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The collapse of Monarch （TECrash-landing ） 末日君王 Crash-landing 迫降 An ailing airline runs out of runway HORTLY before dawn on October 2nd, startled passengers booked to fly on Monarch Airlines began to get text messages informing them that their flights had been cancelled. It was the first news that Britain’s fifth-biggest airline had ceased trading and was in administration. 10 月2 日，君主航空，一家处境艰难的航空公司的飞机跑出了HORTLY 机 场的跑道，受到惊吓的乘客们随后从这家航空公司得知，他们的航班取消了。随 后的新闻，不列颠第五大航空公司停止交易，并由政府托管。 The government had been warned that Monarch was in trouble only a month before, so a prepared rescue plan quickly took off . Over 30 aircraft were hired to bring back about 110,000 passengers from abroad in what was billed as the country’s biggest peacetime repatriation. A further 860,000 people lost forward bookings, and with them weddings, birthday jollies, and more. 政府在一个月前就警告过君主航空，他们已经深陷泥潭。因此政府马上启动 了已准备好的应急预案，租用了超过30 架飞机把大约 11 万乘客从境外接回国。 这是该国和平时期最大规模的一次境外接本国国民回国的行动。超过86 万人被 迫取消了他们本预订好的婚礼，生日聚会等计划。 It is the third business failure for Monarch’s secretive private-equity owners, Greybull Capital. Greybull bought Monarch in 2014, when the airline was already struggling, from the Swiss-Italian Mantegazza family who had set it up in 1968. Greybull pumped money into Monarch, but the airline had still been expected to lose over £100m next year, said Monarch’s boss, Andrew Swaffield. 君主航空的私募股权所有人，格雷博尔资本第三次投资失败。瑞士-意大 利的曼泰加扎家族于1968 年成立了君主航空公司，格雷博尔于2014 年从曼泰加 扎家族手中收购了这家公司，彼时这家航空公司已经处于风雨飘摇的地步了。君 主航空的负责人安德鲁·索菲尔德表示，即使格雷博尔向君主航空注资，下一年 1 / 3 度，公司还是会损失1 亿英镑。 Monarch had a good business flying to Egypt and Tunisia. But services were stopped to both destinations in 2015 after the bombing of a