Originally Posted by
davidjohnson6
If somebody lives in Rhodes Town or wants to self-connect in Rhodes onto a small island nearby or is on some sort of flight-only ticket... it seems rather unreasonable if an airline is refusing passage while the flight still operates
As far as I can tell, the area covering the airport and further north including Rhodes Town seems open
Some flying to Rhodes in July are NOT on a 1-week package. Reality is usually more nuanced than the headlines suggest
That was exactly the point I was making at the outset.
Package tours are one thing; passengers travelling independently are another. If Jet2 is an airline, then passengers who have booked independently should still not be having their flying summarily canned. I do appreciate that possibly, it may not be possible to differentiate between the ticket held by an IT passenger and an independent passenger, but surely for revenue allocation purposes there must be a different series of ticket numbers for IT and independently booked passengers, at least on a flight that was open to be booked on Jet2.com as opposed to Jet2 Holidays.
Stopping all travel to Rhodes (or anywhere else for that matter) appears lazy, and unnecessarily impacts those with reasons other than a package holiday for flying to the island; unless of course the Greek government has banned inbound passengers, or the UK Foreign Office advises against all travel to the area, neither of which is the case yet.