More No-frills air tickets booked by travel agents

Travel Daily News
report that: "Fifty per cent more package holidaymakers are booking no-frills flights through travel agents than in 2002 , the 2004 Holiday Survey by MORI for ABTA has found" for most "financial protection is not in place... Current consumer protection covers customers who have either: booked through an `ATOL` holder, used a credit card and paid more than £100, or taken out insurance through a travel agent.

Thirty-two per cent of package holidaymakers told researchers that they had taken at least one no-frills flight in the last 12 months and of these, 21% had booked them with their travel agent."