![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/tui-looks-to-restart-rhodes-flights-and-holidays-this-week-to-parts-of-the-greek-island/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_TOPSHOT-GREECE-WEATHER-ENVIRONMENT-CLIMATE-WILDFIRE-1.jpg&description=TUI is set to resume flights and holidays to Rhodes this week after the wildfires no longer appear to be running out of control on the Greek island Most flights to the stricken island of Rhodes are to return this Saturday. Desperate hotel bosses and workers on the Greek island said they are 'praying' everyone's summer will be saved at the weekend. Winds and temperatures have now dropped below 40c and the Greece wildfires no longer appear to be running out-of-control. Resources are now being concentrated on the largest blaze in the south east of the island. Yesterday workers were busy putting up new wooden telegraph poles after the fire ravaged the network. Electricity had been restored to many areas but some villages were still in the dark. A TUI UK&I Spokesperson said: 'Our teams in Rhodes have been working tirelessly to support customers impacted by the wildfires in south-eastern parts of the island. We're continuing to monitor the situation and have made some changes to our holiday programme in the coming days. We'd like to reassure customers their health and safety is our top priority. Scheduled return flights from Rhodes to the UK will continue to operate as planned." They said on: 'Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th July – our holiday programme to the North of Rhodes, where hotels and resorts are fully operational, will resume. Any customers who would prefer to amend to another available holiday can do so or they can cancel with a full refund.' "Up to and including Friday 11th August – Whilst a number of hotels in the South of the island are open, TUI is offering customers travelling on a package holiday to a hotel in the south of the island the option to rebook or amend their holiday, or cancel with a full refund. Our teams will be contacting these customers to discuss their preferred options, including anyone who's booked on a non-TUI flight." TUI had previously cancelled all outbound flights to Rhodes up to and including Friday 28 July, and has cancelled some ho){kind=link}
TUI is set to resume flights and holidays to Rhodes this week after the wildfires no longer appear to be running out of control on the Greek island
Most flights to the stricken island of Rhodes are to return this Saturday. Desperate hotel bosses and workers on the Greek island said they are “praying” everyone’s summer will be saved at the weekend. Winds and temperatures have now dropped below 40c and the Greece wildfires no longer appear to be running out-of-control. Resources are now being concentrated on the largest blaze in the south east of the island.
Yesterday workers were busy putting up new wooden telegraph poles after the fire ravaged the network. Electricity had been restored to many areas but some villages were still in the dark.
A TUI UK&I Spokesperson said: “Our teams in Rhodes have been working tirelessly to support customers impacted by the wildfires in south-eastern parts of the island. We’re continuing to monitor the situation and have made some changes to our holiday programme in the coming days. We’d like to reassure customers their health and safety is our top priority. Scheduled return flights from Rhodes to the UK will continue to operate as planned.”
They said on: “Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th July â our holiday programme to the North of Rhodes, where hotels and resorts are fully operational, will resume. Any customers who would prefer to amend to another available holiday can do so or they can cancel with a full refund.”