Thomas Cook collapses: Why and what happens now?


  • World
  • Tuesday, 24 Sep 2019

LONDON (Reuters): Thomas Cook, the world's oldest travel firm, collapsed on Monday (Sept 23), stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history.

What happens now and why did it collapse?

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