good luck to everybody.

Easy, BA, Wizz (who have a new base at Luton), some charter carriers, EU carriers, etc.

I'm hopeful that everyone will be able to find another job quickly, especially with the crew shortages still in some airlines due to EASA regs.

UK CAA quick to threaten Ryanair but not so quick to help a home based airline.

Best wishes to all the Monarch crew affected by this terrible news, I sincerely hope all will affected be able to find suitable decent alternative employment very quickly.

So sad, and so stressful for all the staff. A once proud Monarch joins the likes of Air Europe, Court Line, Laker and Channel Airways as only memories. I always enjoyed my flights on Monarch and I'm really sad to see them go. Terrorism in Turkey, Tunisia and Egypt and the national self-harming of Brexit creating a low £ have contributed to this sad day. Good luck to all involved.

Looks like the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) owned 10% of Monarch.

They can't be faulted for *lack* of patience with Monarch.

They were right, and even Monarch aren't saying they weren't. This show couldn't have lasted another year; there would have been a disorganised collapse at some random time.

It's sad nobody wanted to buy it. I'm wondering if something awful has been done to its assets (borrowing secured against slots or something like that), or if the industry really is in a *terrible* mess.

This is indeed a sad day on many levels. The best of British luck to all, however the loss of Monarch Airlines affects you.

A telling line from Swaffield's very sad communication.

Compare and contrast with the orderly close down of Air Berlin, where the rules are clearly very different.

However ARD are reporting that 100,000 passengers on Air Berlin long haul flights, booked before 15th August (the date of AB's insolvency) will possibly lose their money,and become unsecured creditors of the airline after the sales of the various bits has gone through.

I feel sure that in the wake of the demise of Monarch, HMG will take a knee-jerk response, and insist that all airlines carrying passenger who buy tickets in UK are bonded in a similar way to that which IT PAX are through the ATOL. Whether that is a) workable, and b) desirable I don't know.

Very sad news, ATB to Monarch crews at this difficult time

Opportune time to look at the system which leaves flight crew pretty much last in line to get what they're owed. Perhaps worth examining the maritime industry where ships may be seized or even sold if crew are left unpaid.

PS. "...Crew shortage due EASA regs" Really? I think what you actually mean is non-investment in training and rock-bottom conditions.

The usual claptrap from BBC, Sky, ITN, et al. The issue for them is NOT lost jobs, perhaps 2100 directly, plus many in former suppliers of Monarch.

No, for the media, especially the taxpayer-funded Beeb, the issue is inconvenienced pax and lost holidays. Those are not tragedies, lost jobs are.

I write from experience, having lost flying jobs twice in the last 20 years. Job loss is a catastrophe for workers and their families, no exceptions.

Thank goodness the CAA put all these repatriation flts together.Thirty planes to be used for over 700 flats over 2 weeks.

Or, to look at it from another angle: There's tens of thousands of passenegrs left in the lurch by Monarch going belly up. That makes up a substantially higher proportion of a media organisation's audience than those directly employed by Monarch. However sad this is for the employees, the media is - quite rightly - focusing on a larger issue, IMO.

Says Mr Swaffield:

No, those are contributory events. The root cause appears to have been an airline without direction 'led' by management too slow or indifferent to react to a changing market.

Great if you live in the UK and are abroad at the moment, for the CAA to be getting you home at no cost. However, if you are a UK ex-pat presently in the UK with a flight back to your home EU country this/next week, they have done nothing to assist, even though they will have aircraft operating outbound legs from the UK empty for repatriation flights. They have no advice to give, if you ring them. Basically if you are an expat British citizen trying to get home, you are on your own. Double standards.