The Monarch airline crisis threatened to scupper a Moresby couple’s chances of a dream honeymoon.

Lovebirds Jordan Weir and Lynsey Aspinall were stunned to find on Monday that their honeymoon to Tenerife – in two weeks’ time – was in jeopardy after the company’s collapse.

The pair, who are set to marry at St James’ Church, Whitehaven, a week on Saturday, are among hundreds of thousands of passengers worldwide caught up in travel chaos after all the firm’s flights were cancelled.

Jordan, 23, said: “When it was announced it was quite a shock. We just felt numb.”

The couple have been avidly making wedding plans since their engagement on Christmas Day 2015, including a honeymoon in Tenerife, a place that they call “a home from home”.

After booking with Monarch in January, the pair have now been scrambling to make alternative honeymoon plans.

Lynsey, 22, who works as a housekeeper at West Cumberland Hospital, has booked another package deal to Tenerife. They are set to fly on the same day as originally planned, from the same airport, but will stay in a different hotel on the resort.

“We’re really pleased. We’re more relieved than anything else,” said Jordan, who works at McDonald’s in Whitehaven.

The couple, of Moresby Parks Road, who have been together for four-and-a-half years, said they were very fortunate as they believe they took the final two places in the deal.

The place is particularly special to them as Tenerife was the first place they holidayed together in October 2015, and they know the place well.

Jordan said: “We had been joking a few weeks ago that we didn’t know why people complained about planning a wedding because everything had gone so smoothly!”

Also caught up in the travel chaos was Bill Robson, from St Bees, and 13 of his work colleagues who had flown with Monarch for a weekend away in Barcelona. He said it was a shock to discover Monarch had “gone bust”.

He said: “We arrived at the airport in Barcelona on Monday as normal, and they put us on a government flight.” The group faced a four-hour delay at the airport in Barcelona before returning to Manchester.

In all, more than 11,800 were flown home to the UK from around the world on Monday on 61 flights, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said.