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Teletext Holidays threatened with court action over unpaid refunds

Government
Rob Gill
16 September 2021

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is vowing to take Teletext Holidays to court unless the travel firm takes “urgent action” to improve how it handles refunds for package holiday customers.

Teletext Holidays still has to pay back refunds of £600,000 to customers whose holidays were cancelled due to the pandemic

Truly Holdings, which operates both Teletext Holidays and Alpharooms.com, signed undertakings in May 2021 committing to “address failures” in how it was refunding customers who had packages cancelled due to Covid-19 and complete refunds by the end of August 2021.

But the CMA said it was “concerned” that not enough Teletext Holidays customers were being refunded within the 14 days required by the law, with almost £600,000 in refunds still to be repaid to holidaymakers.