May 13th - Today, Simon Calder, travel correspondent with The Independent, discusses the plan by On the Beach to “minimise the number of holidays that need to be rearranged or refunded”. Its plan: ”We have stopped selling summer holidays for 2021," says the major online travel agent.Travel firms have been warned ‘to respect the refund rights of holidaymakers’ by Competition and Markets Authority. So what tricks have they been up to?And in the wake of news of a possible direct ferry service from UK to Porto in Portugal, what other sea links could be brought back?Sign up to Simon's free weekly news letter at independent.co.uk/newsletter and all the very latest is available 24hrs a day at independent.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.