Holidays 2020: Simon Calder says flight costs could ‘increase by 50 percent’

“For the brave, maybe for the foolhardy, there will be plenty of bargains out there.”

Yet while bargain offers might kick start flights, they may not last long due to the amount of money the travel industry has lost during the lockdown period.

He concluded: “I think when things settle down we won’t see quite as many flights, we won’t see the same range of opportunities that we have now, and we will currently see higher prices because the only way the airlines can recoup the billions of dollars that they have been losing over the past few months is, of course, to push open prices, and they will do that by keeping a lid on capacity.”

Jet2 has become the latest airline to announce plans to resume services in July, selling flight to destinations including Spain, France, Greece, Turkey and Portugal.