How many here are still flying regularly?
Apr 12, 2020, 9:47 am
#16
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Mexico
Programs: BAEC Gold / Marriott Platinum
Posts: 3,545
Cancelled 2 return trips from MEX to LHR and end of June not looking too hopeful on same route. Easter in Milan, Verona and Venice went as well. Cancelled Mex to Hanoi in July and a trip up to Dallas. Not suffering lockdown though. Got a gym in house and home office natural for me. Was up till 2am drinking tequila with friends on Skype, so life is good haha.
Not sure when I'll fly again. I miss it for sure
Not sure when I'll fly again. I miss it for sure
Apr 12, 2020, 10:23 am
#18
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: London
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 2,644
I've got a NTE trip next month still intact (KL/AF/U2), but don't anticipating going. None of the flights are cancelled yet.
September was supposed to be a QR mileage run (unbooked, but hoping to still go. I keep tracking the prices which haven't budged much since January when I started looking). Pondering booking a Christmas Market trip for Dec, just so I have something to look forward to. Fingers crossed things will be relatively back to normal by then.
Apr 12, 2020, 10:53 am
#19
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 491
I've spent lockdown staying with family in the UK but as a dual British/Swedish national I am planning to repatriate myself to Sweden (where there isn't really a lockdown) in around four or five weeks from now. There is still one flight per day from LHR > ARN and always the risk of cancellations, hopefully less so towards the end of May.
Apr 12, 2020, 11:07 am
#20
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: JER
Programs: BA Gold/OWE, several MUCCI, and assorted Pensions!
Posts: 32,145
Instead of taking frequent holidays, we have acquired a new hobby ... managing refunds. 
There’s a carefully structured BAEC Gold renewal sliding down the plug-hole of life over the next 9 months. What’s really annoying is that we (well, certainly I) have an ever-diminishing number of years to do this stuff.
There’s a carefully structured BAEC Gold renewal sliding down the plug-hole of life over the next 9 months. What’s really annoying is that we (well, certainly I) have an ever-diminishing number of years to do this stuff.
Apr 12, 2020, 11:19 am
#21
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Singapore
Programs: BA Gold. KrisFlyer Gold
Posts: 732
I would love to be. My last flight was March 6th, and I've missed out on 12 flights over the last 5 weeks. 3 future bookings, all going to be cancelled.
Now trapped in a 40 sq metre flat, 6000 miles from my OH - who is also grounded from flying, though she works on board so is missing it a little less than me! Craving the sight of wing flex, fluffy white clouds, and the endless droning noises of the engines. Come back soon, normality, all is forgiven.
Now trapped in a 40 sq metre flat, 6000 miles from my OH - who is also grounded from flying, though she works on board so is missing it a little less than me! Craving the sight of wing flex, fluffy white clouds, and the endless droning noises of the engines. Come back soon, normality, all is forgiven.
Apr 12, 2020, 12:29 pm
#23
Join Date: Oct 2018
Programs: BAEC Gold, IHG Platinum, ALL Gold, Bonvoy Gold Elite, HHonors Gold
Posts: 384
I'm in the same boat, except it was going to be our first-ever time getting Gold... now instead of getting stuck into an authentic lasagne on the beaches of Catania, I'm heating a Tesco lasagna in the oven in Cambridge while listening to the "your call is important to us" chap on the refund line apparently get an email notification chime in the middle of recording it and they just... left it in, apparently.
Apr 12, 2020, 1:45 pm
#24
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: In the air
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Bonvoy LT Plat, Hilton Gold, GHA Tit, BA Gold, Turkish Elite
Posts: 8,720
Still waiting for my return flight home to the Caribbean. The local Govt there has been screwing around with changing their story on a daily basis for so long now that the national Courts have started telling them to stop. In the meantime, I'm helping AirBnB keep their income up.
Apr 12, 2020, 2:40 pm
#25
Join Date: Sep 2013
Programs: BAEC Gold, EK Skywards (enhanced Blue !), Oman Air Sindbad Gold
Posts: 6,399
I'm in the same boat, except it was going to be our first-ever time getting Gold... now instead of getting stuck into an authentic lasagne on the beaches of Catania, I'm heating a Tesco lasagna in the oven in Cambridge while listening to the "your call is important to us" chap on the refund line apparently get an email notification chime in the middle of recording it and they just... left it in, apparently.
(trust your call has been answered by now !)
Apr 12, 2020, 2:49 pm
#26
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 7,237
I'm in the same boat, except it was going to be our first-ever time getting Gold... now instead of getting stuck into an authentic lasagne on the beaches of Catania, I'm heating a Tesco lasagna in the oven in Cambridge while listening to the "your call is important to us" chap on the refund line apparently get an email notification chime in the middle of recording it and they just... left it in, apparently.
Apr 12, 2020, 5:17 pm
#27
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: San Diego
Programs: Plat Pro AAdvantage, but defected to BAEC
Posts: 1,222
I was supposed land back in the UK this morning to spend Easter with the in-laws. We had to make do with a WhatsApp conference call instead. Even my SIL “dailed in remotely “ as she is stuck in Alicante with the Easyjet groundings. Even if I had made it to London, the Easyjet grounding would have put the kybosh on the quick LTN-GLA-LTN I had planned for Tuesday to go and visit my mother.
My South African trip at the end of May is in tatters, so trying to see what I can do to reschedule and the rumor is that my Alaskan cruise in June will be sunk on Tuesday. No flights needed for that one as it operates out of the port of Los Angeles.
My South African trip at the end of May is in tatters, so trying to see what I can do to reschedule and the rumor is that my Alaskan cruise in June will be sunk on Tuesday. No flights needed for that one as it operates out of the port of Los Angeles.
Apr 12, 2020, 6:51 pm
#29
Join Date: Oct 2014
Programs: HappinesSMiles Silver
Posts: 545
I've spent lockdown staying with family in the UK but as a dual British/Swedish national I am planning to repatriate myself to Sweden (where there isn't really a lockdown) in around four or five weeks from now. There is still one flight per day from LHR > ARN and always the risk of cancellations, hopefully less so towards the end of May.
Apr 12, 2020, 8:02 pm
#30
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Arizona
Programs: BA (GGL G4L), AA (Gold), HH (Diamond); Marriott (Gold)
Posts: 3,011
My next booking from the US to the UK is currently scheduled for late June which remains very much in doubt at this point.
This is as close as I’ve been to flying since a trip to Tokyo in February. Sadly I’ve become the monopoly airline in my home and no one will play against me any more.
Jet Set board game
This is as close as I’ve been to flying since a trip to Tokyo in February. Sadly I’ve become the monopoly airline in my home and no one will play against me any more.
Jet Set board game