Jeremy Lefroy
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Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford) (Con)
Is there any way the disgraceful hiking of prices—often double or triple—by other providers can be looked at under competition regulation?
Grant Shapps
My hon. Friend will be interested to hear that I put those questions to the CAA just yesterday, and asked it to investigate for me. The CAA believes that automatic pricing kicked in and was then quickly overridden. I mentioned in my statement that some airlines have done the opposite—Easyjet actually cut its prices by 15% for Thomas Cook passengers—and I am grateful to them and to the airlines that have lent their aircraft.