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Maybe not, but it’s clear from social media and the news some pretty big package resort hotels have been evacuated and some completely destroyed. The inevitable consequence is a shortage of rooms if you continue to bring in the full quota of customers. That also applies to flight only, I suspect a number of whom would be pleased not to be forced to travel and get a refund/insurance unlike if they were with Ryanair etc.
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Maybe not, but it’s clear from social media and the news some pretty big package resort hotels have been evacuated and some completely destroyed. The inevitable consequence is a shortage of rooms if you continue to bring in the full quota of customers. That also applies to flight only, I suspect a number of whom would be pleased not to be forced to travel and get a refund/insurance unlike if they were with Ryanair etc.
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Hi VickersViscount I have done this a few times at BHX useful if you live a fair distance from the airport and have an early departure and need to take luggage so requiring airport hotel overnight stay. It makes sense then and you have more time to have your breakfast too!
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with the launch of more Twilight Check-Ins at other UK airports, am I missing the attraction? So you need to travel to the airport for a second trip (finding and paying for parking) then lug over luggage and then go home again only to repeat it at eg 6am the next morning in order to avoid a check in queue? Suppose might be beneficial if you were overnighting in an onsite airport hotel.
The pre 10am morning rush at BHX can be a nightmare so, assuming you're on a bucket and spade flight at 6am, then not having to queue twice at 3 or 4am for both check-in and then security for me is win/win!
Looks like the Greek authorities could do with a lesson from jet2 ops. Rhodes is an island of 125k people with another 80k tourist beds (depending on which site you trust). 17 k people have already been evacuated from their accommodation, so nearly 10%. The first rule of crisis management is to stop making it worse. In this case stop sending people out.
For sure jet2 reservations will have received a lot of calls from worried future holidaymakers so they have made it easy for folks to cancel, I’m sure they have the capacity to absorb those holidaymakers onto other packages. It probably makes economic sense immediately and in the future, ie they looked after their customers by cancelling and rebooking and removed a lot of uncertainty from those worried folks. It also separates them from the vociferously outraged on the news who expect miracles to happen when stuff goes wrong, but still want a holiday for 400 quid.
For sure jet2 reservations will have received a lot of calls from worried future holidaymakers so they have made it easy for folks to cancel, I’m sure they have the capacity to absorb those holidaymakers onto other packages. It probably makes economic sense immediately and in the future, ie they looked after their customers by cancelling and rebooking and removed a lot of uncertainty from those worried folks. It also separates them from the vociferously outraged on the news who expect miracles to happen when stuff goes wrong, but still want a holiday for 400 quid.
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
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
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
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
If there are any passengers who have booked a seat only ticket then they will invariably be dealt with on an individual basis, but I doubt there will be many (if any) seat only passengers and the company will have had this information to hand prior to making this decision.
Booking.com reports plenty of hotels with space TONIGHT in Rhodes Town, Faliraki and nearby at about £100 per night.
The (few) resorts in the south east of the island are burning... the north is not.
The (few) resorts in the south east of the island are burning... the north is not.
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
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
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.
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From there the Tour Operators, FCO (not that they are much use), and Greek authorities will be able to understand the scale and impact this has had on the resorts affected and then displace the tourists around the island so that they can enjoy their holiday.
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.
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.
It may well be that if there were seat only passengers booked then they would be given travel, it’s not unheard of, especially at the start of a season, to only have one or two passengers on the empty return leg.
Jet2Holidays tend to have hotels contracts and do not own outright. The ones on booking.com may not be Jet2 contracted accommodation providers. I also expect that many of the people affected may not really want to hang around in Rhodes after what has happened.
Let’s face it, one thing they are not doing is leaving passengers stranded. I understand they have deployed more people to the island to help too.
Pug,
I understand exactly what you mean but people like ourselves who avoid IT holidays like the plague may well have booked hotels, tavernas or perhaps even chartered a boat and booked return flights with Jet2.
If they have their flights cancelled, while they will get refunded for that booking they would probably lose the money they have paid for accommodation and you can bet insurance companies will refuse to pay out if the property was still available.
Can't fault Jet2 Holidays, or the other tour operators for the prompt action they have taken to get their package customers home, but that is a different issue.
I understand exactly what you mean but people like ourselves who avoid IT holidays like the plague may well have booked hotels, tavernas or perhaps even chartered a boat and booked return flights with Jet2.
If they have their flights cancelled, while they will get refunded for that booking they would probably lose the money they have paid for accommodation and you can bet insurance companies will refuse to pay out if the property was still available.
Can't fault Jet2 Holidays, or the other tour operators for the prompt action they have taken to get their package customers home, but that is a different issue.
Pug,
I understand exactly what you mean but people like ourselves who avoid IT holidays like the plague may well have booked hotels, tavernas or perhaps even chartered a boat and booked return flights with Jet2.
If they have their flights cancelled, while they will get refunded for that booking they would probably lose the money they have paid for accommodation and you can bet insurance companies will refuse to pay out if the property was still available.
Can't fault Jet2 Holidays, or the other tour operators for the prompt action they have taken to get their package customers home, but that is a different issue.
I understand exactly what you mean but people like ourselves who avoid IT holidays like the plague may well have booked hotels, tavernas or perhaps even chartered a boat and booked return flights with Jet2.
If they have their flights cancelled, while they will get refunded for that booking they would probably lose the money they have paid for accommodation and you can bet insurance companies will refuse to pay out if the property was still available.
Can't fault Jet2 Holidays, or the other tour operators for the prompt action they have taken to get their package customers home, but that is a different issue.
I am confident all of those points will have been considered prior to making the decision they have made, which leads me to believe that the passengers booked are all on Jet2Holidays packages. I could be wrong but I don’t believe they would bar anyone from travelling on a seat only ticket unless there was Greek or U.K. Authority intervention.
I am confident all of those points will have been considered prior to making the decision they have made, which leads me to believe that the passengers booked are all on Jet2Holidays packages. I could be wrong but I don’t believe they would bar anyone from travelling on a seat only ticket unless there was Greek or U.K. Authority intervention.
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Credit where it is due Jet2 have managed to find, crew and send 4 additional aircraft this afternoon (2 738s from LBA, 1 738 from BHX and 1 321 from MAN) to get extra customers home on top of this afternoons scheduled flights.
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It’s known there are airlines still running flights to Rhodes as scheduled. If there are any flight-only pax hit by ‘unnecessarily’ cancelled Jet2 flights, isn’t it possible Jet2 have rebooked them on other carriers? The fact we’ve not heard from such people I assume means either they don’t exist or they’ve been adequately looked after.