UK: Thomas Cook failure spurs UK to act on airlifting tourists home\

Britain's govt plans to introduce new legislation to make it easier and faster to bring home stranded holidaymakers after the collapse of Thomas Cook led to the country’s biggest ever peacetime repatriation. The UK Civil Aviation Authority was forced to begin flying more than 150,000 tourists home last month after the travel company failed to secure investment to keep flying. Transport minister Grant Shapps said he wanted to change the current system to allow failed airlines to be placed in special administration, so the company’s planes and crew can keep flying meaning passengers can return home faster. The govt was unable to use Thomas Cook aeroplanes and instead had to build what was in effect a temporary airline, using spare capacity from other operators, to bring passengers back. <br/>