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the 2019 collapse of the Thomas Cook travel agency triggered UK s largest peacetime repatriation. Called Operation Matterhorn, over 140,000 British tourists were recovered with 150 aircraft in 746 flights. During that time, the UK government briefly was UK s 5th largest airline

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Fun Fact: the 2019 collapse of the Thomas Cook travel agency triggered UK’s largest peacetime repatriation. Called Operation Matterhorn, over 140,000 British tourists were recovered with 150 aircraft in 746 flights. During that time, the UK government briefly was UK’s 5th largest airline

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