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		</div><p><b>Update 7pm:</b> The Irish Travel Agents Association has said that they have received reports of a &#8220;minimal number&#8221; of Irish holiday makes being affected by Thomas Cook collapse.</p>
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<p>The airline does not operate any flights from Ireland, but &#8220;around a dozen Thomas Cook flights have been leaving from Belfast each week over the summer and many Irish people from the north could be affected.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Less than 50 people in Ireland were affected however, 4,500 holidaymakers in the North have been left stranded.</p>
<p>ITAA said that the Commission for Aviation Regulation in Ireland is continuing to monitor the situation.</p>
<p>It is advising any holidaymakers affected by the collapse of Thomas Cook to contact the travel agent they booked their holiday with or the UK Foreign Office.</p>
<p>For those overseas the contact number is +44 (0) 1753 330 330 and for anyone in the UK 0300 303 280.</p>
<p>The UK has begun it&#8217;s largest peacetime repatriation with some 150,000 tourists are being brought home over the next two weeks in a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) flight programme costing £100m (€113m).</p>
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<p>Forty-five aircraft from as far away as Malaysia have been chartered to operate approximately 1,000 flights from 53 airports in 18 countries over the next two weeks.</p>
<p>The first rescue flight touched down at Gatwick from Split, Croatia, shortly before midday today.</p>
<p>Around 15,000 passengers were expected to travel on 61 flights on Monday.</p>
<p>Thousands of holidaymakers are coming to terms with upcoming trips abroad being cancelled following the collapse, with some set to miss holidays of a lifetime, weddings and honeymoons.</p>
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<p><b>The numbers behind the Thomas Cook collapse:</b></p>
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<li>All of the travel company’s flights have been cancelled – that means the 105 aircraft it operates have been grounded.</li>
<li>There are 600,000 Thomas Cook travellers who have been left stuck at 53 destinations in 18 countries.</li>
<li>More than 150,000 of those are British people</li>
<li>The airlift is almost twice the size of the repatriation effort required when Monarch went bust in October 2017.</li>
<li>Around 1,000 repatriation flights will be operated to the UK.</li>
<li>The final cost of the programme is expected to be around £100m (€113m).</li>
<li>Forty charter planes have been brought in from as far afield as Malaysia to assist with the<br />
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<li>Only holidaymakers with return flights booked within the next two weeks, between Monday and Sunday October 6, will qualify for a free flight home, as close as possible to their original return date.</li>
<li>On Monday September 30, one week into the repatriation process, the CAA will launch a service which will seek to process all refunds within 60 days of full information being received. Further details will be given at thomascook.caa.co.uk.</li>
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