Thomas Cook really is going to go bump

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05-16-2019, 10:51 AM
PSRB

Thomas Cook really is going to go bump

no wonder they're not sticking on extra flights to Baku!!

https://news.sky.com/story/thomas-co...snt-sf-twitter
05-16-2019, 10:55 AM
Luis Anaconda

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Originally Posted by PSRB

no wonder they're not sticking on extra flights to Baku!!

https://news.sky.com/story/thomas-co...snt-sf-twitter

Good - the most unpleasant companies I have ever worked with. Rude, arrogant bullies
05-16-2019, 11:05 AM
Maravilloso Marvo

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Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda

Good - the most unpleasant companies I have ever worked with. Rude, arrogant bullies

Did your holiday rep reject your advances?
05-16-2019, 11:07 AM
Luis Anaconda

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Originally Posted by Maravilloso Marvo

Did your holiday rep reject your advances?

Nothing like that - they made me go to Peterborough for one thing
05-16-2019, 11:19 AM
Pat Vegas

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Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda

Good - the most unpleasant companies I have ever worked with. Rude, arrogant bullies

:nod: I worked for a smaller company before and Thomas cook tried to just force us out.
bunch of cunds
05-16-2019, 11:52 AM
barrybueno

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Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda

Nothing like that - they made me go to Peterborough for one thing

Those square deal holidays can really backfire sometimes :-(
05-16-2019, 01:03 PM
7sisters

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Originally Posted by PSRB

no wonder they're not sticking on extra flights to Baku!!

https://news.sky.com/story/thomas-co...snt-sf-twitter

I’m not sure why people would put off travelling to Europe for their hols due to Brexit ? Is it because they think they won’t be let in, or because they’re worried about job losses.
05-16-2019, 01:09 PM
Rich

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Originally Posted by PSRB

no wonder they're not sticking on extra flights to Baku!!

https://news.sky.com/story/thomas-co...snt-sf-twitter

I struggle to comprehend why anyone would book a package holiday; be it with Thomas Cook or any of the other odious companies out there.

Get on to a Thomas Cook aircraft, then onto a Thomas Cook bus to your Thomas Cook hotel where Thomas Cook food can be consumed from a Thomas Cook buffet. Don't leave the resort for a week before getting back on the Thomas Cook bus to go home :-(
05-16-2019, 01:11 PM
Ash

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Originally Posted by Rich

I struggle to comprehend why anyone would book a package holiday; be it with Thomas Cook or any of the other odious companies out there.

Get on to a Thomas Cook aircraft, then onto a Thomas Cook bus to your Thomas Cook hotel where Thomas Cook food can be consumed from a Thomas Cook buffet. Don't leave the resort for a week before getting back on the Thomas Cook bus to go home :-(

At least their customers can be safe in the knowledge that they won't have to meet you while on holiday. :thumbup:
05-16-2019, 01:13 PM
Rich

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Originally Posted by Ash

At least their customers can be safe in the knowledge that they won't have to meet you while on holiday. :thumbup:

I don’t think I’d especially enjoy mixing with their ilk, tbh.

Different walks of life, I suspect.
05-16-2019, 01:27 PM
Pokster

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Originally Posted by Rich

I struggle to comprehend why anyone would book a package holiday; be it with Thomas Cook or any of the other odious companies out there.

Get on to a Thomas Cook aircraft, then onto a Thomas Cook bus to your Thomas Cook hotel where Thomas Cook food can be consumed from a Thomas Cook buffet. Don't leave the resort for a week before getting back on the Thomas Cook bus to go home :-(

Yep, because all package holidays are just like that! :rolleyes:
05-16-2019, 01:33 PM
Ash

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Originally Posted by Pokster

Yep, because all package holidays are just like that! :rolleyes:

The best ones are in Dubai, I've heard. :-)
05-16-2019, 01:36 PM
PSRB

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Originally Posted by 7sisters

I’m not sure why people would put off travelling to Europe for their hols due to Brexit ? Is it because they think they won’t be let in, or because they’re worried about job losses.

It's utter *******s, just a lame excuse
05-16-2019, 01:37 PM
PSRB

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Originally Posted by Pokster

Yep, because all package holidays are just like that! :rolleyes:

Quite, can't wait for my all inclusive week in Cyprus, swim up room, loads of stuff for the kids to do
05-16-2019, 01:55 PM
Pokster

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Originally Posted by PSRB

Quite, can't wait for my all inclusive week in Cyprus, swim up room, loads of stuff for the kids to do

And the extra protection you get from having booked it as a package......

