thanks Sma for your help seems a bit more hopeful now if if i have to pay a return flight at least we can travel together as hes neverflow before cheers ! sharon

Hi,

Do you mean that you are thinking of therefore trying to book him a return ticket from London with Thomson and only use the inbound half of the ticket? If you do then don't do that either - if the outbound half isn't used they'll cancel the ticket immediately on the grounds that h was a 'no show'. The logic being that if he didn't use the outbound flight, well, he never went to Tunisia in the first place and will have no need of the return flight. Either way he'll still be refused boarding in Tunisia.

It might work if you book him a return flight Tunisia/London/Tunisia as long as he can definitely produce a visa at check-in for entry into the UK but Thomson will know that he could still be denied entry here and might be reluctant to accept the booking even so. And in fact I've just noticed that he'll be trying to gain entry on a visitors visa, in which case unless he can produce evidence of having a return flight booked then there's a good chance that he will be denied entry even if you book with a scheduled airline. In the absence of such proof that he will be returning to Tunisia at some point before the visitors visa expires then they will be worried that he might be intending to try and remain in this country illegally.

I think that you have no option other than for him to fly with one of the scheduled airlines but before booking any tickets you really should check out what his chances are of being granted a visitors visa and whether the conditions of such a visa will include being able to produce a return ticket back to Tunisia before being allowed to entre the UK. If you book the tickets first then you stand the chance of both him being denied entry and of you losing the money paid out for his flights. If you want to be able to travel together from Tunisia then it might be best to simply book your own flights on the same scheduled carrier as you are able to book him on to.

SM

As others have said, make sure he has his visitor's visa before you book any flights at all for him. Once he has that, if you want him to travel with you it would be better for you to book an outbound flight for yourself from the UK then book return flights for both of you from Tunis with either BA or Tunisair, even if you don't intend to use your return flight. I know it sounds strange, but the cost of a return flight can be cheaper than a single from Tunisia. Friends of mine have done this. The wife flew to the UK last year in readiness for the birth of their baby and her husband joined her soon after, on a return ticket. They will not be using his return as they will be getting considerably cheaper flights with BA when they return to Tunisia to show off their baby boy to his grandparents.

hi thanks for your helpful comments with flights. I have already booked my return flight in october with thomsons thinking that my boyfriend could hopefully buy a seat on the same flight (pending visitors visa) but now i realize this may not be the option, so i may just forfiet my return ticket and book one return for him and one single for me from Tunis to London, do you need to go to tunis and buy tickets or can you buy from Mon astir airport/sousse area and whos the cheapest tunisair or ba ??? any ideas folks - thanks for all your help

sharonb

OK Sharon, I've done a bit of research for you. As I suspected, it's considerably more expensive to get a single flight from Tunis than a return. The good news is that you can book BA from here and I've done a 'dummy run' for you putting in a date of 20th October. All prices of flights from Tunis are in dinars and a single flight is TDN 805.
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/fx/public/en_gb?eId=111011&timestamp=0819123128

However, I've also priced up a return flight for a month and this works out at a much more reasonable TDN 115 e/w.
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/fx/public/en_gb?eId=111011&timestamp=0819122054

Hope this is some help.

This is driving me mad. I can only seem to make one link work. The second link takes over from the first but as long as you have one link you can check it out for yourself.

thanks for that your a star!!!!

will def use next time as this time ive booked my flight and wont book his until we know hes got his visa im flying out to monastir on 11/10 and already made appt on line with embassy in tunis for 13th so wish myself and ridha luck !!!!

sharonb

Wish you both lots of luck Sharon.

Good Luck Sharon
My friend and I visited Tunisia for the first time 2 years ago and she met a man there,theyre married now and he lives here with her,settled and working,theyre both so happy.

i thanks for your reply did your friend get married in tunisia? if so did she have to stay over there for 21 days ???

Sharonb

No she went over for 2 weeks if i remember rightly,definately not 3 though.She went in may did the paperwork bit then went back in August and did the wedding ceremony.If you need to know anything ill ask her for you :-)