TUI have cancelled all flights to Spain!

[Overseasmom100]

Just read this am shocked!!

Good. Anyone who was stupid enough to fly in the first place now has to face the consequences of that decision.

Flying in the middle of a pandemic. Honestly 🤦‍♀️

How could anyone be shocked? If was always going to happen. Totally selfish to consider international travel during a pandemic IMHO.

5000 cases in Spain in just TWO days, TUI are acting responsibly in my view. The ethics of flying families out to what is now potentially the dreaded second wave knowing they are likely to become ill/stranded are obvious to me.

I would be booking the first flight available out of Spain if I was there right now, and I would not getting on a flight anywhere else either. Surely we must have learnt the patterns after what happened in the spring.

It is a pandemic, our holidays are not the priority right now.

My thoughts are with the people of Spain

My thoughts are with the people of Spain

This. Not whining because an unnecessary beano to another country during a pandemic has been cancelled, but this is real and sadly many more will die.

I told you so.

There, just thought I'd get that out there.

Legoandloldolls - we're doing well, plenty of people down here on holiday

@torthecatlady

A family friend flew to the canaries this morning with TUI and only heard about the quarantine once they'd landed.

Do you mean they went on Saturday morning? The quarantine wasn't announced until Saturday evening, are you saying that the knew about it in the morning in the Canaries but let people still fly out for the whole of Saturday?

We weighed up the risks but didn't except sudden change

Gov.uk travel advice:

"This advice is being kept under constant review. Travel disruption is still possible and national control measures may be brought in with little notice."

It's been all over the news this last week or so that cases are rising in Europe and that areas of Barcelona were getting so high that a lockdown there was likely.

Lockdowns and travel restrictions etc have been glaringly obvious. Covid hasn't gone away.

We weighed up the risks but didn't except sudden change

It was last time, people didn’t expect sudden change then, and then a lot of stuck people.

The recent spike in Spain has taken people by surprise.

Why? It was blindingly obvious this would happen when people start mixing and socialising again throughout Europe.

Why are you shocked ?! They've done the right thing

@TheFaerieQueene

I’m amazed that anyone thinks going on holiday during a pandemic is a good idea.

This.

I'm so perplexed by all the people who just assume everything is ok now.

Fine, if you make the decision to go abroad or whatever, I get it, if you're aware it is both a health and financial risk. It's this blithely thinking that everything is fine now that gets me.

Anyone rushing straight out to book a holiday was bloody stupid.

Already booked holidays which hadn’t been cancelled are understandable, but booking a foreign holiday just weeks out of lockdown? No sympathy here.

Friend has a holiday to Majorca booked which they have been planning for two years, and TBH the rates there are incredibly low and yet they’re required to quarantine on return. They’re waiting to see if their flights will be cancelled. (Jet2 and easyJet)

And British airways need to stop bloody wining about quarantine....

@mccavitythethird

Why are you shocked ?! They've done the right thing

From what I read on MN “shock” has a different meaning to what it does in the rest of the world, it seems to be used to mean mild surprise or slight puzzlement. I don't know when this started but I notice it all the time.

No one could possibly be surprised that after a quarantine is introduced a holiday company would suspend flights to that area could they?

From what I read on MN “shock” has a different meaning to what it does in the rest of the world, it seems to be used to mean mild surprise or slight puzzlement. I don't know when this started but I notice it all the time.

It's all exaggerated on MN, from shock at this to it being appalling not being allowed to eat on a train. It's all blown out of proportion.

Sadly many people seem to think the pandemic is over and they are entitled to go away. Maybe a more targeted regional approach would work but right now it's country wide. Grant Shapps has got caught out. Really 2020 will be a write off 're holidays to certain areas.

My friend had her Tui holiday to Tenerife in October cancelled last week so they probably knew this was coming

@im5050

My friend had her Tui holiday to Tenerife in October cancelled last week so they probably knew this was coming

Infection rates throughout Europe are increasing, so everyone should have known what was coming. It's been all over the news, on the internet, etc as has the impending Barcelona lockdown.

@mccavitythethird

From what I read on MN “shock” has a different meaning to what it does in the rest of the world, it seems to be used to mean mild surprise or slight puzzlement. I don't know when this started but I notice it all the time.

It's all exaggerated on MN, from shock at this to it being appalling not being allowed to eat on a train. It's all blown out of proportion.

I think you are right @mccavitythethird

My RL experience of the whole crisis doesn't bear any relation to threads here, I wonder if a very specific demographic makes up the members.

My RL is that people are getting on with things, going away, wearing masks, happy to send their children to school in September, going shopping etc.

I can't tell which is the reality for most

My brother had his holiday to Greece cancelled a few weeks back. It always seemed risky to book anything for this year imo. Yes we all need a holiday but any holiday has the potential to be disrupted and made miserable by sudden lockdown and quarantine measures. The stress of being stuck abroad or not being paid for two weeks quarantine or god forbid catching COVID will outweigh any benefits of going abroad on holiday.
People still travelling back in February/March when we saw what was going on in China, Italy, Spain, Iran etc helped spread it round the world. We should have closed borders.

Not everyone going to Spain is on a jolly. We were planning to see elderly relatives we haven’t seen since Christmas.

@SheWranglesRugRats

Not everyone going to Spain is on a jolly. We were planning to see elderly relatives we haven’t seen since Christmas.

It’s still a jolly. Is it an essential trip? I haven’t seen my elderly parents since before Christmas and they are in the UK.

Of coarse it’s a jolly dressed up as essential travel to skirt round any possible suggestion that they are entitled.

I haven’t seen my elderly relatives either or the new baby. I’m happy to wait until we are all safe.

Not everyone going to Spain is on a jolly. We were planning to see elderly relatives we haven’t seen since Christmas.*

A lot of posts on doing this. I’d be worried about some taking the virus to elderly relatives.