Anyone booked a post Brexit holiday?

[Jellybellymoo]

We are flying out to Tenerife (hopefully) on the 30th March, the day after brexit! We booked this ages ago with a travel agent so we are fully insured should something go wrong!
I have read conflicting reviews that there is a contingency plans to continue to allow flights to the EU post brexit. I have also heard all planes could be grounded. I'm not massively knowledgeable on the whole thing so was just wondering what other people's views were?

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Just booked for early June. Not in the least bit concerned.

Booked for July and with 2 dogs so not sure what will happen about Pet Passports but not concerned about getting to France.

Munich in June and canary Islands in July. Not worried at all.

Going in may and not worried, can I ask why you think Brexit is going to effect holiday plans ?

You aren’t fully insured in case anything goes wrong
If no agreements are in place by then and planes can’t fly that may not be covered by insurance
Hopefully nobody’s Holiday will be affected but it’s impossible to say for certain at the moment and the people spouting rubbish along the lines of “Europe needs our tourism “ and “ they won’t let it happen” ( whoever “they” might be) have no basis in fact for that.
I’m booking nothing after April for now just in case.
Fingers crossed that people who have booked will have no issues and be able to enjoy their holidays

Pleased to hear non concerning reviews on this! Because we have left the EU with no deal appearantly it leaves us with concerns that they may ground flights and not allow travellers from UK in or out of EU. Could be scaremongering but just had me worried about our holiday! X

I'm booked to Zante for August and I'm not concerned at all

I've heard if you book a package holiday which is ABTA protected then you are insured should brexit effect the flights. Travel agents have expressed concerns about bankruptcy because of it, fingers crossed nobody's holiday will be affected but it is a bit of a worry xx

Traveling with pets may change - you will need (in the event of no deal) to get you pet tested for rabies antibodies at least one month after the vaccination. You can the travel 3 months later. You will also need a health certificate from your vet issued no more than 10 days before travel.

So if you want to take your pets, best to get a move on!

www.gov.uk/guidance/pet-travel-to-europe-after-brexit

Immediately after, I'd be worried. Not in May or June, but in the few days after, while they are putting new systems into place, I can imagine delays. If it happens in March, who knows, it might not happen.

We are driving to Germany (from Italy). Dh and kids are EU citizens- I won't be if Brexit goes ahead. I suppose the worst that can happen is they turn me back at the border!

Recently- fingers crossed for you, when are you travelling? I'm now regretting having holiday booked end of March! It's our first abroad holiday with 2 small kids I just hope it's not affected as I'm already anticipating the travel to be stressful as it is 😂

I don't think that it'll be a case of one thing for EU citizens and another for British citizens I think it'll be really long queues for everybody.

Not until Easter.

jelly who have you heard FROM that you are insured if flights can’t take off due to licensing/Insurance issues?
That’s my point - unless there is an official statement from The EU as to what will definitely happen to flights/Ferry crossings etc then we simply don’t know what the position will be
Tour operators can use their knowledge to say what the most likely scenario is but that’s all

From what I have read, the European Commission has stated that flights will continue Deal or No Deal. The whole country is not going to grind to a halt with planes not allowed in or out of the UK is it?

I haven't finalised my holiday plans yet, but may have to travel back on Brexit day. I'm not worried about it, I don't think the EU will want to keep us all as hostages.

Thank you, we are going on a cruise from Southampton, is it possible for this to be affected also ?

Probably not but I suppose it depends on where the ship is registered, how clogged ports get and various other things we can’t predict at the moment

It's not a case of the EU holding us hostage, more that the whole legal framework governing cross-border travel relies on us being an EU member, and the transition period to a withdrawal deal is meant to be spent replacing that framework with a new one that assumes we are a non-member.

It's incredibly complex and no way it can be done by March. For example, some Eurostar drivers have British licenses/qualifications and some French. Under EU law the two nations recognise each other's qualifications so Eurostar does not need to retrain them (as they would if, for example, an Australian qualified train driver came and started working for them). Once we cease to be an EU member the French authorities will no longer automatically recognise the rights of British-qualified drivers to drive trains in France so the company, Eurostar, needs to decide whether to continue running trains "illegally" with British drivers, or to seek some kind of clarification/permission from the French authorities.

Doesn't sounds like that much of a big deal but imagine this example replicated a thousand times across each industry - e.g. planes can fly into the US from the UK because the US has a mutual recognition agreement with the EU on flight safety standards. Once we cease to be an EU member we are no longer covered by that agreement. Will the US authorities still recognise and accept flights from the UK? Perhaps, but legally they are no longer allowed to until the US government rules otherwise. This kind of complexity is why No Deal is a terrible risk. Confusion everywhere and the government seems to be asking businesses to "carry on as normal" even though many of their normal activities could now be illegal in multiple jurisdictions.

Me!

Two!

It will be fine, honestly

What grimupnorth said

Spain for October HT. We could have booked for the Easter holidays but we're concerned about delays then.

DH is traveling back from skiing on 30th March.

Thank you for all advice/feedback! I contacted a credible insurance company today and they have covered us completely if something goes wrong with flights taking off due to brexit! So I guess that's a little sigh of relief! However the company I have spoken to did say that there shouldn't be any interupptions to flights as they already have an agreement to allow flights until 2020 where a new deal will need to be negotiated. I am pretty clueless when it comes to politics but I guess I'll just keep my fingers crossed!

Kiki- are you flying out on the 30th also? Xx

However the company I have spoken to did say that there shouldn't be any interupptions to flights as they already have an agreement to allow flights until 2020 where a new deal will need to be negotiated.
I'd be interested to see a link to that deal ....