Flights Cancelled As Monarch Ceases Trading

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41464934

100,000 passengers could be stranded abroad :::

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/01/monarch-preparing-lose-license-quadruples-air-fairs-deter-new/

Just when you thought flying couldn't get any worse.........

[Gromit]

I doubt the planes will end up rotting in the desert. Monarch probably don't even own them, they will be leased. And they are new airbuses, not old planes, so will be easy to re-lease or resale.

[Bazile]

Not all the planes stored there are for scrapping

//Category 3000 planes are kept in near ready-to-fly condition, awaiting a more-than-likely new deployment.//

[Gromit]

Monarch places were leased

https://www.airleasecorp.com/press/air-lease-corporation-announces-the-placement-of-two-new-airbus-a321-200s-with-monarch-airlines