第一资讯站Thomas Cook, a 178-year-old British travel company and airline, declared bankruptcy early Monday morning, suspending operations and leaving hundreds of thousands of tourists stranded around the world.
拥有178年历史的英国旅游及航空公司托马斯库克本周一（9月23日）凌晨宣布破产，暂停运营，导致数十万游客滞留在世界各地。
The travel company operates its own airline, with a fleet of nearly 50 medium- and long-range jets, and owns several smaller airlines and subsidiaries, including the German carrier Condor. Thomas Cook still had several flights in the air as of Sunday night but was expected to cease operations once they landed at their destinations.
这家旅游公司旗下的航空公司有近50架中远程喷气式飞机，并拥有数家规模较小的航空公司和子公司，其中包括德国秃鹰航空。截至上周日晚间，托马斯库克仍有几架航班在空中飞行，但预计一旦飞机抵达目的地，就会停飞。
Condor posted a message to its site late Sunday night saying that it was still operating but that it was unclear whether that would change. Condor’s scheduled Monday-morning flights appeared to be operating normally.
秃鹰航空周日晚间在其网站上发布消息称，公司仍在运营，但尚不清楚是否会有变化。秃鹰航空本周一上午的预定航班似乎运行正常。
About 600,000 Thomas Cook customers were traveling at the time of the collapse, of whom 150,000 were British, the company told CNN.
托马斯库克公司告诉美国有线新闻网说，公司倒闭时，大约有60万名客户在旅行途中，其中15万是英国人。
The British Department for Transport and Civil Aviation Authority prepared plans, under the code name “Operation Matterhorn,” to repatriate stranded British passengers. According to the British aviation authority, those rescue flights would take place until October 6, leading to the possibility that travelers could be delayed for up to two weeks.
英国交通部和民航局制定了代号为“马特洪恩行动”的计划，将滞留的英国乘客送回国。英国民航局表示，这些救援航班将持续运行到10月6日，这可能会导致乘客被延误至多两周。
Initial rescue flights seemed poised to begin immediately, with stranded passengers posting on Twitter that they were being delayed only a few hours as they awaited chartered flights.
第一批救援航班似乎很快就起飞了，被困乘客发推文称，他们在等待包机时，只被延误了几个小时。
