Travel plans, abandoned holidays and refund advice

[paul mckenna]

Spring is here and, as always, getting excited about travel. What do people have planned for the coming couple few months?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Pardon??

 

[colacubes]

Spring is here and, as always, getting excited about travel. What do people have planned for the coming couple few months?

This seems like a reasonable first post given the current circumstances

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Do you live on the moon?

 

[hash tag]

Travel agent desperate for business. Either that or it's Michael O'Leary

 

[Supine]

Hahaha

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I'm going to Sainsbury's in Maidenhead. You have to provide a few essentials like toilet paper, pasta and teabags but WiFi is free!!

 

[paul mckenna]

Watched the Constant Gardener last night and was drooling over the desert scenes

 

[hash tag]

Emirates Airlines or some other middle eastern operator

 

[keybored]

I'm planning to venture out to my car later today as I think I may have left my wallet in the glovebox. I'm getting pretty excited as you can imagine. I'll try to take some pics.

 

[nogojones]

Spring is here and, as always, getting excited about travel. What do people have planned for the coming couple few months?

I was thinking of going on a Saga cruise. There's loads of offers on TV at the moment

 

[Spymaster]

Thinking of doing a tour of Northern Italy next week.

 

[nogojones]

Spring is here and, as always, getting excited about travel. What do people have planned for the coming couple few months?

Bahnhof Strasse sock puppet

 

[Cloo]

My travel plans consist of maybe being able to consider travelling in 12-18 months' time

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Bahnhof Strasse sock puppet

No, but should you wish to know; nothing. Frau Bahn who hates flying is supposed to go to Portugal in May, then to Dublin in June and to Paris in July, that would be Eurostar rather than plane though. Then we are all supposed to go to Japan in July.
All looking like it may get canned.

 

[dessiato]

We are talking about going to the living room until 12 April. It's self catering but that will keep costs down. .

 

[oryx]

My travel plans consist of maybe being able to consider travelling in 12-18 months' time

I was thinking possibly late October but that now seems to be very optimistic...

 

[MickiQ]

Going for a walk around the housing estate later, making sure that I keep at least 2m away from anyone I see. That's if I see anyone, I saw 1 person and 1 dog (together naturally) yesterday.

 

[blossie33]

On a serious note, my nephew is getting married in June in Germany - thinking I probably won't be able to make the wedding now

 

[paul mckenna]

Looking forward to that ambulance ride. Be a bit of a change

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Was supposed to be in Bavaria/Austria in July, who knows whether that'll happen. The whole travel industry is fucked I guess right now but maybe this is a good thing?

• climate change
• spreading diseases

 

[brix_kitty]

 

[Thaw]

I am supposed to be in Sweden for Easter. They seem quite relaxed so far and everything is open so if SAS hadn't cancelled the flights I'd probably still go.

 

[StoneRoad]

Maybe out into the garden when the weather is good, staying inside otherwise, apart from limited trips for essential food shopping and walking the dog once a day.

 

[souljacker]

Mrs and kids were due to go to Portugal at Easter. Bizarrely, she got an email from BA about her upcoming flight. Our flights to Croatia in July have already been cancelled by RyanAir so why are BA still insisting its going to happen? Are they just trying to delay paying the refund? Bahnhof Strasse whats the word from the industry? Surely they can't be expecting them to still go?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Easter is cancelled, sorry.
No refunds from BA though, the money for the flights can be turned in to a voucher to be used for other flights up to a year from now. Go to ba.com/mmb to request the voucher. (Site keeps crashing). That is if BA still exists in a year, people think the U.K. government will bail them out, but they are now a Spanish company, so would be hard for that to happen...

 

[Spymaster]

That is if BA still exists in a year, people think the U.K. government will bail them out, but they are now a Spanish company, so would be hard for that to happen...

It's a bit of a complicated situation with IAG. Whilst they were formed as part of the merger between BA and Iberia, BA shareholders held the majority of the stock in the new firm. They're Spanish registered but headquartered in London, quoted on both London and Madrid stock markets, have a multinational board and an Irish CEO. Is a firm the nationality of where it's registered for tax purposes or of where it's majority of shares are held and traded? There Is some debate that IAG may no longer be legally considered an EU owned firm because, as a result of Brexit, the UK shares would have to be taken out and they most likely amount to more than 51% of the company, so it could be interesting to see who the group goes running to for any handouts.

 

[souljacker]

Easter is cancelled, sorry.
No refunds from BA though, the money for the flights can be turned in to a voucher to be used for other flights up to a year from now. Go to ba.com/mmb to request the voucher. (Site keeps crashing). That is if BA still exists in a year, people think the U.K. government will bail them out, but they are now a Spanish company, so would be hard for that to happen...

Money Saving Expert is saying hold firm for the money back and ignore the voucher offer but it's a bit close. Surely they have to give the money back by law?

 

[Sasaferrato]

Was going to Turkey in May, and Berlin in June.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Money Saving Expert is saying hold firm for the money back and ignore the voucher offer but it's a bit close. Surely they have to give the money back by law?

By law they do have to give the money back, but you’ll need to go through the small claims court and they’re shut...