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A second British vacation company has gone bust, the country's aviation regulator said Sunday, the same week the U.K.'s No. 3 tour operator collapsed.

XL Leisure Group PLC went into liquidation Friday, leaving around 50,000 of its customers stranded abroad, and the Civil Aviation Authority said it had so far managed to arrange flights home for a little less than half of them.

A second tour operator, K & S Travel, ceased trading Saturday, the authority said, affecting around 150 people in the Turkish coastal town of Bodrum.

iht.com

Labels: UK, xl leisure

Airlines and travel companies are scrambling to bring British holidaymakers back home after the collapse of the UK's third largest tour operator.

Phil Wyatt, chief executive of XL Leisure Group, said he was "devastated" by the collapse of his company, which was forced to call in the administrators in the early hours of the morning after the failure of last minute talks with financial backers Icelandic investment group Straumur.

guardian.co.uk

Labels: xl leisure

Rescuers have evacuated dozens of people from the Channel Tunnel which links England and France after a fire on a freight shuttle injured 14 people and forced the closure of the key transport link, officials say.

theage.com.au

Labels: channel-tunnel, fire, France, UK