When we get to a situation where many Western countries have dramatically reduced their number of Coronavirus cases and they each lift their lockdowns, how do you envisage foreign travel can resume? Countries relatively virus free will not want travellers bringing it back in, but where they rely heavily on tourism it will be an impossible decision.... Read More

What can possibly be the rationale for fares like this? With no advance purchase and available immediately. While it’s more than very unwise, there will likely be those who do mileage runs with this fare. Or go on a “fun” trip. Which flies in the face of all the hard work being done to get people to stay at home. And can result in infecting others.... Read More

American has announced a large fleet reduction via accelerated retirements of older aircraft. Namely the 757s, 767s and 74 older 737-800s. Delta has also announced acceleration of the MD fleet retirement. What adjustments might we see to the Alaska fleet? Will the a319s be jettisoned sooner? Perhaps some of the older 737-800s will be retired?... Read More

I have dual nationality (British/Swedish) and have been spending the last couple of weeks visiting my family in the UK. I am planning to stay in the UK throughout April until we are hopefully past the peak of cases/transmissions and to support a family member. My plan is to return to Sweden on 1st May (there are flights available with BA) but is th... Read More

Anyone else get an email from them today about their account being compromised? I got the following (only posting the first bit as it's a long email!) Dear Valued Guest, We are writing to let you know that some of your information may have been accessed without authorization. We are sorry that this occurred, and this message explains what happen... Read More

I am booking a business class award for my wife and I from MCO-AMS returning CDG-MCO. Outbound, we are doing the nonstop on DL riding on a 767. For the return we can connect in ATL or AMS. The CDG-AMS-MCO routing has us flying in a KL 737 and and the DL 767 again for 109000 VS miles each. The CDG-ATL-MCO routing has us flying a DL 777 with new... Read More

Nice sale for non-stop travel between Miami and Lima, Peru. This fare is valid till early December 2020 and works over the various holiday weekends. We selected Labor Day and Thanksgiving as sample trips. Delta recently published earning charts for LATAM and this fare would earn 150% MQMs and RDMs as well as 30% of distance as M... Read More

Hi regular SWA fliers, They usually open Nov. and Dec about now right? I know circumstances are unprecedented and opening any new schedule will take tons of more work. But I'm optimistic we will be able to travel again on whatever the new normal reality is by the late Fall. I have to hold on to this hope, MGM is giving away rooms in Vegas and... Read More

Ladies and Gentleman, Welcome to this new master thread which was inspired by [utag=907989]Nephoi[/utag] and [utag=792587]Misco60[/utag] and myself at the BA Tier Point Runs thread. Even though it's not the best timing, I'm honored to open the BA Tier Point Run Meet-Up thread in order for FT members to share their TP run itineraries here and for... Read More

We have reward flights booked for August, and as lowly Blue members of the Exec Club have paid for seat selection. If, as seems increasingly possible, we (or BA) cancel these flights will we have a cash refund of the seat selection fee? I understand we will get a refund of the Avios plus fees/taxes (subject to an amendment fee), but what about th... Read More

Just a quick question. I have had a flight cancelled by BA that was scheduled for 30th April. I would be happy to rebook for later this year (September), but wondered if I could have a like for like booking or if I would have to pay any difference in cost. I’m guessing i would have to pay any extra, but wasn’t sure if the rules were different at... Read More

10 nights into a 20 nights' booking, I've been asked to vacate the Doubletree Warsaw on a prepaid rate; the property was closing down due to low occupancy (cancelled conferences/locked-up spa facilities and no volunteers for the usual Passover/Easter catering events. The hotel staff took no initiative to contact other Hilton properties in Warsa... Read More

From reliable source: - Rebooking fee increases from 1000 AM to 5000 AM per sector (via online) - Rebooking fee increases from 4000 AM to 5500 AM per sector (via hotline) - Refund dee increases from 12000 AM to 15000 AM per ticket Effective 1 June 2020. Hope this is not true but likely this will happen! Read More

I had a pre-paid reservation at the Domes of Elounda in Greece booked for June 2020. Along comes COVID-19 uncertainty and on 3/13/20 I call Marriott to cancel. I'm informed that the property isn't honoring cancellations at this time, but keep checking as the pandemic keeps changing things. A few hours later I see the "Message from our CEO" posting... Read More

Just reading on SMH (https://www.smh.com.au/national/coronavirus-updates-live-global-covid-19-cases-surpass-737-000-nsw-begins-enforceme... Read More

There was a flight to London cancelled yesterday and I heard the next flight out isn't for 2 weeks and now I wonder if there will be enough seats for everyone who wants to get out on that flight. Is there another way out? Can people pool together to charter a jet out to London or even to Athens and then get a commercial flight out of Athens? Someo... Read More

Just bought NOV 21-29, 2020 LAX-LIM for $598 on EXPEDIA. Found it on google flights after seeing an $814 R/T to Sao Paolo. W Skymiles attached to Reservation, it should give a good amount of miles, but I don’t know how to do the calculation since I bought it on Expedia. Seems like a GREAT price to me. Read More

Apologies for the bad quality photo, and also if this was already mentioned. Summary of the text is this is made out of the fuselage of G-BNLJ and is to close out their 100 year c... Read More

Does anyone have confirmation that holiday deadline dates are being delayed? Our final payment is due on April 18th, but we’re holding out for cancellation rather than a voucher. However we don’t really want to pay the final balance if the flight hasn’t been cancelled by then. Read More

I just got an email from DL saying that I've earned 15,000 MQMs from spending $30,000 on my Reserve card. This was unexpected as the app shows my spend as $29K and recently has been updating more frequently than the weekend changes I've noticed pretty consistently in the past. More significantly, my closing date was about ten days ago and according... Read More

This doesn't seem to be in the spirit of the max 3 points advance reservations per account limit. I have two points advance reservations, each for 2 rooms and just received an email warning from Marriot saying I exceeded the 3 PA res limit and that if no action has been taken over the next 48 hours, all reservations greater than three will be ca... Read More

Quick question. both my wife and I have around 150,000 miles each with them expiring in august this year. we both live in U.K. so earning miles is more difficult at the best of time but given current situation, even harder. I am looking at best way to avoid this happening and want to know whether transferring 1,000 miles between account... Read More

I'm near LAX and by chance just saw a VS 747 land (a rare sight for me being based on the west coast USA - I've only seen the infamous VS 747s at LHR!). Looking online it looks like the landing flight was [url=https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VIR607]VS 607[/url] LHR-LAX and that it's supposed to leave in a few hours as [url=https://www.flightra... Read More