Jet2 holidays has pushed back its restart date by more than a month to June 24th in response to publication of the UK Travel Taskforce report which the tour operator says “doesn’t give us anything.” Speaking on a travel webcast after the report was published, chief executive Steve Heapy confirmed the change, saying that the aim to restart in May was “not fair on customers, travel agents and staff.”
Heapy said: “My initial reaction is disappointment, to be honest. After five weeks of the Global Travel Taskforce putting together the report they’ve come up with something that isn’t an awful lot different in structure to that we had in place last summer. They’ve committed to looking at cheaper tests but there’s no real detail.”
