TUI Airways: Tour operator model is not dead
TUI Airways believes the tour operator model is still relevant, despite the failure of UK rival Thomas Cook, but this relevance rests on digitalisation, diversification and adapting to customer needs. Dawn Wilson became TUI Airways MD in Jan 2019. In addition, Wilson is also director of airline operations for all 5 TUI Group airlines in Europe. She said that next summer TUI will add 2m leisure destination seats to and from the UK to fill the void created by Thomas Cook’s collapse. This represents “significant” capacity growth for TUI’s UK airline. “We have to take the opportunity to grow our own business. That’s going to be very much in the [UK] regions, replicating some of those areas Thomas Cook was flying out of and some of those routes they were flying on,” Wilson said. <br/>
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TUI Airways: Tour operator model is not dead
TUI Airways believes the tour operator model is still relevant, despite the failure of UK rival Thomas Cook, but this relevance rests on digitalisation, diversification and adapting to customer needs. Dawn Wilson became TUI Airways MD in Jan 2019. In addition, Wilson is also director of airline operations for all 5 TUI Group airlines in Europe. She said that next summer TUI will add 2m leisure destination seats to and from the UK to fill the void created by Thomas Cook’s collapse. This represents “significant” capacity growth for TUI’s UK airline. “We have to take the opportunity to grow our own business. That’s going to be very much in the [UK] regions, replicating some of those areas Thomas Cook was flying out of and some of those routes they were flying on,” Wilson said. <br/>
