Summer holidays 2020

[anonymous-user]

Greenmantle said:

lost in espace said:

Attempts to fly to Ibiza in August and Tenerife last week thwarted, Tenerife booked for Feb fingers crossed.

what was the issue with Tenerife? As mentioned in another thread there seems to be no checks on "essential travel" at the airport?

Presumably it’s the current ban on non essential foreign travel?



https://www.gov.uk/guidance/travel-advice-novel-co...

Either lost in espace doesn’t want to risk a fine (or whatever happens if you break the rules) or just doesn’t want to break the rules. There might be other implications on things like insurance also if you’re travelling when there’s a ban on holiday travel.

Assuming of course that it was holiday travel and the ban that made lost in espace cancel his plans. “Last week”

[kiethton]

Idly looking at a break over the Xmas period, is it me or has the cost of flights, to pretty much everywhere warm (so long-haul), tripled yoy?

[LuS1fer]

kiethton said:

Idly looking at a break over the Xmas period, is it me or has the cost of flights, to pretty much everywhere warm (so long-haul), tripled yoy?

Well RyanAir were pinging my phone with a £5 flight sale this morning but I haver no idea to where.

[djc206]

kiethton said:

Idly looking at a break over the Xmas period, is it me or has the cost of flights, to pretty much everywhere warm (so long-haul), tripled yoy?

Yep. People taking advantage of the potential window between current totally counterproductive travel ban and the rumoured lockdown in January that’s been proposed so we all get 5 days with relatives we fking despise eating dry poultry and drinking old people drinks.

I’d still love to know why you’d stop people going to countries with no covid and keep them here where they can catch and spread it!

[jamoor]

kiethton said:

Idly looking at a break over the Xmas period, is it me or has the cost of flights, to pretty much everywhere warm (so long-haul), tripled yoy?

I'd guess supply is restricted.

[croyde]

djc206 said:

so we all get 5 days with relatives we fking despise eating dry poultry and drinking old people drinks.

You sir, have just summed up Christmas

[Dan_1981]

Dublin....


Meant to be going 12th Dec - (rescheduled three times now)

Looks like travel will be allowed but from what I can see - anyone arriving in the Republic has to quarantine for 14 days.... which kinda of makes the short weekend trip pointless

Flights won't be cancelled by the looks of things... so what are the options?

We have insurance so I assume we will end up claiming through that.

[djc206]

Dan_1981 said:

Dublin....


Meant to be going 12th Dec - (rescheduled three times now)

Looks like travel will be allowed but from what I can see - anyone arriving in the Republic has to quarantine for 14 days.... which kinda of makes the short weekend trip pointless

Flights won't be cancelled by the looks of things... so what are the options?

We have insurance so I assume we will end up claiming through that.

Who are the flights booked with?

[Dan_1981]

djc206 said:

Dan_1981 said:

Dublin....


Meant to be going 12th Dec - (rescheduled three times now)

Looks like travel will be allowed but from what I can see - anyone arriving in the Republic has to quarantine for 14 days.... which kinda of makes the short weekend trip pointless

Flights won't be cancelled by the looks of things... so what are the options?

We have insurance so I assume we will end up claiming through that.

Who are the flights booked with?

Sigh.... Ryan Air

[PF62]

Dan_1981 said:

Dublin....


Meant to be going 12th Dec - (rescheduled three times now)

Looks like travel will be allowed but from what I can see - anyone arriving in the Republic has to quarantine for 14 days.... which kinda of makes the short weekend trip pointless

Flights won't be cancelled by the looks of things... so what are the options?

We have insurance so I assume we will end up claiming through that.

Will insurance pay out? You can travel, but just don't want to.

Won't the RyanAir allow you to change to flights to a different date - that is what they were offering for bookings over the last few months?

[Dan_1981]

PF62 said:

Dan_1981 said:

Dublin....


Meant to be going 12th Dec - (rescheduled three times now)

Looks like travel will be allowed but from what I can see - anyone arriving in the Republic has to quarantine for 14 days.... which kinda of makes the short weekend trip pointless

Flights won't be cancelled by the looks of things... so what are the options?

We have insurance so I assume we will end up claiming through that.

Will insurance pay out? You can travel, but just don't want to.

Won't the RyanAir allow you to change to flights to a different date - that is what they were offering for bookings over the last few months?

We do want too.... but the quarentine rules on arrival make it impossible.

Change is unclear - they let us move the first one for free, (we were originally meant to go in May) - the 2nd they charged us the difference for the flights but no fee to change them - this time the advice on the website refers to flights booked after 1st June - which ours obviously wasn't

[Jim on the hill]

Dan_1981 said:

PF62 said:

Dan_1981 said:

Dublin....


Meant to be going 12th Dec - (rescheduled three times now)

Looks like travel will be allowed but from what I can see - anyone arriving in the Republic has to quarantine for 14 days.... which kinda of makes the short weekend trip pointless

Flights won't be cancelled by the looks of things... so what are the options?

We have insurance so I assume we will end up claiming through that.

Will insurance pay out? You can travel, but just don't want to.

Won't the RyanAir allow you to change to flights to a different date - that is what they were offering for bookings over the last few months?

We do want too.... but the quarentine rules on arrival make it impossible.

Change is unclear - they let us move the first one for free, (we were originally meant to go in May) - the 2nd they charged us the difference for the flights but no fee to change them - this time the advice on the website refers to flights booked after 1st June - which ours obviously wasn't

As mentioned above I believe this would be classed as disinclination to travel which is almost always excluded by the insurers.

I had similar with two weeks in Thailand a few weeks ago, we could have technically gone but was a two week quarentine and mulitiple tests. So we have just got a credit for the flights.

[The Leaper]

"We do want too.... but the quarentine rules on arrival make it impossible."

Not impossible in any way...you just don't want to quarantine. So, you are therefore declining to travel if you do not go. Your decision, and why should you expect the insurer to pay out?

R.

[LuS1fer]

Even if you could claim, the excess on missed travel is usually higher than the loss.

[Robertj21a]

Dan_1981 said:

Dublin....


Meant to be going 12th Dec - (rescheduled three times now)

Looks like travel will be allowed but from what I can see - anyone arriving in the Republic has to quarantine for 14 days.... which kinda of makes the short weekend trip pointless

Flights won't be cancelled by the looks of things... so what are the options?

We have insurance so I assume we will end up claiming through that.

Surely, insurance won't pay out ?

[0a]

Good news... "Residents of areas that are designated “tier 3” at the end of England’s lockdown have been told they will be able to travel abroad from 2 December". https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advi...

Foreign holiday number 5 since July hopefully coming up!

[djc206]

Dan_1981 said:

Sigh.... Ryan Air

Oh. Chalk it up to experience then...

[0a]

A nice 24 seat block to myself



Plane



Car



Beer



Job done.

[craig1912]

BA just announced a load of flights from Southampton which will help the runway expansion. Can see a few breaks coming up from May onwards

[Shnozz]

craig1912 said:

BA just announced a load of flights from Southampton which will help the runway expansion. Can see a few breaks coming up from May onwards

Interesting. As a former local I was almost certain Soton airport would close, particularly with Bournemouth only 20 minutes down the road. Once Flybe went pop and with their limited accommodation for larger planes on the runway I thought it was curtains. Pleased to hear that.