Originally Posted by
IB4138
Great if you live in the UK and are abroad at the moment, for the CAA to be getting you home at no cost. However, if you are a UK ex-pat presently in the UK with a flight back to your home EU country this/next week, they have done nothing to assist, even though they will have aircraft operating outbound legs from the UK empty for repatriation flights. They have no advice to give, if you ring them. Basically if you are an expat British citizen trying to get home, you are on your own. Double standards.
If you book an air ticket, outside of a package then that is always going to be the situation. What I don't readily understand is why the CAA is apparently repatriating Brits. whether or not they are covered by an ATOL booking, and as you say, if they are doing that, why the shadow airline can't sell vacant seat to these expats wanting to return.
I guess the reason for looking after all Brits coming home is political; especially as the collapse has happened coincidentally with the governing party's annual conference.