For many of us, who don't live near a hub airport, Thomson is the only serious option without a lot of additional costs, wearying travel times or over-nights in hotels.
Yes Jimbo this is precisely my problem. I have an airport 30 minutes from my door, so can be dropped off and collected, and only Thomson flies from there to Corfu, and travelling as a minimum of 200 miles round trip to another with all the added cost of petrol/parking etc is something not really acceptable only in extremis.
I can get flights only from local to Corfu with Thomson and that would cost us Ł730 return in 2013, then add on the taxi cost transfer at 110€ return plus the cost of SS it costs us more to go 'private', it also shows just how little the hotels get. I usually pay Thomson around Ł1000 for the two of us for two weeks in May and September , so if you weigh up flights,and transfers out of the thousand then that does not leave much for the hotelier does it?
I was fully prepared to travel to Stansted next year to go to the Tsaros, but now thankfully it seems that the status quo has returned( even if nothing showing on the website yet until the books come out)