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Derek Moore: 'One word to sum up how I'm feeling? It can only be anger'

Government
Derek Moore
23 August 2021

Asked to reflect on the current state of travel, and my feelings on the situation we find ourselves in, it didn’t take me long to distil everything down to just one word; anger.

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The CAA has launched a new Atol claims portal (Credit: Craig Whitehead / Unsplash)

An anger directed, of course, at Her Majesty’s Government, which has – for some 18 months – abandoned and misled the UK travel business.

Aito chair Chris Rowles,put it succinctly at a recent Aito meeting when he bluntly commented that, above all, he hated being lied to by the government: lied to about wanting to open international travel; lied to about their actions being determined by the science rather than politics; and lied to about "following the data".


Or this, from an Aito member: "The government’s actions have been a muddle of complex, nonsensical, panic-driven and ill-considered measures, all off-putting to hopeful would-be travellers."