One of britains best known holiday flight companies, Monarch Airlines, has collapsed, with all flights immediately cancelled, leaving over 100,000 uk customers stranded abroad. The catalonian conundrum when a massive majority of a minority votes for independence, what happens to the driver of spains economic recovery . Welcome to World Business report. Im jamie robertson. In a minute well hear from the boss of microsoft, what hes doing top make his company cool again. But first, Monarch Airlines has been placed into administration and all flights from the uk have been cancelled and will not be rescheduled, accountants kpmg said. The announcement leaves 300,000 future bookings cancelled. The Civil Aviation authority has said it had launched a programme to bring 110,000 Monarch Airlines customers back to the uk. Joe lynam has more. This is a very worrying news for the 100,000 or so monarch Package Holidays passengers. They will be brought home courtesy of the atol protection scheme. What
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