The collapse of the tour operator left British authorities with a major task of repatriating more than 150,000 of its citizens. In response, the Civil Aviation Authority launched the UK’s largest repatriation operation back to Britain in peacetime, known as “Operation Matterhorn”. The scale and urgency of the mission is best reflected considering that passengers left stranded in the Spanish Balearic Island of Mallorca are flown back to Manchester, UK, on an Airbus A380 leased from Malaysia Airlines.