Rejected petition Make travel/airline companies give refunds if you don’t want to holiday in 2020

Make it compulsory that during the pandemic of covid19 if holidaymakers don’t want to travel they can have a full refund from the travel agent/airline provider or change the date of there holiday free of charge we personally are set to loose £4000 which has been saved for the past 2yrs

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People are hit hard already by covid19 and think given the choice the majority of holidaymakers would rather stay home and help build the economy in the uk aswell as try to get back on track with household bills. we personally are set to loose £4000 of our hard earned cash which has been saved for the past 2yrs because we don’t want to subject our children to the uncertainty of traveling and frightening sights of people all wearing masks as well as the wellbeing of us all

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Arrangements for refunding, changing or rebooking travel are a civil matter between individual travellers and holiday operators, not the Government or Parliament.

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: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/317878

Create a fund to reimburse money lost due to covid-19 travel cancellations: https://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
https://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: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://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: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

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Date submitted 10 June 2020
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