GUWonder

After all the hard work for the jagar exam to get the license, I can understand that you don’t want to risk losing the license (for poaching or other violations) and may want to avoid having the police come out to the mansion in the boonies to collect the guns for poaching and other violations related to that. I’ll have to do my hunting where it’s allowed and do my part to protect your Second Amendment rights where they don’t exist. Oh, wait, that means I’m protecting nothing.

JR67

Everyone here is complaining about slow refunds. That is NOTHING! Thanks to corona I had to let almost my entire staff go. I have to peel my grapes myself now.

GUWonder

The remaining Swedish household staff are the essential personnel that can’t be terminated and can’t terminate you but can certainly mutiny if the grapes aren’t giftfri and up to Swedish standards.

I only have 4 SAS tickets left to get changed or refunded, but it’s going to be a pain to get them changed or refunded. Maybe I need to go to CPH and cough up a lung while refusing to leave until they do what I want?

RedChili

So, it appears that SAS will demand that all passengers 6 years or older will need to wear a facemask between May 18 and 31 August. They're also removing all non-essential items from the airplanes such as reading materials, pillows, and blankets. And they will stop serving food on board.

https://www.sasgroup.net/newsroom/pr...reise-med-sas/

Will this also apply to intercontinental flights? I mean, most passengers could manage without being served food on intra-Europe, but on flights to LAX and SFO, both food, pillows and blankets are fairly essential.

CPH-Flyer

Some level of food serving on long haul would be the norm even these days.

Though the current BA F meal is the Euro buy on board M&S sandwiches, actually that is the food in any BA long haul cabin these days it seems. On the other hand JAL is serving the usual meals. I think the appropriate thing might be somewhere in between these two.

I agree serving no food at all on long haul is just not the way to go. But as there currently are no long haul flights, it is difficult to know. The text sadly seems pretty clear.

Superrman

Perhaps I'm reading something into it which shouldn't be there, but a categorical "no food" with no special mention of long-haul makes me think that it's more likely that we won't see resumption of long-haul passenger flights in the proposed period.

GUWonder

The SK long-haul fleet being off from passenger operations for this period? That wouldn’t surprise me, as it would be a cost-control measure that minimizes financial bleed when given the alternative of low and more vulnerable demand.

oliver2002

QR is still serving the full business class meal, but SAS style with the plastic covers still on: Current Onboard Catering and Beverages

RedChili

Does anybody know where a Swedish resident can buy a travel insurance which is valid while the UD recommends to abstain from all non-essential foreign travel?

Fredrik74

No, but if it exists it would be where you'd normally buy insurance for holidays in Somalia or Afghanistan.

I'm sure you're already checked and know the mainstream insurance companies won't touch your money with a 10 metre pole

RedChili

Yes, both my home insurance and the AmEx insurance are not valid, so that's why I'm asking. I reckon that some people on this board are still traveling, and I have at least one necessary trip coming up this summer.

fassy

Yepp, Fredrik nailed it. Forget SEB, Folksam etc. You need to look for a "High Risk Travel Insurance", you can get those from various insurance companies like "High Risk Voyager". But they are obviously not cheap.

All depends where you go? EU? Or Nigeria? Makes a huge difference.

GUWonder

To where are you going? I had calls made to some Swedish insurers and the calls generally came back with that the travel was still covered unless UD had a warning against the visits to the country. But I also don’t trust answers on the phone as much as the written word.

We were asking about vacations inside the EU/EEA, to the Americas, and domestic Swedish travel more than 2 hours away from insured property. The last one was the one which I was most interested in finding out about since the recommendation came out against non-essential travel more than 2 hours away.

By the way, insurance companies (including reinsurers) are being financially hammered like never before in our lifetimes. So make sure the insurer is likely to survive and still being good about handling claims. Otherwise there may be some unwanted surprises.

nacho

I called If, Moderna and M Sverige and asked them and they said as long as UD recommendations stay like this no travel insurance will valid because I have insurance in 3 different companies. The reason was that we needed to go to DK and all of them told us that as long as we are in the Nordic region then our insurance will cover (it was "YMMV" necessary trip to DK).

GUWonder

One of my family friends was the head of a Swedish insurance company named in this thread. We asked the then-CEO of that insurance company about insuring some high-value belongings in Sweden. The word back was don’t waste the money on the additional insurance (for rider coverage of sort) and self-insure or otherwise mitigate for the risk with other actions. I guess one day I will find out if it was costly advice or costly insurance.

I usually don’t see the value in me buying travel insurance. And if I buy travel insurance, it’s more likely that the insurance company got a client they don’t really want because I’m more likely to choose to be covered when I suspect that there is a higher risk than usual and my cost to self-insure in ways is less than ideal for me.