Hey SF Bay Area locals: when do you expect you'll fly somewhere for fun?
Jul 30, 2020, 10:28 am
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Scratch my Helsinki trip end of September. Finnair just cancelled their entire schedule from JFK for the month of September. With the EU not allowing Americans in right now, suspect that trip wasn't going to happen anyway.
Jul 30, 2020, 7:45 pm
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I'm getting all sentimental here. My first trip earning Alaska points was a Horizon flight SMF-PDX. Before then, United SMF-ORD. It was back when we would happily drive to any airport in the region just for the kicks of it. STS, OAK, SJC, MRY, SMF, RNO. Haven't tried FAT though.
Jul 31, 2020, 5:25 am
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My answer to the question posed in the thread title: No idea, really. Maybe mid-2021? But that's probably too optimistic. 
Jul 31, 2020, 10:35 am
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I sent in my passport for renewal yesterday. I selected the extra large book for the first time, as I anticipate a lot more international travel in the next decade to make up for all this sitting around time. May we all enjoy long lives in good health and good fortune to allow that.
Jul 31, 2020, 10:49 am
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I sent in my passport for renewal yesterday. I selected the extra large book for the first time, as I anticipate a lot more international travel in the next decade to make up for all this sitting around time. May we all enjoy long lives in good health and good fortune to allow that.
Jul 31, 2020, 10:57 am
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Ha! I'd love to get together, but sans the vino. At the start of the pandemic, I decided to give that up. Too much of a good thing for too long.
Aug 2, 2020, 7:14 am
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I sent in my passport for renewal yesterday. I selected the extra large book for the first time, as I anticipate a lot more international travel in the next decade to make up for all this sitting around time. May we all enjoy long lives in good health and good fortune to allow that.
See here: https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...-covid-19.html
I also need to renew my passport, but not sure that now is the best time to send in the application. Also, it may easily be a year or more before I actually need it.
Aug 2, 2020, 8:35 am
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You do realize that it could take a LONG time to process, unless it's literally a "life-or-death emergency," right?
See here: https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...-covid-19.html
I also need to renew my passport, but not sure that now is the best time to send in the application. Also, it may easily be a year or more before I actually need it.
See here: https://travel.state.gov/content/tra...-covid-19.html
I also need to renew my passport, but not sure that now is the best time to send in the application. Also, it may easily be a year or more before I actually need it.
Aug 2, 2020, 9:06 am
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Took a work trip to Texas in June, long after our firm was locked down, because the judge required me to. I was worried about going, but had no real choice. What I learned from the trip, though, was that flying is possible with relative safety (in my completely non-scientific opinion), so long as you take precautions. As a result, we took a family trip to Vegas by plane in July, and glad we did. (Took significant precautions in Vegas as well.)
Aug 2, 2020, 9:32 am
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I can’t believe my luck in getting IDs and trips out of the way this past winter, so my mind is elsewhere these days, but I confess to wonder about getting stuck in the queue when applying at a backed up time and somehow getting passed by others who apply later. Maybe I'm just paranoid and need to get out more.
Aug 2, 2020, 10:01 am
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I can’t believe my luck in getting IDs and trips out of the way this past winter, so my mind is elsewhere these days, but I confess to wonder about getting stuck in the queue when applying at a backed up time and somehow getting passed by others who apply later. Maybe I'm just paranoid and need to get out more.
The trend is good, with the backlog diminishing each week. Looks like it will be under two months for me, which is about a year before I can imagine traveling internationally at this point. I don't have any loved ones abroad, so I won't have a "life-or-death" need for rapid processing.
Aug 5, 2020, 1:00 pm
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This doesn't look too bad:
The trend is good, with the backlog diminishing each week. Looks like it will be under two months for me, which is about a year before I can imagine traveling internationally at this point. I don't have any loved ones abroad, so I won't have a "life-or-death" need for rapid processing.
The trend is good, with the backlog diminishing each week. Looks like it will be under two months for me, which is about a year before I can imagine traveling internationally at this point. I don't have any loved ones abroad, so I won't have a "life-or-death" need for rapid processing.
i thought the rapid process was no longer available.
Aug 5, 2020, 1:07 pm
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See Kathy's link a few posts up. They have a very limited category of "life-or-death" emergency applications. Unless you are one of the few folks who (unfortunately) qualify for that, it's all one big line. They claim it's first-in-first-out, so I think it's best to apply now rather than later.
Aug 6, 2020, 8:04 am
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Personally, my travel will restart only in baby steps. First, some trips in my own car to locales not too far away. Later, when it seems prudent, some short flights to nearby states. Etc. None of that requires a current passport. 