RE: 2020 Geneva motor show cancelled

[Gweeds]

Exhibitors won't be compensated - the government decision allows them to use force majeure. Ouch.

[Dave Hedgehog]

Gitwhoismiserable said:

motor show's are dead anyway

but how will i get news of this years 30+ new 3 tonne SUVs that get 15mpg???

[ukaskew]

Surely this is just the start. It's hard not to see this sort of policy rolling out across any global event in the next couple of months if things don't significantly improve.

[BigChiefmuffinAgain]

Sad but right thing to do.

For a lot of small manufacturers, for whom this is their big event, it is going to hurt...

[GTEYE]

JackReacher said:

Does anyone know the policy of recovering flight costs with BA? Was due to visit next week.

I'm assuming I just have to suck it up since it isn't BA cancelling their flight. Is travel insurance likely to cover me?

I don't think you be able to claim for any of it, unless you had booked a package trip with the whole lot bundled (unlikely).

It's sad that its been cancelled, but I'm not so surprised.

Frankfurt was a shadow of it's former self last year, too many no shows and manufacturers that seemed to be embarrassed to promote anything that wasn't an EV.

[Cold]

JackReacher said:

Does anyone know the policy of recovering flight costs with BA? Was due to visit next week.

I'm assuming I just have to suck it up since it isn't BA cancelling their flight. Is travel insurance likely to cover me?

Unlikely BA will want to help, Your flight is still going ahead (as is mine) it's just the reason for your trip has been binned, but this isn't BA's fault.

[Gitwhoismiserable]

Dave Hedgehog said:

but how will i get news of this years 30+ new 3 tonne SUVs that get 15mpg???

Pistonheads

[JackReacher]

Cold said:

Unlikely BA will want to help, Your flight is still going ahead (as is mine) it's just the reason for your trip has been binned, but this isn't BA's fault.

Yep think you're right, went ahead and cancelled, recovered 30% of the ticket price so better than nothing. The airlines are going to get really hit by this.

[ogrodz]

Cold said:

JackReacher said:

Does anyone know the policy of recovering flight costs with BA? Was due to visit next week.

I'm assuming I just have to suck it up since it isn't BA cancelling their flight. Is travel insurance likely to cover me?

Unlikely BA will want to help, Your flight is still going ahead (as is mine) it's just the reason for your trip has been binned, but this isn't BA's fault.

Hmmmm, actually I think the spread of any virus is more likely to occur on planes arriving and departing from the event...

[redroadster]

Unless they are stopping all travel into Switzerland then how is this going to stop spread of virus ? .

[SuperPav]

redroadster said:

Unless they are stopping all travel into Switzerland then how is this going to stop spread of virus ? .

Well for starters, a gathering where you're quite often walking in a crowd of hundreds of people (literally rubbing shoulders), and then getting in and out of car interiors and touching all the surfaces that others touch/cough/sneeze on, I think is actually one of the most prime ways of spreading a virus you can think of.

Even if everyone going to the motor show still went to Geneva, but just stayed in the hotel/city, the risk of spread would be much smaller.

[Rick101]

Unless you're particularly vulnerable, just go.

Lovely city and great window shopping.

[cptsideways]

It was inevitable & there will be many more like it.


Youtube will be be the new motorshow (it pretty much is anyway) not that anyone is going to have a job to fund their shiny new car on PCP by the time the cars come out.

Just so long as I can still buy a Caterham 7 & an old Landcruiser I'll be happy.

[Gitwhoismiserable]

cptsideways said:

It was inevitable & there will be many more like it.


Youtube will be be the new motorshow (it pretty much is anyway) not that anyone is going to have a job to fund their shiny new car on PCP by the time the cars come out.

Just so long as I can still buy a Caterham 7 & an old Landcruiser I'll be happy.

Just so long as I can still buy an aventador SVJ and an old Cullinan I’m with you there

[Cold]

Rick101 said:

Unless you're particularly vulnerable, just go.

Lovely city and great window shopping.

Must admit, I'm thinking along those lines. Hotel/train/plane tickets are booked and paid for so it could still be a nice day out.

It's about time I went there and actually got further than Palexpo. It's only about 3.5 miles to the lake and by the time I've strolled there it'll be time for lunch. A mooch about with my camera then a taxi back to the airport.

[Unsorted]

Unless you have been behind the scenes as they set up the Geneva show, you probably would not realise how big a gig this is. Going to cost a fortune and not just for the visitors and manufacturers.

I was involved in helping with one display on one stand. Cost 60K plus and kept three small businesses and two local tradesman going for three weeks. Dread to think how much the two storey stand cost. Then there are the electricians, cleaners, carpenters and painters who would have been working up to the the last few minutes until the show opened. Presumably they have been laid off. Then there are the apparel sellers on the stand who have geared up for a show that won't happen. Hotels, transport companies. The show had a car park full of expensive car transporters.

Understand why it has happened, but the pain will be spread way beyond visitors and the manufacturers.

Edited by Unsorted on Friday 28th February 13:48

[Steamer]

blearyeyedboy said:

PH: Where arguments over international emergencies become fights over syntax and grammar in fewer than 10 posts.

Cough cough

[nunpuncher]

With the amount of chassis and drive train sharing that goes on they could just reduce this down to a small room with 1 car in it and we can just imagine it with different badges on.

[ajap1979]

The Olympics next?

[AndrewD]

Cold said:

Must admit, I'm thinking along those lines. Hotel/train/plane tickets are booked and paid for so it could still be a nice day out.

It's about time I went there and actually got further than Palexpo. It's only about 3.5 miles to the lake and by the time I've strolled there it'll be time for lunch. A mooch about with my camera then a taxi back to the airport.

I wouldn’t bother with a stroll from the airport/Palexpo to the centre - it’s not exactly picturesque and the trains are frequent and take 7 minutes.

My office is in central Geneva and I am there most weeks. The central area by the station is not exactly beautiful. Better if you go to the lake and cross to the other side I guess.