Monarch Airlines: Insolvency

(asked on 19th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) whether they are able to oblige Greybull to contribute towards the cost of repatriating passengers stranded outside the UK due to the failure of Monarch Airlines; (2) whether Greybull ranks as a senior creditor of Monarch in receivership; and (3) how many Monarch passengers were stranded in the UK and not repatriated with government assistance.


Answered by
Baroness Sugg Portrait
Baroness Sugg
This question was answered on 31st October 2017

There is no formal legal mechanism we can use to oblige Greybull to contribute towards the cost of repatriating passengers. Whether Greybull ranks as a senior creditor of Monarch in receivership is a question for the administrators. The role for Government was to get passengers back to the UK who would otherwise have been stranded due to insufficient alternative capacity in the aviation market at the time of Monarch’s collapse.

The CAA made an assessment that there was sufficient capacity in the market for passengers who were in the UK at the time of the collapse to make an alternative flight booking if they wished to do so.

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