I too have paid You travel again (not hays cos of their attitude) and hope to get money back from cc companies, Wife paid half by check so I think that will be lost. I had to pay as other people are booked into the same hotel who would not be able to fly without our assistance (booked by another company) and their holiday would have to be cancelled.
Abta Insist that You Travel will honour, You travel were persuing then stopped on Hays Instructions.
Hays are guilty as sin in this and you are making sense when you offer up conspracy theory.
I am in the process of setting up a petition to No. 10 but it needs to be accepted.
I am thinking about lobbying my local MP as my stance is that I am local to Freedom Direct, used a local company, trying to keep the North east economy going in hard times etc.
Government bails out banks and building societies, even car manufacturers who have been making obscene profits for years and as soon as the balance sheet slips into the red they cry.
They have to take the rough with the smooth thats what business is about, contingency funds should be kept by these major corporations not dishing out bonuses and shareholders bounties.
The government should step in and enforce ABTA ATOL etc to apply this so called AGENCY LAW.
We are not talking millions here as being given to the banks, we are talking a couple of hundred thousands which could be clawed back in no time with a £1 levy on future holidays.
I will post details of my petition whe and if it is accepted.
Rest assured I will not let this Lie, nobody rips of homers thirdnipple!!!!