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CAA’s ‘Monarch’ outlay splits opinion
Story: Cost of CAA’s Monarch ‘shadow airline’ revealed This is public money, which must be fully and openly accounted for. [£25.6 million] seems an astonishing amount to spend on a contingency; surely it would have been cheaper to accommodate people locally, until seats were available, if necessary? OBSERVER
The CAA spent a lot of money to fly planes over from America to ‘shadow’ Monarch’s aircraft. If Monarch had collapsed, could not the CAA have said to them ‘give us one last flight to get your customers home; here’s some cash to do it’? I suspect the sum required to do this would have been less than £26.5 million. JOE
Imagine if the worst had happened and there was no contingency plan in place. It’s not worth thinking about. Thank god we have an ultra-efficient CAA. PETER
BA must become British again to avert Brexit woe
Story: IAG boss Walsh calls for reform of ‘arcane’ EU rules on airline ownership BA is part of the Spanish firm IAG, which itself is 20% owned by Qatar. In my opinion, the only way BA can protect itself for all Brexit scenarios is to be- come British again. Otherwise, in the event of an ‘aviation hard Brexit’, any country could re- fuse a UK designation of BA on the correct legal grounds that it is not substantially owned by British shareholders.
JIM M
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Story: Agent Achievement Awards raise £6,700 for families of Manchester attack victims Very moving speech and great that so much was raised. Well done, Graeme [Brett], Jill [Waite] and Ken [Garrity], plus, of course, Travel Weekly.
PAUL RICHES sales director, Bedswithease
QUOTE OF THE
WEEK Do solicitors explain that evidence is key?
Story: ‘Significant’ win for Cook against ‘implausible’ sickness claim The last thing genuine claimants want is people with no proper evidence making claims, let alone false claims. Although obtaining evidence can be a problem for claimants, in this case the facts found do seem clearly against the claimants. Did the claimants’ solicitors explain to the claimants that they didn’t have proper evidence?
STEPHANIE TROTTER president and director, CO-Gas Safety
TWEETS THIS WEEK
Triangle Travel @TriangleTravel Loving the award! Independent Travel Agency of the Year @TriangleTravel at #TWAAAs. Feeling proud!
Russell Cox @RussJCox Congratulations @RowlandAlistair on Outstanding Achievement Award! at #TWAAAs
Westoe Travel @westoetravel Very honoured to be asked to pay tribute to Chloe Rutherford and Liam Curry at the travel industry’s biggest agent event the #TWAAAs
“Call me cynical, but knowing how fickle politicians can be and how they have treated the travel industry
over the years, I’m wary of anything they say.”
JIMMY MARTIN, owner, Jimmy Martin Travel, Edinburgh › Comment, page 38
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