Hundreds of jobs to go as Thomas Cook closes offices

Thomas Cook might attract more business if it actually ensured it provided ALL the facilities and comforts it promises in its adverts. If it also dealt more promptly and sympathetically with genuine complaints, got some decent aircraft and some holiday reps who actually knew what they were doing and were really helpful people might use them more. perhaps I am being unkind as my experiences stem from just two holidays I had with them and a few of the experiences of family and friends. Lol, don't think so!

I am fraid unless the British people change their attitude it will not be too long before they have rude awakening. The nation will be like the top of a rock. The very words the Bible used to describe what will happen to Britain at the end time.

In Britain we have seen the same thing as I mentioned below. In her book When Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand laid out the whole scenjario. As unions made more demands and the socialist state made ever more taxes, rules and regulations our ship building, enginnering, steel including call centres moved off shore. The same happened in America. The socialists and union seem to think that the business is about the staff similar to what we see in schools. In fact the staff are their to ensure that clients are happy and the business can continue. Rudeness and of handedness will certainly stop me from dealing with a business. I vote with my feet. As a consequence if you want to know where our once big ship building sector is it probably South Korea. Well done socialists. You have turned the north into a Jobs desert. Now work on the banks until they relocate.

Instead of unions being confrontational, knowing what is going on in their industry, surely they could make suggestions instead of demands.
It has always surpised me to see unions go on strike when the company is struggling.
In South Africa it was the worst unions in the world who trained the Africans.
They arrived at the companies offices demanding up to 20% increase. When it was pointed out that the company wasn't makling as much as they were demanding and they knew it as they had a copy of the balance sheet. They turned on the owner/Manager and said, "Whitey you sort it out"
Many owners realising they were on a hiding to nowhere did. It was either go out of business or do something drastic. In one instance the owner and his family relocated over weekend by putting all the equipment on ships for other counteries. When pickets returned on Monday Morning the factory was empty. A desperate call from the Union asking what had happened to machines and equipment resulted. The Owner said ' you told me to sort it out and I have,Bye'. In this case the owner flew off to Canada and a new life..

Does anyone book package tours/holidays any more? So much cheaper just to do it yourself and more exciting..

Another company collapse and more on the way,anyway why not send for the Poles and eastern europeans,and the government can make money by selling there visas to them as they do now.British workers are not wanted anymore,well at least not on a full time basis.The ones left in jobs will soon be part time,then they can reduce there mortgages and rents to part time rents,its a buzz but its geting worse and worse and worse,reality is hiting home now,and its going to get much worse than it is now,I wonder which company is going next give it a week a new collapse is not far away.RIP

it wont be long before we are all out of work in england ,and then we will all be fighting one another in the rain.

Thomas Cook holidays are usually a rip off and don't represent value for money nowadays.

isn"t it great with all these problems COE JOWELL LIVINGSTONE and co decided to give these already in debt jokers the OLYMPIC TICKET AND HOTEL PACKAGES which have failed so badly in sales, to the extent a bank loaned them a further £ 200 million a couple of months ago, The goverment and OLYMPIC committee have not been paid for the packages they have sold and never will be because for sure withing weeks of the olympics FINISHING they will go into administration, And the Goverment plus the BOC will be knocked for there money. The reason GREED they got so GREEDY
they thought they would become the ticket touts they so oppose, just like the theatres with there premimun tickets and the football clubs with there vastly overpriced package tickets plus season tickets, Also through the MUSIC PROMOTERS IN THE MIX WITH THEM there suffering with there overpriced festival tickets let alone the amount of festivals on each summer, in awfull weather