Originally Posted by
anotherthing
Jet2 are trying to cash in. Tried to book flights back from Lanzarote for next Jan as we were booked with TCX. Got all the details in and told price was circa £4700 (8 people). Went to the pay now page and they stated price had risen to £7600 due to demand. I can see many people will panic and just pay it. Fortunately TUI offered much fairer price. Condolences to all passengers and staff. Sad day.
As for Government bail outs - where would you stop? Would you expect them to bail out every business that fails? What about Jamie's food business? Or HofF or the numerous other businesses that are struggling and are on the brink?
Shortsightedness is something hard to overcome.
However if you can avoid paying £600 million pounds for repatriation, minimize tax revenue loss and avoid millions of benefit payouts by lending a £150 million pounds, then that makes more sense then just simply stick to capitalistic principles. Don’t forget, private investors and banks had already a billion pounds in place....