Goldtrail

[Colette]

Guys if any of you have booked with Goldtrail, please check there website for further information, as Goldtrail went into Administration this evening

Regards

Col

[reesy1959]

Oh not another one, thats awful.

But even worse, I was holding on to book a flight for Aug 4th with them.

Good luck to everyone who has booked with them, I hope you get everything sorted soon.

[reesy1959]

Will this have any effect on Aegean Flights? I think many of us have flights booked for next year with Aegean.

[mazz]

Just read the news on the travel weekly website:


Goldtrail Holidays fails with 16,000 overseas
Jul 16, 2010 19:00

Goldtrail Holidays has gone into administration with an estimated 16,000 people overseas.

CAA head of Atol licensing Andy Cohen confirmed the Turkey specialist had failed at about 18.00hrs on Friday evening, but said the authority was still "in the dark on detail".

"It went into administration only an hour ago and I came straight back into work," he told Travel Weekly. "We are requesting information as we speak."

Cohen said the failure was not on the scale of XL Leisure Group which collapsed in September 2008 leaving 60,000 holidaymakers overseas.

"We will be able to deal with this one in-house," he confirmed.

Speculation had been rife for some time that Goldtrail could be experiencing difficulties, but even Cohen, who only this month predicted a spate of failures this year, "particularly of operators to the Eastern Med", said the timing of company's demise had been "a shock for all of us".

[daviemc]

We booked flights through travel r******* to fly with onur air in three weeks time, The booking says they are acting as agents for Goldtrail and we have entered into a contract with Goldtrail. On the receipt the flight provider is Goldtrail so looks like we will be affected. Going to phone Travel R******* tomorrow and will post an update.

[Jozzyd]

My friends are coming to Icmeler with a Travel Agent but using Goldtrail, i hope they are covered and they paid with credit card

[Jozzyd]

Hope your hols are ok Davie

[daviemc]

Hope your hols are ok Davie

Thanks Jozzyd, will post after I've called them in the morning

[daviemc]

Looks like I will have to book flights again with another provider.


Edit> Sorry Dave but cant post that from another website as there may be copyrite rules

[john G]

We were looking forward to the 20th Aug for our holiday but this seems to have thrown a bloody big spanner in. We booked hotel and flights through Sunshine, flight supplier was Goldtrail - don't know where we stand until we get on the phone on sat/mon.

[Rew]

We were looking forward to the 20th Aug for our holiday but this seems to have thrown a bloody big spanner in. We booked hotel and flights through Sunshine, flight supplier was Goldtrail - don't know where we stand until we get on the phone on sat/mon.

Sunshine is a trading name of Hays Travel Ltd.

I will be very interested to now what they say about this. I know a lot of people who use them (Sunshine) because they know Hays has been going for years and is a locale company.

[sandybeach]

My friends have just had to pay out out £500 for flights with E*** J** as goldtrail have gone bust. They were due to fly out tomorrow. Sorry to everyone who has booked with Goldtrail and hope you get resolution .

Sandy

[reesy1959]

Here is a link on what to do next.

http://www.abta.com/consumer-services/what_to_do

[pat175]

My tickets came from gold trail going Tuesday 20th really worried now.

[kirky]

sad news for people who booked with them ,it always seems to happen in high season when flights are expensive

[cassia]

I have just woke up to this horrible news, i am flying on monday and i thought "PGT1416" was goldtrail i started crying i was so scared

Thank god mum just checked and it is pegasus, i only booked 2 days ago and i booked first with goldtrail then i swapped it for olympia.

I actually feel sick, i feel so sorry for all of these poor people who now have their holiday ruined i have no idea what the airport will be like on monday morning though :/ ?

[John V]

If you have booked flights directly with Aegean Flights who are linked to Holidays4U you should be all right but if you have booked a package holiday through Goldtrail using Aegean flights unfortunately you will be effected.

[curlysandra1960]

For those who have been affected by this company going bust there is information on the BBC website it does give a contact telephone number of who to call .. Hope this helps and so very sorry for those who are affected by all of this ..

[jayjay1950]

My heart stopped for a while then when i read this. I feel so sorry for the people who have booked with this firm, i hope everything goes ok for you.

[Rew]

Goldtrail customers can call the CAA on 0203 4410846 for the latest information about the collapsed company.

BBC