Submitted on Tuesday 19th May 2020
Rejected on Friday 29th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Help customers get holiday refunds - by allowing travel companies flexibility.
Amend article 12 of The Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements
Regulations 2018 to offer refunds in more than 14 days and other flexible options. The FCO should provide end date of advice against all non-essential overseas travel as currently leaving travellers and industry in limbo.
Both customers and industry, which supports over 3 million employees and is worth around 10% of GDP deserve better. In this period of fear and anxiety for all of us, such a simple change will encourage an industry led solution hopefully unlocking refunds to those desperately in need and provides opportunities to the industry to resolve this without losing more income, customers, jobs etc.
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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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