Thomas Cook really is going to go bump

[Rich]

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

[Ash]

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.

[Rich]

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

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

Different walks of life, I suspect.

[Pokster]

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!

[Ash]

Yep, because all package holidays are just like that!

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

[WES]

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?

[Pokster]

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.

[Rich]

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

[Pokster]

Sounds like a northern thing, then.

All inclusive

We all think Rich is a ****

[IUFG]

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

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

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.