WATCH: Repatriation Flight Carrying 300 Passengers Leaves Jamaicas Amid Thomas Cook Shutdown

Jamaica joins a host of countries arranging flights to the United Kingston amid the compulsory liquidation of the Thomas Cook Group. Three hundred passengers left Jamaica on Monday on a repatriation flight from the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay.Thomas Cook, founded in 1841, went into liquidation after last attempt talks to raise funding failed. This has left over 500,000 tourists from the United Kingdom stranded. 

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