To ask whether you foresee your summer travel plans proceeding?

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Was planning on a 6 week trip to the UK from a Gulf State but am now of the mind it more than likely won’t happen so I’ll do it later in the year instead. I have a severely disabled son to get back to and if I say I’ll be away for x amount of sleeps I have to make sure I’m back when I should be.

It’s an important trip too. I’m basically going to be taking a good look at just how my dad and step mum are managing.

I booked all our shorthaul budget flights for this year before the end of last year. I think our long weekend in Italy for the early May bank holiday will be fine. Our last family holiday in July will be affected I think. I just checked that our 2 holiday rentals needs to be cancelled in June so hopefully, it will be clearer by then. I haven't prebooked any activities like I would normally have done since I want to mitigate any losses. Similarly, we have flights to Athens in the autumn for my birthday - I'm not booking a hotel until I'm sure the fuel crisis is manageable. Back up plan is to visit family around the UK instead.

We had refunds for both and would expect a full refund if this ends up being "3rd time unlucky" for us.

Although reading some of the comments on this thread has me worried? If our tour operator has to cancel then surely we'll get a full refund? I think I need to find the T&C of our trip.

I’ve got flights booked with easyJet in September. Assume if they’re cancelled we will get a refund? Hadn’t organised insurance yet! 😬

We have a package holiday booked to Italy end of May and wanted to book another holiday later on in the year but holding off to see what happens. For our holiday in May we live quite a distance from all airports and have an early flight and are quite a distance from the airport we are flying from. We usually travel the day before and stay over in a hotel close to the airport so really hope our flight isn’t cancelled, gets moved to another airport even further away or the dates get changed which will mess with my annual leave dates.

Mine better be proceeding as I’m off glamping against my better judgment.

not booked anything yet, waiting to see what happens re flights and holidays abroad.

We’re meant to be going to Spain in July. Not worrying about it at this stage, I’m assuming I’m going unless I hear otherwise directly from Jet2.
I also had holidays cancelled due to Thomas Cook going bust and COVID. It really wasn’t a big deal, we were ATOL protected and refunded in full promptly.

I’m going to the US so I’m kind of hoping that doesn’t happen 😂😂

Hoping the flights home will be cancelled and we’ll be forced to stay on holiday indefinitely.

Wales next week - that will be fine!
France in June and again in July should be ok.
Croatia in August is a bit of a worry as it’s further, and we are also hoping to book Sicily for September, holding off for now.

Booked our AirBNB in Crete last year, going 4th September for my 60th. BNB paid for (non-refundable); more recently, flights (paid for), car rental (cancellable), the cat sitter (cancellable). So if flights are cancelled, should get a few things refunded easily enough.. feeling it's 50/50 at the moment. Looking forward to the trip but if it's cancelled so be it - will be looking for last minute ferries to somewhere!

Meant to be off to Spain at the end of July, 15th wedding anniversary and 2 DC. Been saving for it for 3 years, and booked it in early Jan. Been learning Spanish for the last 10 months. The children have been working so hard in their swimming lessons, to make the most of the pools and water park.

Really, really hope that it will go ahead. Was initially just worrying about the new airport passport delays, but now worrying about actually going.

All part of a package, and got insurance the day we booked, but it is something we have been looking forward to so much.

Just looked at tickets now, going to cost me over 1000e just for flights (though tbf that's with seat booking, fast track and priority), with Ryanair! And can't book until my manager confirms my time off.

We usually go away early September each year, just a week in Europe but as yet, we haven’t anything. We’re going to see how things pan out over the coming weeks before we start planning but hopefully we can go somewhere.

We're off to Austria, but not until September.

No point worrying about it.

We had a fully booked and paid for holiday to Italy cancelled during Covid. It took a little while, but we got all our money back, apart from the cost of a pre-holiday airport hotel.

Possibly. We already had main holiday this year at the beginning with some winter sun as we hadn’t been away away for years.

But we are in central/ southern Europe, and had planned a quick trip back to see family in Uk. I haven’t booked flights yet. We could theoretically drive but it’s almost a 3 day drive which makes it tricky as I had only planned a week off to visit. We have electric car so lack of fuel wouldn’t be huge issue

We will just enjoy where we live mainly for summer though. It’s a hot summer destination so no need to travel for that.

Yep, in the very early days of the current supply glitch there was quite a bit of talk in the MSM of how far ahead airline xxx was hedged or yyy was hedged...thereby maybe hinting it gave those airlines some sort of protection.

Not much if any mention that hedging is basically a mechanism for gambling on the markets and means little to nothing if the fuel is not there to be had..

Yes I know ! .
I thought the other holidays people maybe able to give us more concrete information as to what is going on with supply.

Where is the supply coming from that is giving them such confidence . Why not just say if so

Oh, Petrol/diesel Uk I can't begin to guess, sorry.

It’s possible to drive to most of Europe or go on the train with stop overs.