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.”
The programme currently includes 16 hotels and the three weekly flights to Enfidha, with Glasgow set to be added from April and Newcastle and London Stansted from May, eventually totalling six flights per week.
Thomas Cook will also be running its first mega fam to the country, with 100 Cook agents visiting Tunisia for three nights at the end of March.
TTG joined the operator for the first flight back to Tunisia from Birmingham to Enfidha–Hammamet International airport on Tuesday, where disembarking customers were met with singing and dancing by jubilant Tunisians.
At one of Thomas Cook’s three own-brand hotels in Hammamet, Sentido Phenicia, hotel sales manager Ghazi Riahi said staff were “ecstatic” that British tourists were returning.
