To have booked holiday flights for summer holidays?

[Gottalovesummer]

I've just booked flights for our family holiday in Europe for August. Anyone else planning ahead? Surely we'll all be back to normality by then?

I’m not even considering booking flights for next January. To be fair they’re pretty expensive flights (Australia to Europe) but I’m not risking it.

Don’t count on it being over by then. I wouldn’t book anything at the moment. You’d also have to be very careful to read the terms of your travel insurance.

I'm booked for august next year and I'm worried 🤦‍♀️ it's our first holiday abroad as a family EVER and I'm praying the world can get a grip on this virus over the next 500 days.

We have a holiday booked in Corfu in June. Booked it weeks ago before all this cropped up. I am getting increasingly pessimistic, however I have taken out travel insurance that covers cancellation.

Nope. Think many airlines are on borrowed time so strong risk of losing money unless you have good supplier failure cover...

I definitely wouldn't do it.

There's not really any clear government guidance on travel is there, apart from travelling to infected areas. Maybe they need to give guidance as lots of people see still travelling all over the place.

We've got holiday booked for Turkey in July and need to pay balance in a few weeks. We were talking about it today and decided to go ahead as if it was still going to happen. We have annual travel insurance policy and a lot of companies (we are going with Jet 2) let you change the dates for things like this so we could postpone maybe till October half term, My worry also is I have elderly parents so wouldn't want to go away if they needed help x

I was reading earlier that insurance companies are removing the travel disruption clauses from their new policies - doesn't apply if you've already got a policy with it in though. You still run the risk that the flights could still be going though OP so you could potentially lose out. You would hope that with 5 months to go though it will have all died down by then before it reappears next winter

We booked our US holiday for this August ,last year .
Have also booked Berlin for October . Not worried .. yet

I'm due to fly in a month to the canaries for a week and still intend going unless flights are cancelled. Another booked for September and will go unless flights are cancelled.

Adult DS is off to Amsterdam for the weekend tomorrow.

Other than following the advice, we are continuing as normal.

Got a email yesterday to say if already got Disruption Extension cover then I'm covered, alternately as an existing customer I can add on. I have annual cover with Staysure. Not sure if it means new customers won't get opportunity to have this cover though.

@wouldyouadamandeveit my ds just flew to Amsterdam this morning for the weekend , he said their flight was pretty much empty so he got to spread out over a row of 3 so he was happy.
Museums etc.. are all closed though

@Fluffybutter yeah shame about the museums. I know he'd booked the Anne Frank museum and a cheese museum . Still lots of other stuff to see though, so hopefully won't spoil the trip!