By George Stephens • Published: 21 Sep 2019 • 14:21
As potential investors walk away Thomas Cook call upon the Government for a bail out loan.
It’s been reported the hedge fund CQS has walked away from talks to provide urgent liquidity to the ailing travel company, a series of possible scenarios that were on the table in recent days have been ditched after it became clear that the company could become insolvent within hours.
Thomas Cook is of course, still operating at present but their predicament underlines the anxiety many customers are feeling.
Mr Rodgers called the customer service helpline and asked if they could delay paying the balance until they know that the tour operator is not going to fall into administration. But they were told the deadline remains, or they would lose their £800 deposit.
“We were going to pay on debit card, but now I think we’ll put it on the credit card if we go forward,” Ian said.
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