On a pension it is price orientated but not with my boys who are all working. I am happy to go somewhere in the sun and and sit and enjoy the weather with a beer or wine sat on a terrace playing on NSC and just to please everybody else who worries getting my post count up, or jumping in the...
As you say I do not know you and it was not meant as a knock against you in any way shape or form. If it came across like that I must apologise most profusely As regards my boys booking their family holidays through 'reputable companies'; I mean through the likes of Thomson Thomas Cook etc as...
I must have been fortunate then in Cyprus, Algarve and Spain over the last 20 years as I have booked 3 a year in the early days but now down to 2 a year as I cant afford 3 or 1 if booked through a travel agent., but everybody has to earn a living and some people cant be bothered or have the...
You seem to forget that Owners direct is owned by a major company and the sites are guaranteed so I assume that if it fell through they would find an alternative. I must admit I could have come unstuck this year as I booked our flights through skyscanner and it gave Monarch going out and BA...
You wont like me then :lol: as I always book my accommodation usually an apartment through somebody like owners direct/owners abroad anybody bar Airnb and then book my flights direct and my transfer through suntransfers..
You must realize that I am only your average joe with no real knowledge of the industry but just interested in what is happening and how it will affect me in the future when I fly.
That being the case why couldnt the government have given Monarch a 14 day extention or just pay to use their planes etc to bring people home with no outgoing flights permitted.
What would their assets be as I would assume the planes are leased and the HQ office block etc rented. Which if correct would suggest their assets are very minimal.
Did I not hear on the news that they are hopeful that somebody will buy them out so that they can continue trading?
One would expect under the ATOL guarantee they would put them on other airlines flights with ATOL standing the extra cost.