Our extended fam has flights booked to Europe in September.
I Just found out it's with Qatar, if I'd known I might've suggested going via Singapore or Thailand. I know you can get refunds if a flight is cancelled due to war, anyone know if you can get a refund because a war started after you booked?
thank you that is very helpful :|
Whoosh
Nor are there leaves on the vine :(
Qatar is not at war
Iran attacked US bases
What war? Trump just announced a ceasefire.
Nothing is fine. What Trump says does not matter. he announced it and Iran attacked Israel.
Of course we can rely on trump for a calm and measured resolution to this crisis
and to defend / enable / abet the gutless genocide still being perpetrated by Israel on innocents in Gaza. No weapons,food,shelter or future. "Gotta clean up Juniors building site ASAP so they can build the greatest resort the world has ever seen."
Yeah the 12-Day War, as history will come to call it, was just single handedly ended by Trump and there is going to be peace in the Middle East from now on. OP needs to pay more attention to Truth Social.
*single handedly started and ended by Trump
The Yanks have been actively involved militarily (soldiers,pilots missiles and 500lb bombs etc) since Mental Yahoo grovelled in the White House. Israel will keep stealing land form hereon in.Law to them is the same as Trump. Meant for others.
Certainly can't be referring to the Ukraine war either. Trump ended that on his first day in office.
More chance of dying in a car crash on the way to the airport than being shot down in a commercial passenger plane.
Still a non zero chance
Yeah but a chance worth cancelling your holiday over?
chance of winning 200m powerball is not zero either lol
I'm not worried about getting shot down, what I want to avoid is my kid who has a chronic health condition having to do a 60 odd hour trip to get there as opposed to 24 - as happened to me last time I came home from europe (when isreal bombed somehwere else)
Usually the re-routing time is minimally different from the normal flight, not days longer.
I flew from Australia to France on the eve of the Gulf War and we were re-routed. It only took an extra two hours.
That flight we had to make an emergency landing in Tashkent, due to a fire alarm in the plane. Singapore Airlines had to send another plane from Singapore, so we ended up in transit for 60 hours, with one telephone line out of the country, but that's another story.
I wouldn't drive a car through Iran at the moment either.
Of course not, it would be a safer journey on a train
If the airline cancels the flight, then you get a refund. You're still bound by the ticket permissions as per normal.
Nah man, just take a selfie in between those rockets mid-air. 1000+ likes
youll be fine mate
Heh
what war?
I'm just extrapolating from Iran bombing qatar
Trump let them shoot off 5 harmless flares to save a bit of face and the rest of that fable is fabricated BS.
Wow, didn't expect this from you.
@xslasherzz: Why?
That the USA has allowed Iran, post their cease fire deal, to create some aerial kerfuffle, for the regime to save face. If you start believing half the shit that Trump says you'll get caught in the vortex of MAGAmania.
@Protractor: @Protractor I meant that in a good way, reading through my original comment, it could be read in negative tone.
Nah, just thought it was great that we didn’t see “oh no WW3, end of the world, let’s panic” from everyone.
would have recommend you fly the other way (through usa to Europe) but the earth is flat and u will fly off the face of the earth!
I'd sooner fly over a possibly active warzone than go to the US.
Amazing this is even upvoted. Have a few colleagues resigned recently and moved to US for work. They seemed fine and happy.
So why are you still here, not in the US?
@nned2say: So if I say something good about a country? I have to move there?
US ain’t bad, but Australia is better, so here I am.
Why don’t you respond and ask the person I responded to, why is the person still here and not in active war zone?
It seems like the brain just goes on break and stops working whenever there’s a discussion about US.
@xslasherzz: I never said the US is good or bad—I simply asked why you didn’t go there. Ironically, while you criticize others for shutting down intellectually when discussing the US, you seem to do the same
If you transit through the USA they can still bounce you. If you are going that way I would do a stopover in Canada.
Cathay Pacific through Hong Kong seems a safe bet, that part of the world seems super unlikely to have any kind of intra-island regional conflict break out unexpectedly.
Right?
Hi, I also booked to the middle east from Greece. I booked it before the latest War. My flight was cancelled and i will be getting a refund. I hope to rebook whilst i am in Greece
Not a great situation but I doubt that the airline will give you a refund unless they cancel the flight. Airlines take the threat of conflict, volcano, & storms extremely seriously & routinely divert away from trouble. I suspect that you will be fine. Flights to Europe once traversed Ukrainian airspace but no longer - due to the conflict with Russia. Enjoy your European holiday.
If there is an issue then Qatar will divert to somewhere else.
There is no "war" going on.
Just constant and escalating, reciprocating bombing, killing and destruction.
I doubt that will be a justification to cancel flights.
It has been going on for more than a year now …
Chances of being hit are closer to zero than in your commute to the airport.
Chances of flighting being annoyingly cancelled are much higher, but by September it's very unlikely for Iran to be firing on the bases in Qatar still.
If war interferes with any of your planes activities, I am positive that some journalist or political mouth piece will publish a soundbite referring to your incident.
Don't think you get to cancel transport because you think something might happen and expect to incur no penalty.
There is no war in Ba Sing Se :)