# UK's Thomas Cook shuts doors after 178 years **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2019, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uks-thomas-cook-shuts-doors-after-178-years/840694 "2019-09-23T12:34:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uks-thomas-cook-shuts-doors-after-178-years/840694/21 "2019-09-24T02:05:10Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > The legal circumstances for refunds are different in Germany, and I guess we’re (or the companies, respectively) well insured against losses like that (at least according to online sources and bits and pieces I saw on TV). Though that’d be only a financial consolation, but we want our Rhodos vacation we’ve been looking forward for half a year! i get ya there …glad ya might not lose money tho … ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uks-thomas-cook-shuts-doors-after-178-years/840694/22 "2019-09-24T18:38:40Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > i get ya there …glad ya might not lose money tho … A new development, and good news for our club tour to Rhodos: the German government has granted Condor a € 380 million credit to save them from bankruptcy and their business will go on. (a measure Boris Johnson didn’t consider for Thomas Cook, but granted, Condor’s case is different: though it was a daughter of Thomas Cook, it was one of their last assets that is profitable, so a little help from the government makes sense.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uks-thomas-cook-shuts-doors-after-178-years/840694.md?page=1)