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Thomas Cook sees rise in UK bookings
Thomas Cook has seen a marginal rise in bookings from the UK at the end of May.
The German-owned group said UK bookings were up 0.4% against the same period last year, with Germany showing a 6.2% rise and western Europe (Belgium, France and the Netherlands) up 1.2%.
Overall seasonal winter losses were reduced for the half-year ending April 30 by 13.4% to euro302.6 million with customer numbers up 1.2% to 3.3 million.
Thomas Cook UK saw winter passenger numbers decline by 2.2% but the company “still performed significantly better than the UK leisure market as a whole,” the group claimed.
The average holiday price paid across the group in winter was down 1.2% to euro590.
The group – 50-50 owned by Lufthansa and German stores groups KarstadtQuelle – said it expected to increase sales and earnings over the summer.
The company said: “As the positive trend in bookings has so far proven to be stable, Thomas Cook continues to be confident in increasing the number of customers at a rate above the market average, slightly increasing sales and, above all, due to cuts in structural costs, significantly improving earnings in the current financial year.”
Report by Phil Davies
Phil Davies
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