Flying on Holiday to Around Brexit Date. Would you?

[KennDodd]

I haven't booked yet. I have contacted my insurance company and travel agent (haven't asked airline) and asked if I would be covered if my holiday was disrupted/cancelled due to planes not flying or other chaos. They have both basically said they don't know. I assume EU consumer law would also no longer apply?

AIBU to write to fucking twat Dominic Raab and ask him to personally guarantee (with financial compensation from his own pocket) that I will not lose money and my holiday won't be disrupted?

I want to book an Easter holiday but this has made me consider whether to wait before booking

Yeah, we fouled up and booked our honeymoon for 4 April. We’re flying to the states. I’m just praying a transitional period is negotiated to be honest.

And I'm not remotely timid - I flew to Australia shortly after flights resumed following 9/11 - but I don't want to piss my money up the wall. I'd rather spend it on something that I know will happen rather than spend the next six months worrying that it won't. So far, after more than two years of supposed Brexit negotiations, we've made fuck all progress, so it will almost certainly go down to the wire.

You people are hilarious. I love a good Brexit Bogeyman thread.

KC, even assuming Brexit will be a tremendous success, there just isn’t the time or the parliamentary draftsmen in the world to reconstruct all our intra-national agreements in six months. Or frankly in 6 years...

"KC225" me too. 😂

You people are hilarious. I love a good Brexit Bogeyman thread.

Did you not notice how merely changing the timetables fucked up the trains? For months. What makes you think Brexit (which, let’s remember, hasn’t been finalised yet) will go smoothly? I’m sure things will settle down, but I really wouldn’t count on everything running smoothly on 30 March. Or for a little while afterwards.

I would and I am

Anyone fancy a little bet or at least a thought experiment?

There are four of us, and we often travel to SE Asia for the Easter holidays. Would one of the posters who is utterly confident that "everything will most definitely be fine" be willing to buy us a holiday to (say) Hong Kong?

If flights go ahead without disruption, I'll pay [the hypothetical you] the cost of the holiday plus (say) 20% on top, whilst if the converse happens, you lose the money? Obviously to be a proper bet, in the event of flight cancellations leading to refund of ticket fares, you would have to forgo this refund, perhaps donating it to a charity of your choice (e.g. Darren Grimes' appeal fund?).

It is a sure-fire winner for you, right? You will most definitely make a tidy percentage on top of your initial outlay because there is no possibility of flight disruption due to No Deal. And in the infinitesimal likelihood of post-Brexit travel being less than perfect, although you would lose your bet, your money would still be going to a good cause.

TheElementsSong

Tempted. Very tempted...

I'm chancing it with cheap flights booked for next year. Not too concerned for the summer since I reckon that it would be sorted by then. My outward flights on 30th March might be a problem - I won't be rushing to book my accommodation until much nearer the date for that one!