The PTRs are currently subject to a review by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Beis) following Brexit, now that the UK no longer needs to implement the EU Package Travel Directive – the directive on which the PTRs are based.
However, the review will run alongside a separate EU review of the PTD and could, according to Abta senior solicitor Paula Macfarlane, result in the UK and EU diverging more significantly in terms of how package travel is regulated in future. "It could be happening now," she said.
