Travel Company TUI has revealed details of its plans to re-start summer holidays with a limited programme when the Government travel advice changes.

It says it is ready to take Brits on holiday again to eight destinations in Greece, the Balearics and the Canaries from three UK airports from 11th July in the first phase of its’ restart operations.

In phase one of the planned restart, from 11-24 July, up to 8,300 holidaymakers could travel on up to 44 flights per week to Ibiza, Palma, Corfu, Crete, Kos, Rhodes, Lanzarote and Tenerife. TUI plans to add more flights and destinations by the end of July to offer a total of 19 destinations from five UK airports, subject to Government advice.

To prepare for the restart, TUI has already implemented a range of new health and safety measures to protect both customers and employees. Key measures include mandatory face masks on board, extra cleaning and disinfecting of aircraft, state-of-the art hospital standard air filtering systems to keep fresh air flowing through the cabin every few minutes.

Customers will be advised to remain seated as much as possible with cabin crew managing bathroom queues and hand sanitiser sachets available to customers on board

There will be hand sanitising stations set up throughout hotels, social distancing markers on the floor,restaurants may have fewer tables and will stay open for longer.

In many properties, table service will replace self-service dining,resort facilities, like sports courts, may be open for longer than normal to allow for social distancing and sun loungers at pools and beaches will be disinfected between each new guest

Andrew Flintham, Managing Director of TUI UK & Ireland said:

“We’re really excited to be talking about taking people on holiday again. We’re of course still waiting on the Government to change its travel advice but we’ve been working really hard behind the scenes and we’re ready to start taking holidaymakers away again in just a few weeks’ time. Initially, we are focussing on destinations where we anticipate air bridges being in place, such as Greece and Spain.    But we know many Brits are eager to travel again, and we have ambitious plans to rapidly increase our programme as soon as possible, to offer even more choice when it comes to holidaying this summer.

We appreciate that some people may be feeling apprehensive towards travel and have questions about what a post-covid holiday will be like, which is why we’ve introduced our new TUI Holiday Promise. It provides holidaymakers with five guarantees we’ve made to keep them safe abroad, while reassuring them that we’re still providing relaxing and enjoyable holidays.  If a destination has a quarantine in place, we won’t go there. If local restrictions or measures in place at hotels or resorts significantly impact the original holiday experience you booked, we won’t take you there.

We’ll apply every possible health and safety measure to keep our customers and staff safe and protected at every single stage of their journey.  We’ll also make sure we keep in touch and are as flexible as we can be if people need to amend their holidays”.

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