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Old 21st Sep 2019, 20:35
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Originally Posted by KelvinD
I listened to the head of TSSA on the radio this morning. He very sensibly pointed out that the most important thing the government should remember while dithering is that, should TC go down, that will effectively leave a monopoly situation re package holiday and that monopoly will be with TUI. I know Jet2 could be considered but I think he was right, TUI would trump the lot.
As it stood for the 12 months to September 2019:
Tui UK has an Atol for 5,678,163 protected seats
Jet2holidays for 3,810,320 seats
Thomas Cook is the third largest at 2,471,042

I wouldn't call that a monopoly.
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