Hi guys
Hope everyone is well and doing the best they can in this crazy time.
Here in New Zealand we are in a National lockdown period of 4 weeks. (it maybe extended and probably will but the government has told us 4 at the moment). Only essential workers can work eg. supermarket, Hospital workers, Truck drivers etc.
The rest of us have to stay at home and work from home if we can.
The boarders to the country are shut and no flights are allowed in or out.
we have a trip booked and a paid for for 9-16 October (booked in December last year). This was to be our families first visit to
Disneyland and surprise 5th birthday trip for our girl.
I read a news article yesterday about American Airlines delaying till next year their New flight service destinations and stopping their Auckland-Los Angeles daily flight service till the end of October. I went and checked out their official web page and yep there it is the same information. We are booked to fly American Airlines.
I was debating weather we would make this trip or not depending on the covid-19 as I have been following the news around the world.
I see a lot of people are changing their dates for October/November so I guess the park would be crazy busy.
Anyway sorry to ramble but my thoughts are all over the place a the moment.
I looked on Air New Zealand to see if they are flying there they are but it is an extra $1700 to fly with them, at the time I booked with American Airlines , Air New Zealand were more expensive by over $1000 dollars .
My question is I don't know what to do? do I cancel the trip and wait till October next year? do you think the Airline not flying there will enable me to get my money back or will they give us a flight credit? I guess it would probably depend on if we have a fight credit to to use or not. it was $2997 so is a lot of money.
The price of Christmas flights is insane as i looked at that as a possibility it is an extra $2000 not to mention the price difference of what our accommodation would be which is an extra $965.
I think I have probably answered my own question here guys as I think it will depend on if we get a flight credit or money back.
If we get a flight credit we can book for another date. If we get money back we maybe able to fly with Air New Zealand and keep our dates.
Thanks for letting me ramble guys.