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A little optimism can go a long way these days – particularly for hard-hit companies. This was the case for Tui, whose shares leapt after boss Fritz Joussen told a German newspaper that he expects ‘a largely normal summer’ for the company this year. His comments, made over the weekend, were reassuring for investors in … Read more
Tui swings to £2.7bn annual loss and warns holiday bookings won’t return to pre-crisis levels until 2022 Tui made a mammoth loss of €3.1bn (£2.7bn) in the year to the end of September Revenues fell 58% to €7.9bn (£7.2bn) as Covid disrupted and halted travel Tui looking to cut costs by another €100m, but no … Read more
Last year, I booked a holiday to Cuba with my wife and our best friends via Tui. We were due to travel on 15 November but because of the latest government lockdown, it was cancelled. On 2 November, I received an email stating we could re-book and have an up to 40 per cent uplift … Read more
Brits flying home for Christmas had a fright when a wheel fell off a holiday jet while it was landing and then rolled past the cockpit as the two pilots watched in horror, a report has revealed. The TUI airliner had just touched down at Manchester airport after an otherwise ‘uneventful’ Christmas Eve flight from Agadir … Read more
NHS nurse, 35, is stranded in Turkey and banned from Tui flight home after her teenage daughter took off her face mask to eat a sandwich on the plane Mother-of-three Charlotte Snook was initially banned from flight home by Tui Ban came after her daughter, 14, took off her mask mid flight to eat a … Read more
Tui cuts winter holiday choice after summer bookings nosedive over 80% and as a second wave of Covid-19 hits Europe Tui cuts winter packages as it sees decline in booking volumes and trend shift The travel company has switched focus and on alternative low risk destinations Back in May, the company axed 8,000 jobs and … Read more
One of the UK’s biggest package holiday operators has agreed to pay out all refunds to customers who saw their trips cancelled due to coronavirus. Tui vowed to make the payments by the end of the month – after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) revealed it had received thousands of complaints from passengers claiming … Read more
A couple say their travel company has threatened them with bailiffs unless they pay for a holiday they no longer feel safe going on. Months before the pandemic hit, in January, Leah Maybourne and Ben Johnson from Maidstone, Kent, had booked a week in Turkey through TUI. They were due to fly to Belek in … Read more
Tour operator Tui will no longer offer holidays to the resort of Laganas on Zante as ministers today hold an emergency meeting with Welsh and Scottish officials about quarantining travellers from Greece and Portugal. Welsh health minister Vaughan Gething said he would be pressing the UK Government to consider the potential risk in Greece following six … Read more
A furious passenger who was on board a TUI flight from Zante that has had sixteen coronavirus cases has claimed the crew ‘didn’t care’ about social-distancing rules. Stephanie Whitfield, who was on TUI flight 6215 to Cardiff from the Greek holiday resort, claimed the ‘inept crew couldn’t care less’ after passengers took off their masks … Read more