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D@G:
I anticipate with what’s happening this year with the package deals, a lot more people are being forced to book independent and once they realise how easy and convenient it is, they will continue to do so in future years.

A long term bonus for our friends in the village.

Tredegar Boy:

--- Quote from: Karen on July 23, 2021, 03:32:30 AM ---Thank you BAJ..just seen another TUI cancellation..dreadful..will have to look more deep!y into independent booking..

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From Bristol today TUI have cancelled flights to Tenerife, Corfu, Zante and Rhodes but have departed for Mahon, Ibiza and Palma. Anybody have any idea what the rationale is?

Karen:

--- Quote from: Tredegar Boy on July 23, 2021, 02:04:05 PM ---From Bristol today TUI have cancelled flights to Tenerife, Corfu, Zante and Rhodes but have departed for Mahon, Ibiza and Palma. Anybody have any idea what the rationale is?

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None of it makes any sense, I guess it depends how full/empty the flights are..

Jimbo:
As Lesley said earlier, unless the flight is at 75% capacity they are losing money. So it makes sense to aggregate two flights into one, if feasible. For example, TUI usually have two flights a week from Donny - Monday and Friday. The Friday flight leaves at 7am and the Monday at 2:40pm. Landing fees are probably lower for the Monday flight, so they may decide, if bookings are low, to cancel Friday and offer Monday. Monday is less pleasant for us - so if they cancel our Friday flight we'll have to choose between Monday and postponement.

They have been put in a very difficult position by the UK government's late decisions. People will make last-minute decisions based on the latest travel advice, and they still have to crew a plane fully staffed even if it has only a handful of passengers, because the number of cabin crew depends upon the number of seats, not the number of passengers. The minimum for a 737 is three, but a normal TUI crew appears to be four FAs.

As fas as Spain v Greece goes - Spain has very high infection levels, though not as high as the UK, and substantially greater than Greece. So I think that's a logistics decision, not a pandemic decision. Average flight time to Spain is about 2.5 hours - to Greece is at least three and probably four hours. That's a lot more fuel.

Tredegar Boy:
I don't do social media but is there anything on there about how much notice people are getting about their cancellation?

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