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It's an interesting dilemma for airlines and how they deploy capacity: do they stick to "safe" destinations such as Spain and Greece by plugging the gap left vacant by Thomas Cook knowing they will probably be successful, or do they risk a return to a destination which was popular before the travel ban was imposed but is an unknown whether that demand will return in light of this week's developments?
I imagine it will be a softly-softly approach. It might be worth remembering that Jet2 have pretty large in-resort operations so if they do launch SSH it would be from multiple bases. This increases the risk for Jet2, if holidays have to be cancelled at short notice. TUI have an advantage in that they can spread the risk across the various European arms of the company. Its also a bit late to get things on-sale for next summer, aircraft and hotels have already been contracted.
As you say with the opportunity to fill some or most of the TCX markets I think Jet2 will have their hands full in summer 2020.