good on them!

nosoupforyou said:

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May 23... sure it could happen still..

I think we get back to work in midApril and travel back in May

Right?

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Man I hope so!

Hate to say it but if the company is refunding a non-refundable fate, we should be very appreciative.

Part of the discounted fare is you accepting the risk that something could **** up your plans.

yukmonkey said:

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Hate to say it but if the company is refunding a non-refundable fate, we should be very appreciative.

Part of the discounted fare is you accepting the risk that something could **** up your plans.

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Generally I agree. But when the company's are getting billions of dollars in bail out and assistance money, that changes things slightly.

Also, most non refundable fares are still refundable if flights are cancelled, hotels closed, etc. Now, if the flight is still operating and the hotel still open, and they're still offering refunds, yes, that's above and beyond the t&c's you signed up for.

Has there been any restrictions to Mexico/Honduras through April?

AggieKO said:

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Has there been any restrictions to Mexico/Honduras through April?

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I thought Honduras shut down their borders? A group from lake travis was stuck their

What are yalls guesses on when international travel opens up?

I'm thinking (hoping) September everyone is back to normal.

September? Man, I sure as hell hope it's sooner than that. If we're still under travel bans through the summer...that's a death blow to the travel/hospitality industry.

I, personally, was hoping things would "normalize" by June 1 (Just an arbitrary date that would give us over 8 weeks of aggressive shut down).

When I said September I meant full-blown, everyone is open for business, international travel.

I think some countries will start to open over the summer.

I have some close kiwi friends who said their tourism people are expecting borders to be open by August 1st.

Australia is starting to flatten the curve but Southern Hemisphere is approaching their own flu season

Spore Ag said:

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Australia is starting to flatten the curve but Southern Hemisphere is approaching their own flu season

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They shut down their borders and didn't even let their own citizens who were overseas back in

FancyKetchup14 said:

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What are yalls guesses on when international travel opens up?

I'm thinking (hoping) September everyone is back to normal.

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If things aren't back to normal sometime in June, we're in real trouble economically.

They expect another wave in the Fall, but at that point, the strategy will have to change from mass lockdown to isolation for vulnerable individuals and perhaps widespread usage of masks. If they spend the next few months manufacturing tests, ventilators, masks, and hydroxychloronique or other effective treatments, hopefully, we'll be able to weather the next wave without killing the economy. But, at some point, the economic cost becomes so great that it cannot be ignored. I think that point is much closer to occurring that public health experts would like to think (understandably so).

Other diseases caused by close contact (flu etc) should be in almost complete free-fall with the lockdown measures used against COVID-19.