TUI have cancelled all flights to Spain!

[Overseasmom100]

Just read this am shocked!!

Well when we booked, we did so because the advice was that it was safe to do so

@Legoandloldolls

I should have flown to Majorca last week with TUI but is was cancelled thank God. We booked in January. Back before global pandemics wasnt a big factor in life risk. Remember? The time before covid?

Im certain TUI will fold. I rebooked a local ish UK holiday ( not Cornwall btw, how is the tourist trade fairing there?).

Big SE/SW coastal town. It's dead here. Eerry, quite, hardly anyone in our resort base camp. Very few in the local high streets. On the beach it's a good 6metres apart.

Tourist towns in the UK need the cash but it seems people are staying home even here. Lots more companies will go bust yet.

I dont think i will book a holiday next year either. It's too risky. I could be flying back into lockdown right now. Do able but i am shocked at the speed and how it had no warning.

Last minute cheap UK holidays in the rain for the foreseeable future i guess.

Legoandloldolls I live in Cornwall and it is absolutely heaving. I work in hospitality and we rely heavily on tourists, but many of them are behaving like the pandemic is over. Zero social distancing, and some local shopkeepers have been sworn at when they asked customers to adhere to their guidelines. Apparently they don't have to have to because it's safe down here. Yeah well it was.

If there isn't another spike I'll be amazed. Fine if people feel the need to go on holiday, but they have to behave differently. Their current behaviour is beyond selfish.

You’d hope they’d look at the canaries and Balearics separately as they’re islands!

The uk government allowed non essential trips to Spain so people there even "on a jolly" have done nothing wrong! Transport secretary Grant Shapps is on holiday in Spain. A tenner says he'll be needing to test his eyes or something when he gets back

(I'm wondering whether Gibraltar is an exception as huge number of people live in one and work in the other. )

Not everyone going to Spain is on a jolly. We were planning to see elderly relatives we haven’t seen since Christmas.

Jesus! I have not seen my elderly relatives abroad either and don’t plan to until there is a vaccine or a better treatment for Covid. I love them enough not to want to risk taking the virus to them no matter how much I miss them.

Exactly, people have booked when they were told by government that it was ok to do so.
Anyone who's now away, has gone knowing there are risks, but it'll be a bloody surprise to know about the quarantine.
Nothing about any of this is normal, nothing is set in stone.

I guess people who have gone in the last couple of weeks are just trying to have some semblance of life balance.
I'll stop looking on the tui app now.

Drats.

But everyone booking a holiday in the last few weeks must have known something like this was a possibility. The virus has not gone away

I have to say I’m failing to see how it’s entitled to trust the government risk assessment that it was safe to travel.

And actually I’m not moaning about this happening, we knew it was a risk. But taking that risk was not Entitled and absurd in itself.

I live in a very popular tourist area in South Devon, in one of our small towns it's so narrow you cannot social distance.
We've had an influx of tourists and I'm expecting our local numbers of infections are going to rise.

Some aren't behaving responsibly here, there are a minority who are just lording it about like it's their right to do what they like.

Sad people.

People trust the British government's advice? Why? They have shown an utter disregard for the health of the British people. Thousands have needlessly died.

@SheWranglesRugRats

Well when we booked, we did so because the advice was that it was safe to do so

What was safe? What advice are you talking about?

I assume the FCO always says its advice is subject to change and whilst in the middle of a pandemic I would have thought there is a much higher risk of that happening.

School risk assessments currently say they are safe to open in September but if there is a spike in cases in the local area then it is likely the schools will ‘close’ but with remote learning.

@SheWranglesRugRats

I have to say I’m failing to see how it’s entitled to trust the government risk assessment that it was safe to travel.

And did that “advice” include mixing with elderly relatives in a different country?

Well when we booked, we did so because the advice was that it was safe to do so

Except it’s stated on government site that travel is subject to sudden change. It is a risk atm

All the people who are calling people who want to travel ‘selfish’ - you realise if / when the travel industry collapses that’ll be thousands more unemployed?
People who want thousands unemployed so they can be smug sitting in their shitty Haven caravan make me laugh 😂

Have none of those people who went/should be going to Spain been monitoring the situation there? Surely it couldn't have been that much of a surprise?
It was obvious around 10 days ago that cases were on the rise, in the 2000+ per day by Thurs/Fri this week, I'm surprised it took the UK so long to reinstate quarantine, I fully expected it the early part of the week.

Well the elderly relatives ARE allowed to mix if they want to, Spain allows for groups up to 10 I think in bars etc, and iirc you can now go into other people's homes. This may of course change as areas go back into various phases of lockdown.

Rather than mandate a further two weeks off work when you'd given the green light for people to go, the govt could do what Luxembourg is doing and pass out testing vouchers on arrival at the airport. Show your negative test card on your return to work.

People who had their flights cancelled are the lucky ones, at least they will get a refund.

@Ridiculousradish Same in the tourist town I live in. We've had some of the lowest case numbers in the UK. Tourists are the lifeblood of the town but they're behaving dreadfully. No social distancing, no wearing masks. My DP works in retail now and he's been sworn at, had his shirt grabbed, all sorts. Understand people are stressed but it's awful behaviour.

Im certain TUI will fold

I would not be so sure. The parent company is German and operates across Europe under various brands. The UK operation may well be scaled down post Brexit anyway.

Grant Schapps the TRANSPORT SECRETARY is over there

He's going to feel like a right idiot

I don't blame anyone who booked last minute for being annoyed - the Govt begged people to do it, saying the aviation and tourist industries needed the boost, it was safe to fly, etc etc. But it was far too soon to make that call when we're in the middle of the global pandemic and many countries in the Americas are still recording tens of thousands of new infections every day. I feel most sorry for anyone whose travelled to the islands, because if they cancel they won't get a refund or insurance claim, because the FO is saying it's okay to travel there still. The Govt has ballsed it up AGAIN.

@Longwhiskers14

I don't blame anyone who booked last minute for being annoyed - the Govt begged people to do it, saying the aviation and tourist industries needed the boost, it was safe to fly, etc etc. But it was far too soon to make that call when we're in the middle of the global pandemic and many countries in the Americas are still recording tens of thousands of new infections every day. I feel most sorry for anyone whose travelled to the islands, because if they cancel they won't get a refund or insurance claim, because the FO is saying it's okay to travel there still. The Govt has ballsed it up AGAIN.

I think the govt has ballsed it up again DELIBERATELY.

Because the FCO is saying it's OK to travel to the Canaries and the Balearics, the travel companies / insurance won't have to compensate travellers who have holidays booked to those locations. Let the poor bloody individuals bear the cost, rather than the businesses. Save the economy. Etc etc.

Ah my poor friends - they live in Madrid with two small kids and few back to the uk last week to escape the heat a bit and try and see family. He works out there, I wonder if they will be able to get home?

That was quite a quick change without much warning. Hmmm it will make more people cautious about traveling I think.