Booked our honeymoon months ago, now scared!

kittykat7210

We merrily booked our honeymoon back in August for June 2019, 2 weeks in Tenerife! We were very excited until someone said that brexit could mean we wouldn’t be able fly and we’d lose the £3500 we paid for our honeymoon. Now we are incredibly worried! We’ve worked really hard to pay for our honeymoon and it will be the first time we’ve gone abroad together in the 5 years we’ve been a couple.

What’s the likelihood of not being able to go on our honeymoon? Is there any insurance we could pay for that might protect us from losing all our money?

PompeyPete

10s of 1,000s have holidays or flights booked for after 29 March.

Dare the Politicians pull such a dirty trick......doubt it. But don't let me try and tell you to ignore all the scaremongering coming from the team that lost a Democratic Referendum, but refused to accept the result.

andrewf75

I really wouldn’t be worried in the slightest. Even in an absolute worst case scenario any issues with flights would be long cleared up by June.

There is much to fear with Brexit, but not this kind of stuff. Very little stops flights and trade between countries. Businesses rightly fear this becoming less efficient and more expensive, but there is no reason for you to worry you won’t be able to go on holiday!

eDicky

kittykat7210 wrote: »

someone said that brexit could mean we wouldn’t be able fly and we’d lose the £3500 we paid for our honeymoon. Now we are incredibly worried!

We will all have a lot more to worry about than that, if such a situation is a reality 2+ months after March 29th..! Relax and look forward to your trip.

Voyager2002

I don't think you should be worried.


The legal arrangements under which flights operate at present will come to an end in March. There may be some disruption, but after a couple of months I expect that some new arrangements will have been cobbled together. While the only honest answer is that nobody knows and no insurance is possible, it is hard to believe that all flights would cease to operate. Some kind of delay, schedule change or even an indirect journey might be more probable.

leylandsunaddict

Did you book a package holiday? If so you wouldn't lose your money.

You couldn't buy insurance to cover a known eventuality. Some policies that cover consequential loss have already got a clause in them saying they won't be responsible for consequential loss in the event of no aviation agreement.

agrinnall

From the current state of political confusion in this country at the moment I very much doubt if anything will happen on 29th March, other than an extension to Article 50 to allow further activity to take place, whether that's a renegotiation of the Withdrawal Agreement, a General Election or a second referendum.

duchy

What a horrible thing to say.
Of course it's nonsense , but if it was a "friend" who said this I'd be wondering why they felt the need to upset you.

There's already an extension in place for aviation agreements despite what the sulking anti Brexit mob would lead you to believe.

leylandsunaddict

I know the UK have recently signed open skies agreement with both the US and Canada. They also have also signed bilateral agreements replacing the EU system with Albania, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Montenegro, Morocco and Switzerland. Why would those be necessary if the ECAA agreement had been extended? It appears the ERA aren't aware of it being extended either.

kittykat7210

Thank you everyone for your replies, yes it’s a package holiday, all from TUI and their platinum service (whatever that means)

It was a coworker who told me we might not be able to fly, in my head I know that the amount of tourism money lost for the countries really wouldn’t be worth it to not allow brits in. It’s just worrying that no one can give a definitive answer 😔

phatbear

kittykat7210 wrote: »

It’s just worrying that no one can give a definitive answer 😔

I can give you a definitive answer.

Youre flight/holiday will go ahead as expected worse case scenario there may be slight delays at immigration, although this is highly unlikely.

However people should be more worried if they drive a fiat/skoda/peugeot etc as its a well known fact that they will stop working.post brexit