Originally Posted by
inOban
What of the future?
1. There is a cohort of Airbus-trained crew looking for new employers.
2. There are a number of Airbus a/c looking for new owners or operators.
3. There are well over a million people who want to go on holiday to the destinations that were served by TC.
4 Their competitors in the UK market fly Boeing and there aren't spare Boeings on the market at least until the Max is allowed to fly.
To me the only obvious provider of replacement holidays is the relaunched easyJet holidays, but only of course for the short haul market, in which (with the rise of Jet2) they were an increasingly minor player. And that would maintain competition in this market.
But I can't see who is going to offer any compensation to TUI in the longhaul business.
You would assume someone will fill the void as there is a lot of capacity lost by this ahead of Summer 2020, be it a relaunch from assets of Thomas Cook by a willing bidder? EasyJet fancying a go at the success Jet2 have had, maybe Jet2 expanding south finally and looking at LGW.
A new airline possibly linked to another travel company or maybe something unexpected like Virgin having a proper look at European holidays adding in with their expansion plans and domestic entry.
Hopefully whatever happens a need to fill the gap left by this will see plenty of opportunities for the staff of TCX to find swift employment and the often forgotten hoteliers in resorts who have also lost their main supplier of holidaymakers can recover that loss too.