rankourabu

Several weeks of vacations planned Jan/Feb for summer and fall are slowly coming apart with cancellations now into early July for some airlines

South Africa, Indonesia, Poland, Singapore for July
Tahiti and Hawaii for August
Azores for September

all most likely wont happen

HGOLI

As I type this from home (UK) I should be in the Kruger (South Africa) now on a 3 week self drive trip. Cancelled.
Also have a 3 week Kruger and Eswatini trip booked for November, but that's going to go the same way as this May trip :-(

jrl767

my mid-July conference in CPT has been recast (so to speak) as a virtual event; we had planned three days at Vic Falls prior, three days in the wine country and five days in Kruger afterwards, and a three-day stopover in SIN on the way back

I used miles for all the long-haul flights (BA F and SQ J), so those aren't an issue; bought travel insurance with a Cancel-For-Any-Reason rider a few days after booking the land portions, so I **should** be able to recover 75% of the initial (nonrefundable) deposit ... if KQ (VFA-CPT) and SA Airlink (CPT-ULX and HDS-JNB) announce that they'll only offer credits for travel next year, I'll add those flights to the claim

the potential good news is that the organization announced they intend to hold the 2022 conference in CPT if health/social/travel conditions permit

Often1

Many large enterprises are cancelling all or close to all travel through the end of 2020. That may well cause the cancellation and consolidation of many flights that might have operated. In addition, it is impossible to determine what government entry restrictions may exist. Even those with citizenship or residence and who may enter, may find themselves quarantined.

Baseline rule is that if the flight goes, you are entitled to whatever the fare rules -- including any special Covid-19 waiver -- permit. That is generally a credit. If the flight is cancelled or refunded, you will be due a refund for all flights on EU and US carriers as well as all flights from the EU and to or from the US, regardless of carrier nationality.

This suggests doing nothing now. Even if you decide to cancel, wait for the carrier to do so (or significantly change the schedule). If that happens, request a refund. If it does not, you can always cancel for a Covid-19 credit on most carriers, up tot he day of travel.

radonc1

Just about all of my conferences for the remainder of this year have been transformed into virtual meetings. This has wiped out the entire calendar of summer and fall events and has now extended into the early winter as well. All of these events were domestic, not international (although international attendees were part of these meetings).

So my travel is kaput for meetings. If my consulting gigs go up in smoke as well, I may not get on a plane for the rest of the year

tmiw

I have an August (originally scheduled for March) domestic trip on WN that is still happening for the time being. That will depend on whether there's a second wave in CA that causes some of the recently lifted restrictions to get put back.

We're also hoping to travel to Ireland this coming April (originally last month) but I'm fully expecting mandatory quarantines for Americans--if not outright travel bans--as long as we continue to do a poor job at controlling COVID-19 domestically. It's why I haven't re-booked yet and why we might delay doing so until farther into 2021 (if not 2022).

VWTim

Similar region for us. We have Budapest via Vienna for late September, with a return routing thru Dubai. Lots of moving parts even IF we are allowed to take this trip. Any political unrest in Hungary? Will Emirates be flying their A380's (1/2 the reason for the trip)?

GetSetJetSet

i'm still holding out hope for July onwards.

Redmax

Cancelled all flights internationally till Jan 2021.As long as the countries close its borders, no vaccine available and the 14 days qurantine rule exists, I have to find other ways of vacationing. Business meetings now mostly through video conferences and calls, never thought how easy it is now for everyone as we do not have a choice!! Company now is so eager and generous to provide for the equipments. Working at home has not been easy to get. Of course as the company says all about the health meassures!. Let us see how many business trips I will get in 2021 with all these "new" possibilities. I feel "nada"...

stablemate77

me and wife suppose to go wedding lax to seattle cancelled hawaii in june cancelled fishing in cache creek canada bc cancelled france in july cancelled thought it would have been better by now the virus

Desirees

Canceled our Sep tickets. We now have tickets to go to India in Jan ( one can hope, right?)

pinniped

I have a bunch of short-haul (US) stuff booked for later this year. Still plan on doing it....they're trips that aren't related to any special events or large gatherings. Just need basic services to be available, really.

Planning Asia for June 2021. Will be booking it as soon as the CX award calendar opens up. Figure that should be reasonably safe... Then Ireland in August 2021, that'll probably be a paid ticket.

lhrsfo

Cancelled everything through the rest of the year, with the possibility of resuscitating some if it seems appropriate. Still have a vacation in a friend's house in Italy in the calendar for late July and there's an outside possibility this will happen. I never got around to booking flights BC (Before Covid) and I see no need to do so now until a firm decision is made.

onobond

Actually made a reservation for ABZ (Aberdeen, Scotland) ultimo September, two days ago.

Today's news says 14 days quarantine implemented in UK .
Timing could have been better...

JNelson113

You're my kind of person!