{"id":65934,"date":"2019-09-23T20:35:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T00:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=65934"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:28:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T14:28:12","slug":"close-to-1000-thomas-cook-bookings-made-to-antigua-before-they-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/close-to-1000-thomas-cook-bookings-made-to-antigua-before-they-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Close to 1000 Thomas Cook Bookings Made To Antigua Before They Collapsed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tourism Minister, Charles Fernandez, reports that close to one thousand bookings were made through Thomas Cook to visit the twin island state.<\/p>

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He also added that the collapse of the British Travel firm\u00a0 will not negatively affect Antigua & Barbuda.<\/p>\n

“So far the bookings for this year to come for the winter season is at 996 and actually represents less than one half percent of visitors from the UK.”, he said.<\/p>

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The collapse have left approximately six hundred thousand passengers stranded around the globe.<\/p>

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Minister Fernandez says there are no Thomas Cook passengers on island presently as there is only one flight weekly during the winter season.<\/p>\n

Minister Fernandez says Virgin Atlantic is looking to see how they can assist in transporting those persons to the Caribbean.<\/p>

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“Virgin in any case has agreed to put an extra flight on starting in January next year” he said.<\/p>\n

British tour operator Thomas Cook has ceased trading and all of its hundreds of thousands of bookings were canceled after the firm failed to secure rescue funding. The British Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)\u00a0announced\u00a0the firm’s collapse early Monday. More than 600,000 vacationers had booked through the company.<\/p>

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