How soon would u get on a plane?

I ain't gettin' on no plane until there's a vaccine.

 

Thought I'd go all Nudger

 

Was meant to be heading over to see Mede Tete in a few weeks I’m relatively sunn Russia. As it stands I can’t see me using air travel for a minimum of 12 months.

 

But in answer to my own query, as soon as it's allowed on both sides of the trip without lengthy quarantine, Greece are only currently doing 24hrs whilst u wait for the results of a test taken the moment u land, I will be on a plane somewhere!

 

Sacking off this summer, hopefully next summer.
I wouldn’t travel on a plane with a mask on, that’s not a holiday for me

 

You forgot "fool"!

 

Just chalked sh.it on our Croatia trip in 4 weeks and moving the dates to next year. But I am not ruling anything out, the picture could well look a lot different in a few months and we have to start living life again at some point. If things look amenable to it, i would book a short notice break around September time.

Getting insurance is likely to be the biggest issue though. Its not worth the risk if you can't. I am just waiting for the first news article about some idiot on holiday in Turkey or wherever pleading for help to get home because they flew out with no insurance unaware they were incubating covid and ended up with a hospital stay abroad and a bankrupt inducing hospital bill.

 

I’m majorly caught between a rock and hard place!!! I owe the balance on mine this week but I’m £1500 deep already!! We go (supposedly) to Ibiza late July and the Spanish prime minister has said all tourists are welcome from July 1st so Christ knows what I do???? Personally I hope it gets cancelled

 

I’d fly today if I didn’t have to quarantine when I got back

 

My step daughter is in an identical position. If you know for certain you dont fancy it now this year, even if (as it quite likely), the holiday company are flying again by then, then you do whatever route loses you least money. That is either

a. to default, they cancel your holiday and you lose the value of the non refundable element of the deposit.

Or

b. Pay the balance and sit tight and wait. You may get lucky and they still cancel, in which case you can either get your money back in full (eventually), or move the dates free of any amendment fee. You may even get an extra credit on top to incentivise you not to request an immediate refund, which is what TUI are offering (20%). Worst case, they don't cancel, so you make the decision to change dates and have to stand the cost of the amendment fee.

Which is cheapest, the loss of deposit or the amendment fee if you have to pay it? Personally, I'd pay the balance and then wait. Amendment fees are typically around £50 per person.

Who are you going with? TUI are offering free amendments now for holidays starting before 31 August. So pay the balance and then move the dates.

 

Whilst we have made the decision that we wont be going, we haven't moved our dates yet with TUI. We are holding out to the end of the month to see if they cancel and then they will offer an extra 20% credit. I suspect more and more that they wont now though.

I reckon there is a fair chance that some of us that move the dates to next year will end up claiming the money back from the government via ATOL when they go bust. Can't see the holiday companies getting through this without some casualties.

 

To make it an even harder decision too we’re going with another family who paid there balance off a few weeks ago, it’s Jet2 who were going with.

 

I'm not looking to fly anytime this year.

 

A quick scan on their website tells me (don't take my word for it)

They have cancelled up to 17 June. They are only offering fee free changes for holidays up to this date.

This means if you dont want to go in July, there is going to be a cost somewhere. Unless a second wave causes a new lockdown, you can assume they will be doing everything they can to get the flight on.

Cancellation fees from 57-69 days before departure are 30% of the cost.

Change of date fees are £40 per person.

Almost certainly, your best bet is to pay the balance off, then look to change the dates, probably as soon as possible as the fees go up the closer you get to the flight date. Within 56 days, they are £50 per person. Within 28 days it is £75 per person.

 

Never been on a plane and don,t intend doing either.

 

Ever? Why?

 

Im booked for Albuifiera (spelling?) early October, I’m a lot more confident about that going ahead then the Benidorm holiday I have booked in September.