Submitted on Tuesday 28th April 2020
Rejected on Friday 29th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Force travel agencies to refund customers where holidays have been cancelled.
Ensure travel agencies abide by the law and issue refunds within the required timescale of 14 days.
Currently if you have had your holiday cancelled you are entitiled to receive a full refund within 14 days. What travel agencies are doing is trying to fob you off with vouchers for future use and evading any request for refunds. They are also attempting to influence you to claim on insurance. In most cases especially with currently people just want their refund which is being refused.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Arrangements for refunding, changing or rebooking travel are a civil matter between individual travellers and airlines or travel agents, not the Government or Parliament.
The Civil Aviation Authority, which regulates the UK aviation industry, has provided guidance on passenger rights and how to make a claim: www.caa.co.uk/Passengers/Resolving-Travel-Problems/Delays-and-cancellations/
We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Require travel companies & airlines to pay compensation if no refund in 14 days: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/317878
Create a fund to reimburse money lost due to covid-19 travel cancellations: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304912
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/
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