Yes, and we could all charter Concorde too! (except they don't do charters anymore)
People are highlighting the lack of choice for a particular holiday, you just cannot book a thompson holiday and then decide you don't want the flight and will book your own. Not just for financial reasons, but also because of logistics, the brittannia flight arrives, pax are taken to ship and it then sails. The tour rep does not wait at the airport for the 'difficult' passenger who wants to travel on a different airline.
When you book a package holiday the flight comes with it - it is a 'package'. The average punter would not know how to change that.
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