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Tunisia: First UK charter since 2015 Sousse attack

Hotels
Sophie Griffiths
14 February 2018

Tunisia welcomed the return of the first UK charter flights this week, almost three years after the Sousse terror attack which killed 30 British tourists in June 2015.

Tunisian hoteliers greet British holidaymakers upon arrival in Hammamet

Thomas Cook’s Birmingham, Manchester and Gatwick flights to Enfidha, which took off on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, were all sold out, and Cook group chief executive Peter Fankhauser insisted the company’s overall Tunisia programme was “very well booked”.


Speaking following the release of Thomas Cook Group’s first quarter trading results last week, Fankhauser said: “We are carefully going in, we feel well prepared.


“They [flights and hotels] are very well booked so there is a customer demand and then we are ramping it up to six flights a week in the summer season.”