[Closed] Booking European holiday for April - would you?

What exactly do YOU think will happen?

Ask BlohardJohnson...

Planes will still be flying. The Pound has already tanked against the Euro. Assuming you're staying with her Dad you have no accommodation issues. I'd just get it booked

Check and see what the Airline says re cancellation in the event they can't fly - surely it would be down to them to refund you if they couldn't. I've just booked to France on the ferry on the 28th March due back 3rd April. I'm not overly worried.

We thought about going to Gent Wevelgem, but it falls that special weekend and TBH I can't be arsed with the potential inconvenience. So we're going to another event earlier in March but are planning to go to the Harz Mountains in June.

I don't think I would take the risk, though probably it will be fine...

Insurance may not cover it, unless it very definitely says it will.

Read your travel insurance very carefully. Ask specifically if Brexit disruption is covered. I have heard, no physical evidence, that Brexit disruption is a specific exclusion.

Father in law unwittingly booked us a family holiday leaving the first flight out of Glasgow after Brexit....

Looked for travel insurance as soon as I found out.

It doesn't exist.

Basically the insurance cos are predicting chaos and don't want to cover it.

Wether or not chaos does happen is another thing.

I had this email from my insurers yesterday:

Impact on Our Services

We are writing to all our UK customers to highlight the potential impact of Brexit to Blue Insurance Limited's services and the impact on your insurance policy.

Blue Insurance Limited is committed to the UK market and plan on continuing to be present in the country after exit day, 29 March 2019.

Currently, we are operating under the EU passporting regime route for our services. Depending on the agreed terms of the withdrawal implementation period, we do not foresee any obstacles to continue using this route or a similar one post Brexit.

If there are no agreed terms of the withdrawal implementation period and we cannot continue to operate under the EU passporting regime, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have in place a Temporary Permission Regime (TPR). The TPR will enable us to continue our activities in the UK for a limited period after Brexit. This limited period will allow us time to register directly with the FCA to continue providing financial services in the UK.

Impact on Your Insurance Policy

Your Travel Insurance Policy is also impacted by Brexit as your Insurer/Underwriter is EEA domiciled. We are actively engaging with your Insurer/Underwriter on their contingency plans in the event of a 'no deal' Brexit. At present, we/they have no concerns regarding the continuation of service.

We will continue to keep you informed of any developments.

We and your Insurer/Underwriter are fully committed to the UK, our continued business, customers and partners and have a commitment to ensure a smooth and seamless transition to the new post Brexit.

I should add - my insurer is Irish (though I bought it through a comparison site).

Planes will still be flying.

Not if we're in "no deal" territory they won't be. You need agreements in place for that, and "agreement" is another word for "deal." No deal = no agreements = no flying.

The unicorns brexit "I'm sure it'll all be fine really" argument that "they" won't let that happen is all well and good, but "they" won't have any choice unless there's international legislation in place to allow us to do so.

^ I concur.

Booked to go to Amsterdam in late April but will be an absolute ball ache if we crash out with no deal. All the alternatives (ferries/train/bus) will get booked up so quickly it will be chaos.

have already booked ferry to France for April. mrs S competing in the world Duathlon champs in Spain. Even with no deal brexit, I cant envisage a complete halt to movement. there may well be inconvenience, but at least with the Plymouth/Santander route it's not quite so busy with haulage as Calais/Dover.

I seem to recall Ryanair flights have a special Brexit clause.

Trying to find the relevant info but I'm sure last month the EC adopted a "contingency action plan" for no deal which, amongst other things (financial services etc), agrees access for UK airlines to to EU airports for 12 months (9 for goods).
Iirc UK airlines will have no rights to operate in Europe (which i think is a pita for IAG owned carriers)

All the airlines have to do to fix this is have headquarters (and or?) the major shareholder being in the EU though so it's not that difficult. (See jet2 Europe, now based in Austria)

Your bigger problem comes with flying outside the EU since currently all the agreements are in place with the EU and the third country, the UK can't negotiate any agreements with those third countries until we (a) know wtf is going on and (b) aren't actually in the EU anymore, (b will doubtless happen before a).

Book your flights with a European airline to go to Europe, a US one for USA etc, oh and a UK one for internal uk travel...

But it's all fine, the Germans want to sell us cars so they'll give in and let us have our cake and eat it.

Is this really a thing, we were going to book a holiday for Easter and it genuinely never even crossed my mind!
Does that mean if we end up in a cottage in Blighty I'm going to have someone shouty next door who would have normally ****ed off to Benidorm?

I seem to recall Ryanair flights have a special Brexit clause.

In the case of no deal we'll instantly run all flights late and massively hike prices for uk based purchases, reapply credit card booking fees and generally screw you over since all your consumer protection just vanished like a fart in the wind?

Is this really a thing, we were going to book a holiday for Easter and it genuinely never even crossed my mind!

Maybe ask your MP....
Insurance was something that I hadn't thought about but that looks interesting, no EHIC potentially and the chance of spending the first 3 days in the Lorry park on the way to Dover are all very real possibilities at the moment.

In the event of a no deal Brexit UK registered airlines will still be able to fly into and out of the EU. What they won't be able to do is make internal flights inside the EU. This was part of the statement made by the EU when they announced measures for a no deal Brexit, I believe this is the case until the end of the year.

Ryanair are an Irish airline and won't be affected, I believe Easyjet switched to being EU base last year. No idea what the others have done.

I just booked for Tarifa in May. Gibraltar is the most convenient airport, but I suspect the border will take a good few hours to get through so we're flying to Malaga instead. An extra 90 minutes drive.

