8 Mar, 2020 @ 19:28
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COVID-19: German airline cancels flights to Spain’s Mallorca for Holy Week in HUGE blow to tourism as Ryanair ‘hikes up prices’

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GERMAN airline Lauda has begun cancelling flights scheduled to Mallorca this easter due to Coronavirus fears. 

“All affected customers have been notified by email and SMS and will be given the option to request a refund or rebook their trip,” a spokesman said.

“Due to the Covid-19 virus, Lauda is forced to cancel a series of short-haul flights for a period of three weeks, from March 18 to April 8,” Lauda said on its website on Sunday.

Meanwhile, replacement flights with Ryanair are being hiked up to take advantage, clients have claimed.

That’s according to German tourist Stefan Boscher, who told Diario Mallorca his two-week holiday in Easter was now up in the air.

Flights for he and his wife and two children would now cost €500 more.

More to follow…

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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