Another 16,500 Thomas Cook passengers will be rescued on 70 flights today in the UK's biggest peacetime repatriation ever.
It will take up to two weeks to bring all 150,000 holidaymakers back home from destinations such as the Caribbean, Turkey and the US.
With Operation Matterhorn now in its third day, about 120,000 Britons are still stranded abroad after the world's oldest travel company went bust in the early hours of Monday morning.
Things turned tragic as a 67-year-old woman - believed to be among the tourists affected by the Thomas Cook chaos - in Spain.
It is claimed that Thomas Cook branches were so underfunded that staff were forced to buy their own toilet paper as the firm's bosses earned millions, it is claimed.
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Meanwhile, the rescue operation continues with another 16,500 passengers due to be brought home on Wednesday.
A spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority said: "On day two of our repatriation programme for Thomas Cook customers we brought back more than 14,000 passengers on 70 flights.
"We will be bringing back another 16,500 today."
Stranded Britons have told how they have been locked out of their hotels and ordered to pay extra - more than £2,000 in some cases - to avoid being kicked out of their rooms.
They have likened it to being "held hostage" or being "held to ransom" by greedy hoteliers.
In Spain, a 67-year-old British woman, believed to be a Thomas Cook customer, collapsed and died at Reus airport, near Tarragona, on Tuesday.
A German nurse who was on holiday and paramedics were unable to revive her.
Local reports said the woman was waiting to be flown home on a rescue flight.
Thomas Cook executives, directors and auditors have been warned they might be hauled into Westminster to explain themselves to MPs amid public anger over the collapse.
A security guard was posted outside the £2million Surrey mansion rented by Swiss millionaire Peter Fankhauser, the chief executed of failed Thomas Cook, on Tuesday night as the fallout continued.
The company, which ran hotels, resorts and airlines for 19million people a year, had about 600,000 people abroad when it collapsed earlier this week.
