Around 110,000 passengers were left stranded overseas when the embattled airline failed on October 2 last year, only 20% of whom had Atol protection.
The Department for Transport (DfT) and the CAA subsequently launched the largest peacetime repatriation programme in British history.
However, the DfT came under fire from the travel industry when it tried to reclaim costs from various “travel providers”, predominantly tour operators, as well as credit and debit card providers.
