Opinion: Thomas Cook’s demise should worry the entire UK travel industry

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Changes in holiday habits and readily available cheap accommodation have put a strain on similar agents on the high street

revolutionised European air travel, charter airlines were the cheapest way to fly. Now any of us can buy a seat, provided we book at the right time and shop around a bit, at close to the price that a tour operator’s airline has to charge its parent company for one. So the advantage to the tour operator that it can make a profit on the flight has largely disappeared.

 

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Well, I suspect many will be staying local or going to Seahouses and Whitley Bay.

Forget Thomas Cook, I shudder to think of what the Brexit cat will drag in.

The hedge funds shorting the economy are out for blood. 2008/9 all over again.

It's over. Back to Blackpool and Margate.

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