thomas cook staff are also perplexed by the fact that the company's german airline, condor, was kept afloat and is still operating today. the government was forced to defend its decision not to save thomas cook's ukst put the money in, the answer is, all you would have to do is open their books and realise, if you have £1.7 billion of debt, if you lost £1.5 billion in six months alone, if you issued another profit warning, this is entirely different to the condor situation which was a fundamentally profitable airline. but a positive turnaround for some staff, who went back to work. hays travel announced it was saving around 500 thomas cook stores. i'm sat with all of my team now, they would all be happy to come back to the branch. nicola and her colleagues, who thought they had lost theirjobs, were with the bbc‘s colletta smith when they got a call to say that they were now not unemployed. they are opening and we just have to contact them. clapping it wasjust incredible, for me one of the most amazing moments as a journalist to be in the room at that moment when someone's life is turned around in seconds. they thought they would be made redundant. they were already looking for other jobs, looking