TCAS
 

To Ana36, stop your direct debits immediately. Your claim under ATOL is for the amount paid up to the date of failure. Make sure you have all the receipts, The CAA has indicated that the claims system will be running by September 30 and they aim to pay everyone with valid claims within 2 months

Don't know about that, but you have Ving AB in Sweden, Ving AS in Norway, Tjäreborg in Finland and Spies in Denmark. All apparently well run and making money.
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Is this true? If so, they (BA) just lost me as a customer.

Reporting was that they had extended credit to their holding company. If true, that would be gone now.

Also, half of their revenue is with TC package tours, and they were not allowed to take pax on package tours any longer, just those that had booked just the flight. This is going to hit them really fast.

And lastly, eight of their A321 and one A330 are listed as operated by TC Aviation or TC Airlines. What about those?

Bad luck for Pax out of Orlando.

Atlas B744 over Atlantic on Sep 23rd 2019, system malfunction

Condor
 

No, it's wrong/misleading on several counts (no surprise, given that it came from the Sun).

So you can safely continue to fly BA. :O

sorry, true. BA investigating. Other bases were helpful.

Piecing together other, less histrionic reports than the Sun's, while BA were certainly inflexible and unhelpful it seems likely that the situation resulted from a combination of "computer says no" and one or more jobsworths within the organisation, rather than malice or bl**dy-mindedness on BA's part.

Strictly speaking (and sadly) by the time the TCX CC were attempting to get back to the UK on BA, they were civilians and no longer airline employees. So while BA could have bent the rules and still given them jump seats (probably without any comeback) the chances are that such a decision was above the pay grade of whoever was asked to make it.

As for the "extortionate" £10K for a seat (actually $10,000), well yes it's extortionate, but that's pretty much what you pay as a walk-up on LAS/LHR in business class (Y was full on the flight in question). Of course the Sun conveniently forgot to mention that fact. :O

Anyway, regardless of the rights and wrongs, it's good to hear that Virgin were able to take a more enlightened attitude.

Yes, of course they are, having scored a spectacular PR own-goal.

Interesting that the German government has now approved a 380MM Euro credit for Condor even as that carrier files for bankruptcy, while the rescue of TC apparently failed because of a last minute request for an additional 200MM Sterling.
Considering the human cost of this collapse, it is unfortunate that the governments involved don't seem to communicate especially well.

I'll bet the credit card companies are on the hook for a whole pile more than this for customer refunds of prepaid future holidays with TCX.

I'm not sure the payment arrangement between credit card companies and travel companies, but if they pay TCX ahead of the actual holiday, they are effectively extending credit to TCX. At some point with writing on wall, they say no more bad money after good.

To be fair to BA (just this once ;)) from what I'm hearing the controversy over the $10,000 tickets seems to have been generated by certain people not getting the memo, rather than corporate policy dictated at Head Office... Of course once the now infamous tweet was out there the story grew via MSM and in a PR battle between Virgin and BA there's only going to be one winner.