Originally Posted by schoflyer
I'm scheduled to "transit" at CMB about one month from now.
I am going to be spending a few bucks out of my own pocket to bring this "destination" into play for me on my quarterly business trips to Asia. Once set up however, I can do 2 trips to BKK and 2 trips to SIN/CMB each year.
After reading about the current state of affairs in Sri Lanka this morning, I'm questioning wether or not I should cancel. Is it really worth small degree of risk?
I can give up on CMB with a single phone call. It will cost me $35 to cancel, I'll save the out of pocket $700 incremental fare that my company does not cover.
I can choose wether or not to fly my "intra-asia repositioning filight" down to SIN and make use of a pre-paid night at the SIN IC or just forget the hotel night and save that RT airfare too ($500 SQ C).
I'll still make top tier on NH, and am only giving up a long shot at making UA 1K as well. Thus far I have 0 UA EQM. I can easily delay this until December or Feb 06 if things quiet down, but I'm just not excited about flying into a powder keg.
What would you do in my position?
I know you are only doing a turnaround at the airport.
It seems your only purpose to go to CMB is to get more status and more miles.
If this is the case I would save the money and rescehedule at another quieter time.
I agree that SQ would not fly in there if they thought there was a risk but then BA was caught up in the invasion of Kuwait but that is another story.
My 2 cents