business Essential news, comment and analysis Andy Cohen, the CAA’s head of


Atol and crisis management, was awarded an MBE for services to


aviation in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list last weekend


CAA responds to industry issues with new Atol rules


The authority’s amended Atol Regulations go part way to addressing industry concerns. Ian Taylor reports


Abta will raise several “issues” with the Department for Transport and CAA over the amended Atol Regulations released last Friday.


The regulations come into force


from July alongside new Package Travel Regulations. The CAA has taken industry


concerns into account in finalising the regulations following a consultation with the sector in February and March. Abta


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challenged several proposals at the time and queried others saying they went “beyond what is required by the [European] Package Travel Directive” (Travel Weekly, March 29). In its consultation response, published alongside the amended Atol Regulations, the CAA has acknowledged “industry concern over the time and resources required to comply” with the changes and highlighted three ways in which it has adapted


the requirements “to make compliance more achievable”. First, it has deferred until next


year implementation of some measures not required to comply with the Package Travel Directive; for example, information disclosed to consumers during the sales process and “as they search for holidays”.


Second, the CAA has deferred


a proposal that Atol-holders that advertise a specific flight must secure the flight straight away. Instead, the CAA says it will “work with key stakeholders to develop the precise wording of


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