Not many. If the uptake isnt good enough the tour ops will cancel flights left right and centre and increase the price on the ones already there. Mark my words.

You could be right but isnt that counter productive, take 10% less profit 90% is better than nothing.Or when and if the good times come back there will be no hotels to send pax to they will be full of Russians who seem to have money to burn at the moment Dubai is full of them.

Ah, but you see the independant agent is already expected by the consumer to give 75% of its profit back to the client in discount and if they give any more they cannot survive.

Plus the multiples pay their own agents more commission to book their products than they do independents so the independents simply cannot compete.

eg Pay own agent 15% commission allowing 10% discount and can match web etc
pay independent 7.5% commision max they can give disc is 2.5% if they want to keep profitable.

we've booked our holiday for next year and my hubby has just be paid off his work. paid the deposit and have been told we will lose that money. must be a way round this, unless he gets a new job quickly.

we've booked our holiday for next year and my hubby has just be paid off his work. paid the deposit and have been told we will lose that money. must be a way round this, unless he gets a new job quickly.

Whilst you may have to forfeit the deposit should he not get another job I would not cancel at this stage unless you really have to.

The T&Cs will tell you the cancellation time scale where all you lose is the deposit. If you do have to cancel then wait until nearer that date before you do so. Silly to cancel now and lose it if you have a few months to go before you incur more expense.

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If you already have the money in savings, pay off the holiday now as a pre existing debt. If you don't then good luck in hunting for a job.

My own experience is due to the fact I worked for a company that would not do a pension scheme for us, so I put the money into an ISA. When I was made redundant, my ISA was declared savings, not a pension. Therefore as I have savings I am not entitled to any benefits until I have spent them all.
The big however is that you can only spend them how they say or you are deemed to be making yourself purposely destitute and as such don't qualify for benefits - catch 22. Pre-existing debts are OK though although they would not let me pay off my mortgage on one occasion.

Really good luck with the job hunting, I am about to celebrate my first year of full time job searching and I usually apply for 5 jobs a week.

Did you take out travel insurance as I have a feeling some of those cover redundancy.

looked into insurance and some companies don't do it if it's more than a year and it is more than a year from when we booked