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WINKIE:
Sad day for all who have booked, worked or are on holiday with the above. Another travel company sadly bites the dust. Spent many holidays with them, cant believe this mornings news  :'( :'( :'(. Hope all folks currently in the village, who travelled with them, are able to get home safely soon.

diane13:
Really sad for everyone affected  :-[

maggiesaes:
We have one here in Little Prince but he was booked with Tui who moved him to a different flight and airport and a Thomas Cook plane.
He is worried but he actually paid Tui.

Jimbo:
Tell him his contract is with TUI. They often use planes leased from other airlines or book seats. They used to use Easyjet from Leeds, for example. Thomas Cook never had anybody at Little Prince.

Jimbo:
Maybe I should add that I did a consumer phone-in program for years when I was BBC Producer and Presenter, and that's a typical issue. In UK law your contract is with the seller, not the brand owner, manufacturer or sub-contractor.

TUI has 150 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, all of which are grounded. A spokesperson said, in March:


--- Quote --- “... Tui has taken precautions along with other airlines, covering the time until mid-July, in order to be prepared for the Easter, Whitsun and start of the summer holiday season and to secure holidays for its customers and their families.”
--- End quote ---

Of course, July came and went and the planes are still not flying, so TUI, whose shares are severely down in value, has a major shortage of aeroplanes. It doesn't matter is they rent planes from Sunwings or Timbuktu Air, as far as the purchaser of a TUI hoilday is concerned, they are TUI planes. This summer our TUI flight from Doncaster was a Sunwings plane, with Canadian aircrew and TUI cabin crew. On the way back it was the same plane, but the (exuberant) cabin crew were flown by TUI from Ireland to service our flight. Aviation is a crazy world!
 

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