Contingency Plan-- Should I plan for hopscotching restrictions?
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Contingency Plan-- Should I plan for hopscotching restrictions?
My wife and I have an anniversary trip booked for April/May 2021 which involves PHL-DOH-MLE-SIN-HAN-SGN-BKK-HND/NRT-ORD-PHL.
At this point, I'm beginning to worry about so many different countries aligning with COVID restrictions, as we are having a couple of nights in most. If we were leaving right now, we could still get to the Maldives, and we would.
Looking for some advice on a contingency plan to get straight back from the Maldives, where we would have both our original, and another plan booked, should things not improve, or deteriorate in the meantime.
Hopefully, I've explained this in an understandable manner! Any suggestions appreciated!
At this point, I'm beginning to worry about so many different countries aligning with COVID restrictions, as we are having a couple of nights in most. If we were leaving right now, we could still get to the Maldives, and we would.
Looking for some advice on a contingency plan to get straight back from the Maldives, where we would have both our original, and another plan booked, should things not improve, or deteriorate in the meantime.
- MLE-SIN-HAN (J) is booked with SQ miles
- BKK-HND (J) is booked with Avios
- NRT-ORD (F) is booked with LifeMiles
Hopefully, I've explained this in an understandable manner! Any suggestions appreciated!
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Anyone who are telling you that they know which countries will or will not have restrictions, which ones, and for whom in April or May is lying to you. There is simply no way to answer your question, your itinerary has very little chance of being doable and many of the flights may even be cancelled, but which parts will be cancelled and/or forbidden is simply impossible to tell at this stage, and as a result, you simply do not know what you need an alternative for. I'm afraid that you'll simply need to leave with the uncertainty for many more months (unless you prefer to simply cancel obviously, which is arguably the only way of getting certainty for now).
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no way you can build a plan B for 6 weeks time never mind 6 months time.
Save yourself some worrying till much nearer the time!!!
Save yourself some worrying till much nearer the time!!!
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Anyone who are telling you that they know which countries will or will not have restrictions, which ones, and for whom in April or May is lying to you. There is simply no way to answer your question, your itinerary has very little chance of being doable and many of the flights may even be cancelled, but which parts will be cancelled and/or forbidden is simply impossible to tell at this stage, and as a result, you simply do not know what you need an alternative for. I'm afraid that you'll simply need to leave with the uncertainty for many more months (unless you prefer to simply cancel obviously, which is arguably the only way of getting certainty for now).
There will be a vaccine in place by then, which will allow travel to most places, so this is purely a plan B.
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Indeed. That's why I was thinking about transitting only SIN. Perhaps MLE-SIN-EWR. The aim of the post was to find a way home with one stop just transit.
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more options at the moment just gives you more to worry about as you see more things that can go wrong, you would soon decide you need a plan C, d e and f
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The challenge on FlyerTalk is both word choice selection and the specificity/breadth of questions posed in any given post.
By using "worry" in your original post, specific people reacted to that. Others are projecting their travel challenges/concerns that have been built up over these multiple months impacted by CV-19.
You may get better results posting to specific fora relevant to either specific countries/regions and/or travel legs on specific airlines.
David
By using "worry" in your original post, specific people reacted to that. Others are projecting their travel challenges/concerns that have been built up over these multiple months impacted by CV-19.
You may get better results posting to specific fora relevant to either specific countries/regions and/or travel legs on specific airlines.
David
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I get you are looking for fun but I really don't know what suggestions people could give right now on the hypothetical of what countries may or may not have covid restrictions in April. You are asking for suggestions that are impossible to give. If you want suggestions on good use of miles round the world though, look at using Alaska miles to fly Cathay from Tel Aviv or Dubai to USA via HKG(with free stopover in HKG). 62/70k miles one way in business/first.
I think most people are optimistic that there will be a vaccine by end of year or early next year but also the consensus is that it will take 6months+ for the vaccine to be rolled out in sufficient numbers as to have an effect. Maybe countries will allow those to enter if they can prove they have the vaccine but who knows when we will be able to get it. If I was to take a guess, I would say that your trip will not be do-able but who really knows.
I think most people are optimistic that there will be a vaccine by end of year or early next year but also the consensus is that it will take 6months+ for the vaccine to be rolled out in sufficient numbers as to have an effect. Maybe countries will allow those to enter if they can prove they have the vaccine but who knows when we will be able to get it. If I was to take a guess, I would say that your trip will not be do-able but who really knows.
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Hi,
I would guess that MLE would be the most likely ( and will probably need a test ).
I think that Japan could well remain closed until the Olympics
Good luck!
Regards
TBS
I would guess that MLE would be the most likely ( and will probably need a test ).
I think that Japan could well remain closed until the Olympics
Good luck!
Regards
TBS