Symi Visitor Accommodation

The first groups of Goldtrail holiday customers have now been repatriated from Greece by the UK Civil Aviation Authority. It appears that most Goldtrail customers going to Greece flew with Viking, but Goldtrail wasn’t the charterer of the aircraft – that was Kiss Flights who resold blocks of seats to various tour operators, including Goldtrail and also sold direct to the public.

As a result these flights all seem to be still operating normally today (and Wednesday is the major day for flights to Rhodes ex-UK) so nobody travelling to Symi has anything to worry about, unless they bought a flight-only deal from Goldtrail rather than Kiss. In that case they need to contact the CAA – link given in my last posting.

The Goldtrail share of the market was much greater in travel to Turkey, and they do seem to have been the actual charterer for a number of flights, which have therefore stopped operating. In the main the operating charter airlines were Turkish based, and some of them may be financially damaged by this loss of income. Indeed a Turkish based plane was prevented from taking off for some time earlier today at Leeds-Bradford airport until outstanding airport fees were paid. Most UK regional airports will have lost about 5 plane-loads of passengers a week each as a result of the collapse, and that’s landing fees. car park charges, shop and catering sales which they won’t see, and will try and make up for some other way…..