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£1 levy was really Cadogan response
just a quick fix to 10% staff cuts
In response to “Consumers warned I would just like to clarify the facts
about Atol costs” on ttglive.com, regarding your article “Cadogan cuts
who really thought the levy would 10% of its staff” (TTG February 6).
stay at £1 when it was first proposed? We are reorganising our team due
It was just a quick-fix dream for to the investment we have made in
agents to think they could save on systems infrastructure. As such,
bonding costs without thinking about we have just finished a period of
the “what if scenario”. voluntary redundancy which a small
Well, last year was a “what if number of staff have accepted.
scenario” and just one large collapse We are now in a consultation
is threatening new levy costs of up period with a few members of staff
to £5. whose jobs may be at risk.
As soon as the CAA got approval
for the levy, it destroyed the insurance Tom Allen
bonding market, leaving hardly any managing director, Cadogan Holidays
proper players in the market.
Do we really think there will not It was no mistake to
be another collapse in 2009? list the ‘chav’ names
I see a £10 levy coming in due In response to Mike Pearse’s comment
time. Let’s face it: levy funds do (TTG February 6), was issuing the list
not work. of names really a mistake?
Nobody with any of those names
Donna Wood has ever booked a holiday with us, so
via email who are we alienating?
Also, the media would never have
Why are UK airports picked up on the story if we hadn’t
so ‘incompetent’ listed the names.
In response to “Airports hit by
heaviest snow for 18 years” on Alistair McLean
ttglive.com, all I can say is, somebody director, Activities Abroad
needs sacking.
If an airport cannot be ready, Welcome debate
having had three days’ warning that on climate change
a substantial amount of snow was In response to “Climate expert slams
coming, then we have some very Heathrow protesters” on ttglive.com,
incompetent people in charge. coal employs lots of hardworking
The same can also be said about people around the world and that is
our wonderful rail and road system. not something that serial protesters
I have never known an airport would protest against.
north of the Arctic Circle in Finland to Air travel, fox hunting (which I am
close through snow, and I personally against), and 4x4 cars are much
have landed very safely in Finland, better “targets”.
Sweden and Canada in heavy Sometimes it would be nice to hear
blizzards. sensible arguments on both sides
instead of all the rhetoric we get
Allen Miller bombarded with.
owner, Small Families,
Sandy, Bedfordshire Nick Cooper, director, Villaplus.com
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