on final approach at
London Gatwick Airport in 2002 at
Manchester Airport in 2011 The airline was created on 1 September 1999 as
JMC Air Limited through the merger of
Flying Colours Airlines and
Caledonian Airways. following the purchase of
Thomas Cook & Son by the Carlson Leisure Group. It started operations on 27 March 2000, operating flights from 6 bases in the UK, offering seat-only bookings and bookings via Thomas Cook Tour Operations. In 2001, the airline became the first UK operator of the stretched
Boeing 757-300. In April 2003,
Thomas Cook AG rebranded its airlines under the
Thomas Cook name brand. In June 2007, following the merger between
Thomas Cook AG and
MyTravel Group to form
Thomas Cook Group, on 30 March 2008,
MyTravel Airways was merged with Thomas Cook Airlines. In 2013, Thomas Cook Airlines,
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium,
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia and
Condor merged into a single operating segment of a group named the
Thomas Cook Group Airlines. Thomas Cook Airlines carried around 6.4 million passengers during 2015, a six per cent increase compared with 2014. Airlines around the world took part in ferrying stranded passengers back to the UK, using their aircraft. The repatriation effort covered 165,000 passengers, the largest in UK history, and 65,000 more passengers than the collapse of
Monarch Airlines in 2017. The last flight to depart was MT2643, Registration G-MLJL (
Airbus A330-243) from
Orlando to
Manchester. The airline's AOC was revoked on 7 November 2019. ==Corporate affairs==