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The great British take-off: filling the Thomas Cook-shaped gap in travel

Operators
Gary Noakes
16 March 2022

Say it quietly, but this month should mark the start of what will – fingers crossed – be the first full season of overseas summer holidays for two years.

The collapse of Thomas Cook Group in September 2019 severely dented the Air Travel Trust, or ‘Atol’, fund (Credit: Ronnie Macdonald)

Hopefully, it will be uninterrupted by further outbreaks of Covid, and any further repercussions from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but how far it goes towards a full-scale recreation of summer 2019 is yet to be seen. Partly, this will be down to airlines and operators being cautious, but there is also – three years later – the delayed fallout from the collapse of Thomas Cook.