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'Bully boy' bonding

30th March 1985, Page 22
30th March 1985
Page 22
Page 22, 30th March 1985 — 'Bully boy' bonding
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TRAVEL agents' demands that coach operators join their bonding scheme have been dismissed angrily as "bully boy" tactics by Bus and Coach Council director-general Denis Quin.

Association of British Travel Agents (Abta) tour operators' chairman Jack Smith was quoted in Travel Trade Gazette as saying that Abta would insist that Bus and Coach Council members became members of the Abta bonding scheme.

Fifty BCC member companies are in its bonding scheme, which requires an absolute minimum bond of 10 per cent and sometimes insists on more. No BCC company in the scheme has gone out of business, so far.

BCC points out that the Abta scheme has a 7.5 per cent minimum bond and this offers a less superior bonding.

Mr Quin hit back at the Abta statement, saying it represented "no more than self-interest under the guise of consumer protection'.