Travel is affordable during term time. It's prohibitively expensive during school holidays. The airlines and travel companies are robbing many children of the opportunity to travel. Rather than punish parents for wanting to have those precious memories with their children, the government should stop the travel company cartels from shameless profiteering. It's just really shit.
this is the most ridiculous post! Nobody is robbing anybody of anything! Not being able to afford an unnecessary luxury is not robbery! I can't afford a car, is the car industry "robbing" me of the opportunity to drive 😂
The price does not go up in school holidays, that is the price of travel. What happens is the price goes down off peak, to get more custom when if would otherwise be less.
Holiday companies are not "shamelessly profiteering,"- they are commercial companies providing a luxury service, which you can't afford.
If parents want "precious memories" of taking children away, go camping, go away in the uk, go on cheap holidays -
of course, there are people on this thread that actually have no interest in providing an enriching experience for their children, because they would take them on cheap camping holidays if they did. They want a luxury for themselves, and are dressing it up as "won't somebody think of the children".
Foreign holidays are a luxury, not an entitlement. Nor are they in any way "essential for mental health" 😂That is a ridiculous arguement - I could just as well argue that needing a million pounds in the bank is "essential for my mental health" - so I am entitled to it!
Most people manage perfectly well without feeling entitled to these immense luxuries. Some people have the funding to enjoy immense luxuries! ( like the poster on here paying £1600 for a holiday for two in term time- complaining about how badly off they are while spending undreamt about amounts on a luxury)
Lovely if you can afford them, but most people can't.