Eurostar cancels its dedicated ski services to France for 2020

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• Andrew says:

  19 Jul19 July 06:36

  Maybe I have a different offer or may maybe there’s an error in the article but my Clos19 offer is spend £150, get £25 back.

• gareth says:

  19 Jul19 July 06:44

  Financial services were key workers from the start just people choose too hate them so were generally ignored as being key!

  • gareth says:

    19 Jul19 July 06:45

    To*

  • Longing for a break says:

    19 Jul19 July 07:06

    Yep, easy targets.
    Covid loans, payment holidays etc etc… a lot of people in Financial Services (especially in IT) have never worked such long hours or so hard…!

• Christopher says:

  19 Jul19 July 07:04

  I rather suspect they’re referring to those who man the branches and customer support services plus those supporting online banking and business lending etc.

  In any case, the whole ‘key worker’ concept needs to be set in some context and timescale.

  For example, are supermarket IT support teams who look after distribution and replenishment as key as the delivery drivers? Of course they are, but they won’t get reflected as key workers.

  • pauldb says:

    19 Jul19 July 09:46

    The listing is actually quite detailed but open to broad interpretation. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision

    It’s not all financial services workers: “ staff needed for essential financial services provision (including but not limited to workers in banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure)”.

    Your supermarket IT example doesn’t really work. They clearly are classed as critical as they work in food distribution, sale and delivery.

• PaulC says:

  19 Jul19 July 07:20

  As you have to be a HHonors member to get the ‘Frontline Thanks’ rate, the discount isn’t exactly the 25% off the ‘standard rate’ (which is for non members).

  For example, the rate at Brighton Metropole for dates I have already booked later this month is £81 standard or £72 for Honors members and £68 for Frontline Thanks.

• The Savage Squirrel says:

  19 Jul19 July 07:41

  As there’s no definitive list of what constitutes a key worker, or, for many, any official ID to prove the status, and overseas hotels are certainly not going to understand the concept, it will be interesting to see how this is enforced or checked :D. There will either be zero enforcement (most likely) or some horror stories.

  • Anna says:

    19 Jul19 July 09:00

    I used the public sector rate once and wasn’t asked for ID.

• Yvo says:

  19 Jul19 July 07:42

  I work in financial services and was initially baffled by the “keyworker” label, able to work from home with no risk of exposure and initially didn’t send my daughter to school under the eligibility. It could only be a breeze, surely?
  Within the first fortnight of lockdown I got sciatica from working long hours and not moving at all from my desk, we were so busy restructuring debt and working through entirely new systems to help keep businesses going, arrange repayment holidays and counsel long standing clients who overnight had zero revenue.
  I can only speak for myself but it certainly felt like essential work.

  • Harry T says:

    19 Jul19 July 12:11

    Thank you for your hard work, sincerely.

  • jil says:

    19 Jul19 July 22:08

    I work for a bank, I was asked to come to the office everyday sicne lockdown day1.

• Kevin says:

  19 Jul19 July 07:52

  Be careful with the Hilton offer. When you click through some state for ’medical and military only’.

  If you use ’quick book’ rather than look at the rates, you will miss this.

  • Gareth says:

    19 Jul19 July 08:03

    Scroll to bottom of page it quotes as per Robs article above for roles

• Qrfan says:

  19 Jul19 July 08:04

  The Eurostar ski service suspension was announced over a week ago wasn’t it? Anything extra in this announcement I’m missing?

  • Rob says:

    19 Jul19 July 09:32

    No 🙂 Hadn’t had a spare slot before today.

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