Some Thomas Cook Jobs Saved

[retrocop]

Lets hope management keep their fingers out the tills after this takeover.




https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/09/hays-travel-buys-555-thomas-cook-shops-takes-staff-10887568/?ico=pushly-notifcation-small&utm_source=pushly

[tiggerblue10]

Good luck to them.

Is there still a big demand for high street travel agents? I always book online and most people I know do the same.

[ummmm]

I found with high street travel agents the staff were well traveled and could give you the benefit of first hand experience.

Travel brochures and sites like Tripadvisor can't really be trusted.

I do book all my holidays online now but much more homework goes into it.

[teacake44]

It just go's to prove that when one company almost dominates a certain market, how dangerous that can be, ie Tomas Cook. We have supermarkets that almost dominate fuel stations. Most other private stations have gone to the wall, that's never a good situation for the customer. Hence you need the private enterprise or you see the price hikes.

[youngmafbog]

Supermarkets do not dominate fuel stations, and even if they did they are all separate companies.

As for management keeping their fingers out the tills this is a totally separate company taking over just the shops a far as I can see.

[bednobs]

I book my holidays at the travel agent still

[Zacs-Master]

It's fine keeping the shops open (and I'm very please for the staff) but don't they need the TC holiday's to sell as well? And the planes to ply people to their destinations?

[theshedman]

Was thinking the same thing myself Zacs.

[TheChair]

Hate to say it, but I reckon they'll be down the tube within 4 years.

[teacake44]

I don't think TC had any problems selling holidays at all, there were 150k on holiday at the time, and many many more booked for this year and next. Its the crooks that were running the show where the problem lay.

[retrocop]

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It's fine keeping the shops open (and I'm very please for the staff) but don't they need the TC holiday's to sell as well? And the planes to ply people to their destinations?

That is why the headline is headed with 'Some' at the beginning. It doesn't include flight crews etc.

[ludwig]

It was maintaining the overheads of all the shops that caused Thomas Cook such problems in the first place. The new owners can't be planning to keep them all.

[teacake44]

I believe the big knobs at TC bought other travel companies, the co.op being one of them, along with others, as far back as the last recession. This was at a time when a lot of folk stopped booking holidays over seas. You do have to ask why, when TC was also struggling at that time as well. Maybe a lot to do with shares, ( you no) make a killing overnight for the directors, along with a few back handers I suspect.