and the smaller island of evia, though officials say the situation on those islands isn t as severe. at least 21,000 people have had to be evacuated from the islands over the past few days, including many tourists. the emergency comes during the peak of the summer holiday season. the foreign office has sent staff to rhodes to assist british people who are already there. it is urging anyone due to travel to affected areas to contact their travel operator. emma brennan from abta which represents uk travel agents joins us now from east london. what is the advice for people planning to travel to rhodes? if you are due to travel planning to travel to rhodes? if you are due to travel to planning to travel to rhodes? if you are due to travel to rhodes, - planning to travel to rhodes? if gm. are due to travel to rhodes, check with your travel provider to understand hat if w with your travel provider to understand hsati w with your travel provider to understand hastihnappeing with with y
but letting people change bookings over the rest of the week. british airways is letting customers due to visit rhodes or corfu in the next week postpone. if you can still travel but no longer want to, there s no automatic right to a refund. the best thing to do is to get in touch with your tour operator and i appreciate that may be difficult. they are likely to be very busy at the moment and see what your options are. in most cases, there will be some options there to rebook or claim a refund. if not, if you can t do that, if you re not booked with a package, then look to travel insurance. contact your provider if you have taken it out and see what they might be able to do for you. the uk government still isn t advising against travel to greece. it is saying if you re planning to travel to areas which are affected by wildfires, you should check with your travel operator or hotel before travelling. this is still a fast moving situation. sophie.
and now corfu as well, british holiday makers have been returning home. passengers who landed at birmingham airport this morning were clearly relieved to be back. you think, gosh, we have been put through this situation, you empathise with people who have had it worse and have literally had to be rescued by boats. because the flames were getting to them. said to the kids, flames were getting to them. said to the kids. get flames were getting to them. said to the kids, get anything, flames were getting to them. said to the kids, get anything, flannel, - the kids, get anything, flannel, ust the kids, get anything, flannel, just get the kids, get anything, flannel, just get on the rocks and stay near the waten just get on the rocks and stay near the water. we just get on the rocks and stay near the water. ~ , ., ., the water. we were ust moved from our resort the water. we were just moved from our resort to another the water. we were just moved from our resort to another resort
two o clock. with easyjet. so obviously yesterday when we saw the news, we try to find out what was going on. our travel operator was helpful and she was trying to find out details. i m the problem arose with easyjet because whereas other airlines have cancelled their flights, easyjet was saying they could not cancel them because people still needed to go out to rhodes which i could not understand. and i think it has to do with what you mentioned before, the government having to say that they advise against travel. because otherwise, the airlines will be liable, they will not refund people. so we were sort of left in a situation where we made the decision long ago, to not go out there. i even got in touch