Aegean / H4U Go Bust

[maria1949]

Had an e-mail from Sumaster holidays today, with who we are booked to come out with in september, it reads, in light of recent failure of H4U we have received several calls from concerned customers thinking they had lost their holiday, but they said my holiday accommodation is booked with Hotels4U not hols 4 u and my booking is un-affected but they said nothing about the flight.confused.com.think i will give them a ring anyone else booked with Sunmaster.

[shandy]

Oh well looks like the other tour operators are pushing their prices up and taking advantage of other peoples misfortunes, I managed to book for September with EasyJet yesterday afternoon paying double what I paid Aegean but tonight the exact same flights for 2 adults one child are over £1000, its criminal!  In todays paper MD of Thomas Cook has resigned as their profits are down - looks like they could be next to go, don't think anyone is safe in this climate, its quite scary x

[doubletwo]

quote:Originally posted by sagirl

Rimms, are you sending your claim direct to CAA?  Our travel agent which is Travel Republic told us to send it to them first as they have a protion to fill in and they will send it to the CAA.  We have also downloaded the form off the CAA website and are attaching proof of payment.  We too have the extra ATOL charge shown on our receipt for our airfare I have been told we are fully protected.

sagirl,last year we booked through Travel Republic and when Kiss Flights went down we contacted TR.They also told us exactly what they have told you so we sent our completed claim form to them and not the CAA.We left it to TR to sort things out and it took about 4 months as they go in alphabetical order apparently.You WILL get you money back if you are ATOL protected it just takes a while.
Good Luck.

[madmart]

Someone has suggested Easyjet have not released there flights for June 2012. On past experience Easyjet will not release Dalaman flights for next year until the end October/beginning November.

Though having just looked at their website the fares do seem to have increased. However that is their business model the fewr seats left the more they are.

[hillside]

Easyjet released their flights for April May and June 2 weeks ago from Bristol, Manchester and Stansted - but they havent yet released their Gatwick flights for early summer

[kevskid]

Thank you all for welcomingly pointing out that I am a coldhearted unfeeling inappropriate prat.

Let me tell you about my day yesterday.

We heard on the radio that Aegean had gone down, contacted our card provider to confirm we could get a refund, and I set about finding new flights - we have had a tough year and the one thing keeping us going was the thought of our holiday, time away from it all with our kids. I managed to get some flights - but it cost £2200, compared to the £700-odd that we paid when we booked the flights with Aegean in June 2010.  All that done, I put the kettle on, and my husband got an email out of the blue telling him that he has been made redundant from his job. Out of the blue, by email. We have three kids and a mortgage like everyone. Then I come online and see adverts for flights to Dalaman for £144 and it just takes the biscuit.

All in all a pretty **** day, but if you all want to be judgemental and assume that I am heartlessly laughing at the situation that this has all caused to others, then just go on ahead. I am trying to keep my chin up, and have more problems to deal with right now than the opinions of small minded people

I hope you all have a lovely summer.

[marytheresa]

Can anyone tell me why flythomascook has depature dates for augusut dalaman to gatwick but shwoing flight as onur air atol bonded[?]

thanks

[Highlander]

kevskid - I'm sure that you do have other things to sort out at the moment but I am also sure of two other things.

1. if you re-read the posts you will see that more people were on your side than against and

2. that many, many people on here will sympathise with your present circumstances.

I hope things pick up for you and the family very soon.

[Scunner]

Has this turned into an "Our loss is worse than yours" competition?

Nobody is rejoicing over this bad news, surely that is all people need to know.

[kevskid]

Thanks Highlander.

I haven't been online today, trying to work etc, and it just came as a bit of a shock to read the judgemental attacks. I'm not trying to tell a big sob story or 'compete' with anyone, I just feel that I was inappropriately treated by some posters here.

I think the problem with internet forums is that people read things into comments that weren't there or even implied - and of course none of those who jumped on my comment have any awareness of me or my situation.

Hey ho.