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Old Mar 16, 2020, 5:39 am
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CosmicGirl
 
Join Date: Oct 2010
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Overnight Disney World has announced that it's closing all its hotels on Friday, contrary to what they had announced previously (parks closed but hotels open). So at the very least all the Virgin Holidays customers who are there need to be brought home, or VH will be responsible for finding alternative accommodations for all of them. And that's not counting all the ones who are staying in non-Disney hotels that will likely close soon or already have. Then add in the non-VH but just VS customers who need to be taken care of. Don't forget that under EU261 airlines have to pay for accommodations, food, and transportation if they cancel flights, even in a force majeure case such as this. At this point none of us know how long this is going to take so it may very well be more cost effective for VS to fly the outbounds empty and bring everyone home than to have to pay to extend all their passengers' stays for who knows how long.
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