November 2020 international travel rules

Leodogger

Just wondering if anyone has been challenged at the airport, if not, it is perhaps as well to take the risk 

Leodogger

bradders1983 said:

Dont think anyone will actually stop you at the airport tbh. Just have to get there and there is a tiny tiny chance someone stops you on the road.

I suppose if they did you could always say you are on your way to work 

silvercar

CKhalvashi said:

silvercar said:

cubegame said:

Highly unlikely that any travel restriction will be anything but a guideline. Putting a restriction over leaving the country into law will open the floodgates on legal challenges and bring the whole house of cards crashing down on other legally dubious COVID legislation.

The problem is that the guidelines will influence whether people choose to fly, which may have a knock on effect on flights 2 weeks out. eg if you are already abroad, chances are that your return flight is safe, but if people go on the outbound in the next few days, will their return be changed or cancelled? Will airlines take empty planes outbound in order to bring people home. If they don't, then how will those going outbound get home. 

There's also the airline element of not wanting to cancel a flight as it means refunding passengers.

This would naturally mean that a number of routes will operate virtually empty, as the airline has been paid for them.

On long haul, If you run the flights out empty, you can carry your return crew. If you run the flights with passengers you have to crew the flight and either rest the crew overseas to man the return flight or have a second crew available. 

My original return flight was delayed by a day because the airline decided on changing to the former policy. Ironically, I used the opportunity to delay my return by a few days on the grounds that an opportunity to have a holiday should be grasped. Unfortunately the outbound is a couple of days into lockdown, so now I don’t know if it will go ahead.

Leodogger

silvercar said:

There's also the airline element of not wanting to cancel a flight as it means refunding passengers.

This would naturally mean that a number of routes will operate virtually empty, as the airline has been paid for them.

On long haul, If you run the flights out empty, you can carry your return crew. If you run the flights with passengers you have to crew the flight and either rest the crew overseas to man the return flight or have a second crew available. 

My original return flight was delayed by a day because the airline decided on changing to the former policy. Ironically, I used the opportunity to delay my return by a few days on the grounds that an opportunity to have a holiday should be grasped. Unfortunately the outbound is a couple of days into lockdown, so now I don’t know if it will go ahead.

Well we are booked with Ryanair and they seem to know nothing of any changes in flight schedules due to this new lockdown.    No doubt they will leave it and hope if people decide not to take the risk  of being stopped at the airport they will be happy to keep our money anyway which will offset their costs but I think it has been left all up in the air by the government.   No proper guidelines on holidays already booked and whether you should be able to carry on if they are already booked.   Disgusting in my opinion !    

Caz3121

If you booked before March, it is worth checking your travel insurance policy in the event that the flight operates.

Leodogger

Caz3121 said:

If you booked before March, it is worth checking your travel insurance policy in the event that the flight operates.

We only moved our flights to Ryanair when Jet 2 cancelled their winter schedule which was on 12th October (we are waiting for a refund from Jet2 which has still not arrived!), so it would not affect our insurance as it was cancelled at the same time and we have not yet arranged any new insurance as it would not cover us for Coronavirus cancellations.

Ben1989

My problem of 'risking it' is that we're travelling to Heathrow from Merseyside. Quite the drive down the motorway!

bradders1983

Ben1989 said:

My problem of 'risking it' is that we're travelling to Heathrow from Merseyside. Quite the drive down the motorway!

Ist probably still miniscule. And more likely on local roads than the motorways I would suggest.

silvercar

bradders1983 said:

Ben1989 said:

My problem of 'risking it' is that we're travelling to Heathrow from Merseyside. Quite the drive down the motorway!

Ist probably still miniscule. And more likely on local roads than the motorways I would suggest.

I would have thought the most likely place to be stopped is on the roads into the airport.

bradders1983

silvercar said:

bradders1983 said:

Ben1989 said:

My problem of 'risking it' is that we're travelling to Heathrow from Merseyside. Quite the drive down the motorway!

Ist probably still miniscule. And more likely on local roads than the motorways I would suggest.

I would have thought the most likely place to be stopped is on the roads into the airport.

Maybe. I didnt hear of any police roadblock into an airport last time around though, they simply dont have the manpower. Airports would probably complain as well that they would delay passengers and would then miss flights.