Package Holiday Firms Suffering Turbulence!

September 12th 2008: Only last week, transatlatic airline Zoom who run, actually, better make that “ran“, package holidays between the UK and the USA announced that they had gone into receivership leaving thousands of passengers out of pocket or stranded abroad. They have since blamed creditors for their downfall and said that the chances of resuming operations are “slim”.

And this week, the XL travel firm who also operate package holidays and have their own airline also appear to have, forgive the pun, crashed and burned.

The message here I guess is, while obviously wanting cheap holiday deals, be careful who you book through and in these somewhat turbulent times, perhaps it’s safest to pay a few dollars more and go wih a name you trust. I’m booked on an Easyjet flight in two weeks, followed by a Virgin flight in November, and I’ll eat my hat if either of them don’t last out!