Is The Coronavirus Impacting Your Travel Decisions?

[89coupe]

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You can (could?) also get "CFAR" insurance - cancel for any reason.

That's what we bought.

It’s pretty expensive is it not?

[Mitsu3000gt]

We're booking Ireland for September. Direct WestJest flights on the Dreamliner are only $583, and I suspect we'll pretty much have our pick of AirBnbs. I will probably pay the extra $40/ticket for cancellation privileges in case something happens at the destination that is beyond our control, and AirBnBs are easy to cancel up until a week or so before the trip so that is a non-issue. Mostly I'm just happy how much this has depressed pricing haha.

[flipstah]

I'm waiting for UK prices to go down!

[A790]

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It’s pretty expensive is it not?

We paid $80/pp for our flights to Japan.

[89coupe]

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We paid $80/pp for our flights to Japan.

Through who?

That seems insanely cheap.

[A790]

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Through who?

That seems insanely cheap.

Hopper.

[Skyline_Addict]

Looks like Monaco for F1 isn’t happening for me now...

[roopi]

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We paid $80/pp for our flights to Japan.

What percentage do they pay out? 75%?

[370Z]

Vegas, supposed to go Mar 29 and they just confirmed first case Nevada today ... bought cancellation insurance though a few days ago, although TD won't cover unless our government issues an advisory.

[2Legit2Quit]

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We're booking Ireland for September. Direct WestJest flights on the Dreamliner are only $583, and I suspect we'll pretty much have our pick of AirBnbs. I will probably pay the extra $40/ticket for cancellation privileges in case something happens at the destination that is beyond our control, and AirBnBs are easy to cancel up until a week or so before the trip so that is a non-issue. Mostly I'm just happy how much this has depressed pricing haha.

Did you book? Wondering what date combo you used, I'm getting around $750 return, which isn't bad but cheaper would be better

[ExtraSlow]

I have current personal travel booked for Houston, Atlanta and Vegas. Work trips not booked, but almost certainly doing Houston and Denver in the next 6 weeks. Empty planes sound really nice.

[gwill]

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I have current personal travel booked for Houston, Atlanta and Vegas. Work trips not booked, but almost certainly doing Houston and Denver in the next 6 weeks. Empty planes sound really nice.

have you thought about cancelling your trips and rebooking? I'm sure the prices are 50% cheaper now.

[ExtraSlow]

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have you thought about cancelling your trips and rebooking? I'm sure the prices are 50% cheaper now.

I am working around some dates that are not flexible, and prices have not dropped for the days I need. I think someone with flexibility would be wise to check this out however.

[sabad66]

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have you thought about cancelling your trips and rebooking? I'm sure the prices are 50% cheaper now.

Most flights you can’t really just cancel for a full refund and rebook later. Unless it’s within 24 hours of booking or if you book a refundable ticket which are usually like 50% more anyways

[RX_EVOLV]

I'm booked to go to a conference in Anaheim end of the month... will see if the conference itself will be cancelled. Wife really doesn't want me to go. According to hotels.com <30% of the hotels are booked for that time, and car rental gets cheaper by the day. Things are quiet down there.

[A790]

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What percentage do they pay out? 75%?

75 or 80, yea.

[FraserB]

Waiting for Italy to get a bit worse and then I'll book my Europe flights once the prices (hopefully) go down a bit more.

[Mitsu3000gt]

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Did you book? Wondering what date combo you used, I'm getting around $750 return, which isn't bad but cheaper would be better

Probably going to pull the trigger today, prices haven't changed. Dates we were looking at were Sep 5-20 or possibly slightly longer. If I add the cancellation it is around $750, but their basic fare was $583 last time I checked yesterday.

EDIT: No sooner did I post that, they jumped up to around $900/pp with cancellation privileges and $8XX without.

[hurrdurr]

It's tough being in the industry right now.

The majority of our larger clients have cancelled all non essential travel. Aside from cancelling all these flights and tracking credit's I've basically been twiddling my thumbs. Fucking fear mongering media!

[XylathaneGTR]

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Probably going to pull the trigger today, prices haven't changed. Dates we were looking at were Sep 5-20 or possibly slightly longer. If I add the cancellation it is around $750, but their basic fare was $583 last time I checked yesterday.

Keep in mind that a few insurance providers stated yesterday that FOR NEW BOOKINGS going forward, they wouldn't be covering "covid19-related" cancellations as the risk is now known. So even if you do have the cancellation insurance and cancel, they may weasel out of it (not sure if a government travel advisory would affect their position, but I still wouldn't trust an insurance company to honour a payment when they publicly stated they wouldn't). I doubt space is selling out right now, so it may be in your interest to hold off on pulling that trigger and wait to see how it plays out, as you may not have an insurance safety-net.