I'm astounded that in the present Court case Caa V Travel republic , it has been announced that the T-Atol offered by The Travel Trust Association is " unlawful"
Stratford Magistrates Court was told the Civil Aviation Authority had been advising companies with a T-Atol that it had been recognised as unlawful since January this year.As a TTA member who holds a T-Atol, we have had no such communication from the CAA advising us of this to date.
The TTA states the previous fixed term contract between the CAA and TTA expired by mutual agreement at the beginning of May 2009. Again as a TTA member, we have never been informed of this, although today we are informed plans are being discussed and drawn up, and letters of comfort provided in order to keep protection under T-Atols for TTA members and customers.
If the CAA have been advising that this T-Atol scheme is unlawful, is it not unlawful of them to Accept our Re-newel application in June this, year , Accept our Re-newel Cheque of £500.00 and then for them to say our application has been accepted and a new Certificate would be issued in October.
Our present license expired on 30 September and we have yet to have been issued our new certificate covering us from 01st October for 2009/2010 ( Which we paid for in June!)
So are we covered or Not! It's no wonder the Travel Package regulations are in such a mess.