By CAROLINE WILSON

HOLIDAYMAKERS flying to Greece from Glasgow showed little concern that the country’s financial troubles would impact on their sunshine break.

Stuart Mainland, from Helensburgh, and his partner Debbie Atkinson, were flying out to Heraklion in Crete yesterday afternoon on the 3.30pm Thomson Airways flight.

The couple were travelling for a week with their children Jenny, 13, Sam, 11 and nine-year-old Jack.

Stuart said: “We’ve brought out own euros and we are all inclusive so we aren’t worried.

“It’s not dangerous.

“All we want to do is lie by the pool and that doesn’t cost anything.”

Stuart’s fiance Jenny said: “As long as they don’t run out of food it should be fine.

“When we booked the travel company said the people will actually look after you more. They don’t want to lose tourism.

“We were told as a tourist you can take more money out. They want you to take it out and spend it there.

“I was also told there is extra security because people are carrying more money about.”

Two flights bound for Heraklion filled with passengers and another bound for the Greek island of Kos left the airport yesterday afternoon.

Marie Claire Erla, 29, from Glasgow said her father Eric had just returned from Corfu and had not experienced any problems.

She said: “He had no problems at all. He was raving about it. As soon as he came back he re-booked.

“I think there might be more issues in the bigger cities.”

However, one holiday company had slashed the cost of holidays to Greece yesterday, a sign that some tourists are nervous about choosing the country for their sunshine break.

Sunvil holidays was offering a 30% discount on last minute breaks to the Greek islands and encouraging holidaymakers to support the country’s tourist trade.

The advert said: “Life goes on as normal in Greece’s welcoming resorts. Go to Greece now and support the local people at the same time.”

The company was also offering to make emergency cash available to tourists at its local offices.

They were advising tourists that while ATMs are still stocked and dispensing cash, travellers should follow Foreign Office advice and take enough euros to cover the duration of their trip.

For customers covered by the firm’s travel insurance policy, the limit for carrying cash has been doubled to £500 per person for those travelling to Greece in July.

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras was last night heading to Brussels for an emergency meeting of eurozone leaders, where he will try to use the referendum victory to eke out concessions from European creditors over a bailout for the crisis-ridden country.

Mr Tsipras is set to reveal fresh proposals to creditors that he hopes will kick-start negotiations.

Greece, after years of crippling recession and spiralling unemployment, has already been granted 240 billion euros (£170 billion) in loans from other eurozone countries