We booked flights at the weekend with wizz air for april. Will have to quiz them about no deal.. but as I'm going to see the in laws maybe I'm kinda hoping it gets cancelled.

I've booked my usual boozy week in Benidorm from April 16th, I'll let you know if my plans are thwarted.
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They won't, the world won't come to an end whatever bollocks happens March 30th 👍👍

Long weekend in Belgium planned from 4th April. Travelling on Eurotunnel, I'll be prepared for a proper delay, but I suspect I'll know if that's going to be a problem before I set off.

booked outbound on the 28th March back the 2nd April just to make sure that when they hand out the new passports i will get an EU one

They won’t, the world won’t come to an end whatever bollocks happens March 30th

Phew no effect on the stability of the core, that sums up where the UK sits in the world order.
I'm sure it's about time to suggest the grown ups will be sorting all of this out

Ignore the Brexit referendum regulars. They have scared themselves to such an extent they are quite hysterical and totally irrational on any topic with a Brexit theme.

We have booked a week cycling on Gran Canaria from the 31st March. And I have absolutely no concern of Brexit, deal or no deal, having any negative impact on the flights or holiday.

Ignore the media hype, and the daft doomsday remoaners and just book your hols as you normally would.

And I have absolutely no concern of Brexit, deal or no deal, having any negative impact on the flights or holiday.

Done any research on your insurance, health care options, airline etc or is this just blind faith?

My eldest is traveling to the UK from France on a school trip in early April on a UK passport. I can't wait to see if he gets stung upon re-entering the EU

Does that mean if we end up in a cottage in Blighty I’m going to have someone shouty next door who would have normally **** off to Benidorm?

Yes, a brexit voting shouty, being shouty about not being able to travel abroad on the cheap and getting tanked up on cheap booze this year.

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And I have absolutely no concern of Brexit, deal or no deal, having any negative impact on the flights or holiday.

Done any research on your insurance, health care options, airline etc or is this just blind faith?

I not waste effort trying to ease your anxiety over Brexit; its clear your totally irrational and unable to even consider your wrong about this topic.

But April is not too long away. And I hope for your sake it enables you to reflect, and then take a step back from your present unhealthy fixation on the doom and gloom you have convinced yourself is inevitable.

Of course

I normaly go to Spain in april/may to see my old man for a week or two.

I'm holding off booking anything yet, insurance complications, pet passport complications, potential travel chaos and of course artificially inflated prices and more overbooking problems on planes...

It's clear mooman is living in moo moo land, the only assurances are coming from the EU..

The UK Gov doesn't seem to be reciprocating.
Professional flannel David Davis has recently cited the tired old mantra that we'll get a good deal because the EU are scared they won't get the £39bn divorce settlement with no deal.

Well guess what, brain trust? If we don't honour financial commitments we'll never get any international independent trade deals that do anything other than completely screw UK tax payers over.

Bravo.

As expected the regulars from the echo chamber that is the EU referendum topic are spewing out their anxieties & nonsense ... but April will be here pretty soon. Although no doubt they will have another Brexit anxiety to obsess about after that😂

But won't the EU be completely full of Turks by April? Nowhere to put your deck chair!!

I’m sure it’s about time to suggest the grown ups will be sorting all of this out

Well whoever sorts things grown up or not, things will be sorted.Its in everyones interest to keep people travelling so after all the political posturing thats what'll happen.

First things first. Even if we leave with no deal at all, the EU has already declaredthey’ll keep the skies and the airports open as part of their “no deal” contingency plan for 12 months after Brexit, and continue to recognise aviation safety certificates for nine. So - even in the worst-case event of no deal - we’ll have the whole of 2019 and the first few months of 2020 to fly to Europe as normal while the politicians thrash out a proper long-term deal on flights. Which means booking a holiday this summer doesn’t need to be put off just because the Brexit negotiations are still up in the air. The bit go the negotiation that affects how we fly to Europe this summer is already a done deal.

From 2021 you will (probably) need a new document, the European Travel Information and Authorisation Scheme (ETIAS), to travel to Europe. But that won’t affect anyone’s plans this year or next.

And finally, if we leave with no deal, the government advises you to make sure your passport is less than ten years old, and has at least six months left on it, before you travel to Europe.

That doesn't seem so hard. Regarding health insurance companies will still want to sell policies, they'll have appropriate products, just buy one.
Anyway I'll bookmark this thread and come April if I'm stuck in rainy Cardiff not enjoying sunny spain I'll come back on it and eat some humble pie 👍

The main thing is we will be leaving the European Common Aviation Area and the EU–US Open Skies Agreement. The former being open skies between EEA counties pretty much allowing any airline in the agreement to operate anywhere in the area even if not originating from their home country, and the latter is freedom for any EU airline to fly to US from anywhere in EU and vice versa with additional benefits for US airlines to operate ongoing flights in EU.

It really affects who can operate what from where. Generally just UK flights into EU won't be an issue. UK airlines operating flights within the EU not from UK might be affected, but it's mainly EasyJet and they've relocated to EU anyway, and RyanAir as said are EU based anyway. Flights to US if operated by a non UK airline that would have been allowed under EU-US agreement, might be an issue and likewise US airlines wanting ongoing flights from UK to EU.

Reality is things will get sorted, but it will cost everyone a lot more. At the very least the pound will still be shit if not worse.

Ironically, one of the issues could be that this kind of uncertainty takes down your tour operator or airline...

Regarding health insurance companies will still want to sell policies, they’ll have appropriate products, just buy one.

You see here lies the problem, they will want to do that it's just they have no idea what it needs to cover at the moment, they way it's being played they might not know on March 28th.
This seems to be the bit the it will be all right brigade seem to be missing.