A boys’ holiday ended in disappointment when they arrived at the airport to find no record of their booking.


Edgware student Chris Kenny and 13 of his friends were looking forward to spending ten days on the Greek island of Kavos.


But their excitement turned to shock and anger when they arrived at Gatwick Airport for their 6am flight – only to be told there was no trace of their reservation.


They spent six months saving up for the £400 trip, which they thought they were booking via Jetline Travel, in High Street, Barnet.


When contacted by the Times Series, a representative who works for Jetline Travel, said: “We are victims of this as well.


“We didn’t receive any money for these bookings at all – it has been reported to the police and is going through the courts.”


Police have since arrested a 37-year-old man on suspicion of fraud.


Mr Kenny, 20, said: “We hired a minibus to get us to the airport and everyone was in a good mood, there was a buzz.


“But when the check-in clerk told us there was a problem we were a bit confused. We didn’t really know what to do. We were mainly in shock – it was bad.


“We hung around at the airport for an hour-and-a-half but realised there was no point. We were all pretty devastated.


“It was horrible. Everyone was thinking about all that money we spent.


“We still have not had a penny of it back and we are very angry about it.


“On the way back in the taxi it was deadly silent – that was horrible.”


They spent another £45 on taxis to take them back home.


The next day, they reported the matter to the police and the Citizens Advice Bureau.


The group booked another holiday to Kavos, but only half of them were able to get new dates off work and all had to borrow money from their parents to afford the new trip.


Birmingham University student Chris, who is studying English, added: “It wasn’t quite the same – it was a bit of an anti-climax because the holiday was not the big boy’s trip it was meant to be.”


Plumber Michael Lyons, 20, said: “I felt like I should give up on it all really. To spend all that money on a holiday and find there was no booking made me feel like we’d been taken for idiots.


“It was meant to be my first holiday with the boy’s ever but it was ruined.”


Sean Gartlan, 19, who lives in Kingsbury and is studying economics and maths at Liverpool University, said: “It was a bit shocking, a bit upsetting. We were all devastated.


“I’d had a Saturday job for a whole year beforehand on a building site while doing A-levels to earn money for Kavos. It was disappointing.


“We were a bit naïve.”