Thomas Cook's collapse strands 600,000 travelers

Posted On: Sep. 24, 2019 6:38 AM CST

British passengers board an Airbus A380 airliner being used for transporting Thomas Cook customers at Dalaman Airport, Turkey, after Thomas Cook collapsed, stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history./ REUTERS

As many as 600,000 vacationers have been left stranded across the world following the collapse of U.K.-based travel group Thomas Cook Group PLC, The New York Times reports. Thomas Cook has cancelled all its bookings, including the flights that it operates directly.