AAir_head

Thanks. That's new to me. Agree it would be much better to append something like this to a domain they own to avoid confusion--not sure why they would not have. Maybe some sort of domain naming conventions or restrictions?

cheers!

MSPeconomist

Can we assume that there are no Marriotts in Iran?

A W (and a Crowne Plaza) in the UAEwas quarantined, so I'm surprised there's no mention of that location.

kennycrudup

I'm not about to get worked up over what's just the Common Cold that's been to the gym a couple of times, but I am disappointed that after all the travel bans and cancellations everywhere I'm not seeing much in the way of travel discounts anywhere

kpfleming

There have been thousands and thousands of reservations cancelled all over the world. Many major international conferences (some with 50K-100K attendees) have been cancelled or postponed, so the hotel reservations for the attendees were all cancelled too.

arlflyer

It is much easier to give price than to take price. Chains have spent years getting price levels to where they are today (including all pricing levers of unbundling, channel management, dynamic pricing, etc.). They are going to hold out and maybe take a short term hit on volume before they give all that up.

rickg523

There have been some notable sales, but so far it looks like the majority of carriers have decided their staffs should take it in the neck with unpaid furloughs rather than drop ticket pricing to meet the market.

Tanic

Just gotta look. (poor GK must be crying over his spreadsheet)

margarita girl

There's one or two here.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marr...avel-plan.html

perkerkeem

Had to cancel a trip to Italy because work is afraid of it. Paid change fees on UA award tickets to go to Ireland instead just a few days before Italy got put on the change fee waiver list

still waiting on qantas or Emirates to issue a waiver to cancel my return

arlflyer

For a second I was very confused until I remembered that oddball JFK-MXP flight!

Happy

You may want to call UA again to ask a courtesy refund the change fee. Cruise lines are willing to refund penalties on cancellations made before announcements for travels fallen into the free cancellation period.

kennycrudup

Huh ... thanks for that. I wonder how far out it will let me book (I can't go to HI now due to obligations)?

Happy

[QUOTE=ftrichard;32141117]The second time the expiration date for free cancellations has moved. Doubtless it will move again over the next few weeks to incorporate stays in April.

Latest statement on cancellation waivers from Marriott

Kinda dumb for Marriott to move it 2 weeks at a time when airlines are canceling flights thru end of April.

South Korea is worth noting for its early detection - while the number of confirmed cases are scary, their mortality rate is much lower than else where. From a news clip on CNN this afternoon, South Korea has performed 140K tests so far. That explains why their confirmed cases are at high level, but then thanks to the early detection, they may be able to stop the spread, or at least having much less death cases.
Italy has also done several tens of thousands tests, but due to the nature of EU structure, it is very hard for Italy to contain it like South Korea, which also has over half of the infections related to the religious sect therefore easier to identify / trace.

Iran is the most worrisome country right now... That means its neighboring countries are at high risk.

rfrost

update: the Rome performances were indeed canceled, so I canceled the Rome segment of my trip, but the nights that would have been spent at a hotel in Rome will now be spent at a hotel in London— both in the Marriott “family.”

FlyingTomboy

Look, undoubtedly going to be less travel and volume this year. So, less Elites. Any chance Marriott would give some sort of promo that let folks get more Elite nights recognized to make status level? Or some sort of "smart" way to fill the gap of lower volumes.