Same here, 10 days in turkey, all inclusive, top ranked Hotel, what's not to love
05-16-2019, 01:57 PM
WES

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Originally Posted by Ash

The best ones are in Dubai, I've heard. :-)

Certainly has been my experience. :-)

Although I'm not too sure what makes a holiday a package holiday. If I phone a travel agent up and tell them I want a specific resort for 7 days in mid October and I want to fly with a certain airline and they come back with a price for transfers, hotel and flights, have I just purchased a package holiday?
05-16-2019, 02:02 PM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by PSRB

no wonder they're not sticking on extra flights to Baku!!

https://news.sky.com/story/thomas-co...snt-sf-twitter

I feel almost guilty about how hard I stiffed Thomas Cook. :hehe: No I don't.
05-16-2019, 02:04 PM
Pokster

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Originally Posted by WES

Certainly has been my experience. :-)

Although I'm not too sure what makes a holiday a package holiday. If I phone a travel agent up and tell them I want a specific resort for 7 days in mid October and I want to fly with a certain airline and they come back with a price for transfers, hotel and flights, have I just purchased a package holiday?

No........ you have done what you would do at home and booked all the individual parts of a holiday. Package holiday is when the company "buys" seats and hotel rooms and sells them on as a package.
05-16-2019, 02:05 PM
Luis Anaconda

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Originally Posted by Sir C

I feel almost guilty about how hard I stiffed Thomas Cook. :hehe: No I don't.

:bow: :bow:
05-16-2019, 02:07 PM
PSRB

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Originally Posted by Pokster

And the extra protection you get from having booked it as a package......

Same here, 10 days in turkey, all inclusive, top ranked Hotel, what's not to love

Clearly there are some less desirable packages and destinations and most unfortunately the flights are not separated by hotel rating. I suspect there will be some Ayia Napa types on my flight
05-16-2019, 02:08 PM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda

:bow: :bow:

Must have been all of 50k :cloud9: And in the 90s 50k got you a fair few pots of KFC gravy, la. :eat:
05-16-2019, 02:17 PM
Herbert Augustus Chapman

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Originally Posted by Pokster

And the extra protection you get from having booked it as a package......

Same here, 10 days in turkey, all inclusive, top ranked Hotel, what's not to love

What added protection? It's always packages that go tits up
05-16-2019, 02:19 PM
PSRB

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Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman

What added protection? It's always packages that go tits up

All ABTA/ATOL covered, not always the case if you buy separately
05-16-2019, 02:23 PM
Pokster

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Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman

What added protection? It's always packages that go tits up

As per psrb , far more finaniclly safe than booking flights and hotels seperately
05-16-2019, 02:23 PM
Ash

Rich thinks you're all plebs. :hehe:
05-16-2019, 02:28 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Ash

Rich thinks you're all plebs. :hehe:

Rich didn't even go to public school, so Rich can take his snobbery and shove it up his state-educated arse imo.
05-16-2019, 02:30 PM
Pokster

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Originally Posted by Ash

Rich thinks you're all plebs. :hehe:

We all think Rich is a **** :shrug:
05-16-2019, 02:36 PM
Rich

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Originally Posted by Pokster

No........ you have done what you would do at home and booked all the individual parts of a holiday. Package holiday is when the company "buys" seats and hotel rooms and sells them on as a package.

Sounds like a northern thing, then.

All inclusive :-(
05-16-2019, 02:37 PM
Rich

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Originally Posted by Burney

Rich didn't even go to public school, so Rich can take his snobbery and shove it up his state-educated arse imo.

I went to a Grammar School, B. Had I not been intelligent enough to get in I had a place at Bryanston.
05-16-2019, 02:45 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Rich

I went to a Grammar School, B. Had I not been intelligent enough to get in I had a place at Bryanston.

Oh. Parents a bit mean, eh? Poor show. :-(

Anyway, you probably dodged a bullet. I had to look Bryanston up. It was founded in 1928 for God's sake! Not a proper school at all.
05-16-2019, 02:48 PM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by Ash

The best ones are in Dubai, I've heard. :-)

:thumbup: the Russian roulette of what type of taxi driver you get from DXB to your destination :cloud9:

The last won I got had only arrived in Dubai two days previously, stank to high heaven and didn't know how to turn the AC on. :-(
05-16-2019, 03:35 PM
Ash

I should just point out that I have not been to Dubai or on a Package Holiday since I was a child. NTTAWWT.
05-16-2019, 03:44 PM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by Ash

I should just point out that I have not been to Dubai or on a Package Holiday since I was a child. NTTAWWT.

You ain't missing much, a
05-16-2019, 03:53 PM
Viva Prat Vegas

The only time my family ever saw the Thomas Cook rep was on the coach from airport to hotel at the start of the holiday and then again on the return journey a fortnight later
None of that group ****e for us thanks very much
05-17-2019, 06:43 AM
Pokster

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Originally Posted by Rich

Sounds like a northern thing, then.

All inclusive :-(

We all think Rich is a ****
05-17-2019, 09:04 AM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by Pokster

We all think Rich is a ****

implicit and therefore superfluous. imo

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