MASTER Cancel Travel b/c of COVID-19 Questions Thread
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Anonymous
Our company of 10,000 + just grounded ALL travel--this is from the top. No internal travel, no client travel. All client events canceled. Period. People- this is serious stuff. If your company is telling you to travel for work and you are not comfortable, you need to go to HR and get support. |
Anonymous
Tom hanks handled it pretty well. |
Anonymous
What can HR do when the bosses are still going? |
Anonymous
Water would be helpful. |
Anonymous
Haha. I meant I have a large food and water supply and wouldn't need to grocery shop for quite some time. |
Anonymous
You...who don't live in Lombard but for some reason think you'd be living the high-life suddenly have a food+water supply in a Italian region you weren't even aware of prior to this? |
Anonymous
I am not that poster. I was countering your point that people would be stuck INSIDE. I assume I would still have access to my yard. |
Anonymous
Interesting poll
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Anonymous
This means nothing. Define “travel plans” how many people polled...meaningless. |
Anonymous
The previous responses explain why people are emptying out Costco. I read a blog by someone in China who was under quarantine, and they were going out to buy food. They aren't going to make you stay in your house and starve to death. However, obviously, if you have the coronavirus, you should stay in, and if you don't have it and are in a hard hit area, it's probably smart to stay in as much as possible. |
Anonymous
Where do you come up with this crap? Just sit around drumming up scenarios? Like places where the entire economy depends on tourism will keep everybody out. |
Anonymous
Look before posting. Says right in the chart how many were polled. |
Anonymous
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Friends still planning to go to London next week for spring break
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Jkirsh64
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It is worth a call. I think they are offering the change fee waivers for travel booked in March as an incentive for people to book travel without worrying about canceling. I booked a trip on Delta in late Feb. and decided not to travel. I contacted them yesterday and they were very nice and readily agreed to waive my change fee. It did take a while to get through to customer service. I used the on-line chat and just kept it up on my browser. They responded after about an hour and then they took care of it in about 5-10 minutes. |
Anonymous
We've got London tickets too, for next month, and I'm still considering going. I've long been in the "people aren't taking this seriously enough" camp, but at this point, I think the UK is doing a far better job than the USA with this, so our chance of infection is probably lower there than here. I think it's unlikely the US will ban flights coming in from England and, if we absolutely had to stay there for a bit, it would be expensive but not crushing to us. I think we could do a fair amount of our work from England, and we wouldn't lose our jobs. Of course, if they get a blowup in cases like Italy, that changes the equation. Or if it looks like everything would be closed when we get there. If United offered free cancellation on the tickets, maybe I'd reconsider, but at this point we'd be out many thousands of dollars if we don't go, and the risk of going seems pretty much the same as the risk of staying here. I'm more worried about some upcoming family reunions that involve elderly family members. Would be crushing to cancel or for them to skip as this is really likely a "once in a lifetime" or "last time ever" situation for them and some others...but it feels like Russian roulette for them. |