Please help the Independent UK Travel Agents

Life__Goes__On

Lucky97 said:

Thank you life goes on. 

I wanted to get the travel industries issues out there. We seem to hear a lot about all kinds of business sectors. We hear about the airlines and your operators but not the travel agents. I wanted to get our plight heard but it looks like you are right, this isn’t the place. It’s the first time I have posted and probably won’t again 🤷🏼‍♀️ 

I know it’s not frontline but most of us have been working day in day out since March, reading the various airlines Covid-19 policies and sorting out clients refunds. Like a lot of  industries it’s been a tough time.  

The Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements 2018 will be a killer for some TA, and in the short term things will only get worse.  Some TA will have booked flight (Ryanair) & hotel (non-refundable) for theirs customers. If sold as a single contract,  while the FCO advice remains, they will have to refund their customers,  but if Ryanair fly,  and the hotel is open,, they will get nothing back. 

Lucky97

Life__Goes__On said:

Lucky97 said:

Thank you life goes on. 

I wanted to get the travel industries issues out there. We seem to hear a lot about all kinds of business sectors. We hear about the airlines and your operators but not the travel agents. I wanted to get our plight heard but it looks like you are right, this isn’t the place. It’s the first time I have posted and probably won’t again 🤷🏼‍♀️ 

I know it’s not frontline but most of us have been working day in day out since March, reading the various airlines Covid-19 policies and sorting out clients refunds. Like a lot of  industries it’s been a tough time.  

The Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements 2018 will be a killer for some TA, and in the short term things will only get worse.  Some TA will have booked flight (Ryanair) & hotel (non-refundable) for theirs customers. If sold as a single contract,  while the FCO advice remains, they will have to refund their customers,  but if Ryanair fly,  and the hotel is open,, they will get nothing back. 

Yes absolutely. It’s all very unfair for all concerned.