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REDUNDANCIES.
Shareen highlights
job losses on ITV
Shareen Geers and
her three children.
The Swansea-based FORMER XL Leisure Group Caribbean product But she said: “The next day I suddenly had no
Caribbean specialist manager Shareen Geers appeared on ITV this job and I can’t find anything suitable to even
is struggling to find a week to highlight the plight of the 1,700 people apply for. I had to wake my kids up and tell them
job comparable to who lost their jobs. their mum has not got a job anymore.
her role at XL The single mother of three from Swansea “My daughter went to school and the head-
said she was struggling to find a job on master asked everyone to pray for the stranded
a par with her last one. holidaymakers, but my daughter had to remind
The 36-year-old told TTG that him of those who had lost their livelihoods.”
when XL ditched its Caribbean Geers appeared on an ITV1 programme called
programme (TTG August 29) she Credit Crunch on Monday night to highlight the
was told she would be rede- plight of the employees who lost their jobs.
ployed within the company. She now has to consider taking a job paying
And even the day before XL far less than her last one when she should be
collapsed, her boss told her not on holiday with her children – on an XL trip to
to worry. Barbados.
Monarch takes up
XL Caribbean slot
MONARCH Airlines has stepped in to help fill
the void in Caribbean flights left by XL Airways’
demise with a new year-round service to
Grenada and Tobago.
Specialist operator Golden Caribbean secured
the weekly flight following the collapse of XL
Leisure Group two weeks ago.
The company had been in talks with Monarch
since XL’s announcement in August that it
was scrapping its Caribbean programme (TTG
August 29).
The new service will use an Airbus A330.
It starts on December 17, in time for the busy
Christmas season, and will depart Gatwick every
Wednesday at 09.00.
Future Travel shifts conference
Future Travel, the homeworking division of The
Co-operative Travel, has moved its annual con-
ference to Manchester following the collapse of
XL. The event was due to take place in Tenerife
in October but will now be on November 12-13.
Sheena Darby, head of Future Travel, said: “Our
priority is to provide excellent customer service,
and to ensure our homeworkers are available
to their clients during these uncertain times.”
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