Following visits to resorts in Gennadi, Kiotari and Lachania, Jet2holidays has cancelled all holidays to these areas departing up to and on Sunday 13 August. Affected customers will be contacted by the operator to arrange alternative holidays, or will have the option to cancel with a full refund.
By the end of Wednesday (26 July), Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will have operated a combination of 20 repatriation and scheduled flights to Rhodes to fly out support teams and fly home guests.
"We continue to fly aircraft to Rhodes with no customers onboard, so that we can bring our customers back to the UK on their scheduled flights, as well as any additional Jet2 customers who wish to return to the UK," a spokesperson said.
All of the operator’s flights and holidays to Rhodes remain cancelled up to and including Sunday 30 July. From Monday 31 July onwards, Jet2 will operate as normal to hotels, villas, and resorts in the north of Rhodes.
It comes after Tui confirmed earlier on Wednesday no outbound flights would operate to Rhodes up to and including Friday (28 July). The airline and oeprator on Wednesday (26 July) suspended holiday operations to more than 40 resorts across areas of southern Rhodes until mid-August.
EasyJet holidays, meanwhile, said it was continuing to monitor the situation after it cancelled all holidays to Kalathos, Lardos, Lindos and Pefkos departing up to and on Friday (29 July), and those to Gennadi, Kiatori and Lahania departing up to and on 10 August.
"We’re pleased to have returned all our impacted customers home from Rhodes and we’re in touch with them to offer additional support," the operator said.
A spokesperson for easyJet said: "There are currently no more repatriation flights planned as we continue to operate our normal Rhodes schedule, which still has availability in the coming days."
Jet2, Tui and easyJet have operated a number of repatriation flights from Rhodes since the fires broke out across the island over the weekend.
Elsewhere, Mediterranean destinations remain on high alert as wildfires continue to rage across several countries in southern Europe, prompting Italy’s civil protection minister to call for urgent action to address the climate crisis.
