11.06.18
The CAA have published a response to the feedback from stakeholders responding to its consultation “Modernising ATOL” published in February 2018 (click here for further detail – New ATOL Regulations…
25.04.18
The Government has published the final draft of what will be the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements 2018. The following new definition of a package will apply from 1st…
11.10.17
Consumer protection organisation Which? has accused airlines of misleading customers about the ATOL protection airlines provide under the ATOL scheme. In research done by ‘Which?’, airlines were found to have…
23.08.17
The Government has launched a consultation on plans for ‘Updating Consumer Protection in the Package Travel Sector’. The document sets out the Government’s proposals for updating regulations to align with…
11.07.17
Consumers are to be given broader coverage under the ATOL protection scheme irrespective of how they buy their holiday. People who buy holidays online by booking a flight and are…
23.02.17
The Department for Transport has today given it’s response to the 2016 ATOL consultation “Modernising consumer protection in the package travel sector: ATOL changes”, which is available through the following…
22.11.16
Below you will find the full text of our responses to the ATOL Consultation 2016 Question 1 What are your views on the proposal to align the scope of the…
21.09.16
The demand for travel trusts for merchant facilities has seen an upturn as the failure of the Lowcost Travel Group continues its negative impact across the travel industry – as…
5.08.16
The Government is coming under increasing pressure to legislate against ‘forum shopping’ by non-UK based travel companies selling to UK consumers, who are looking to apply less stringent forms of…
26.07.16
The new Package Travel Directive (PTD), is due to come into force on the January 1, 2018 and following this, the UK is obliged to implement the Directive into its…
2.03.16
In its 2014 Rebalancing ATOL consultation, the CAA proposed withdrawing the Small Business ATOL scheme but following consideration of the industry responses, it subsequently decided to retain it but instead…
11.02.16
We’ve all read plenty about how outdated the old package travel directive is in this (not so) new age of the internet; and we’ve all probably read a bit about…
11.02.16
The dawn of the internet age has brought with it an almost limitless flexibility in the way that travel agents can structure the sale of travel arrangements so as to…
9.08.15
It’s a common misconception that a travel company trust account is just for small or start up businesses. But actually, the travel trust account option of complying with the financial…
9.08.15
In June 2014, the CAA began a consultation process which detailed proposals to discontinue the availability of the Small Business ATOL (SBA) from April 2015. The proposed changes will also…
9.08.15
Trust Accounts are the ‘new black’ for the travel industry, there’s no denying it: there’s increasing talk of the government withdrawing their backing of the Air Travel Trust and if…
9.08.15
Often, my first conversation about a trust account isn’t really about the trust accounts itself. It’s about the commercial objectives of the start up company, the resources they have to…
9.08.15
In May 2013 the Department for Transport called for evidence from the travel industry as part of the government’s ongoing programme of reform of Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (ATOL). It…