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The best of your letters, comments and social media this week Refunds: Protection needs overhaul
Story: EC considers ‘fairer sharing’ of burden of travel refunds We need to disentangle financial protection from the “proper performance” issue applying to operators by removing it from the Package Travel Regulations entirely. Any money paid in advance should be fully protected, whether it is paid to a tour operator or a carrier. That would require separate (simple but radical) legislation and mean that the UK department monitoring compliance would be BEIS and not Transport (DfT). It would also help to address the conflicts of interest which have meant that nobody is actually enforcing current legislation (except the CMA in its rather dilatory way) because to do so would give the DfT too many other problems with failing carriers. Paul Sawbridge
Outlook: Savings will drive upturn
Story: Jet2holidays boss predicts 2022 booking levels will surpass 2019 Yes, unemployment is higher than before the pandemic, but savings are at an all-time high, so sales of non-essential goods, including holidays, are likely to go through the roof once we are back to normality. Clareuk
kerry_l6 @kerrylakey7 Savannah Travel I see @RishiSunak is busy sharing and liking tweets where he is praised, yet completely ignoring those who have been ignored for a year now asking/pleading for support. #Budget2021 #disappointed
Go Travel (Barnstaple) gotrav123 We are women. What’s your superpower?
#internationalwomensday Virgin Voyages: Ship name is apt Budget: Still no help
Story: Virgin Voyages’ third ship to be called Resilient Lady Andrew McAlpine: The name is so fitting for the current times and International Women’s Day. Janet Walker: Now I need to persuade my hubby we have to do the 14-night back-to-back!
Story: Furlough scheme to be extended to end of September Rob Haynes: No help at all for owners of small, one-man/woman businesses. We still get to live on fresh air . . .
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Deben Travel @DebenTravel Owning a travel business, I fully appreciate how tough things are at the moment. But, tour operators and airlines, if a holiday is cancelled, please just refund our customers and stop putting obstacles in the way.
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