Coronavirus: Oman, Norway, Cyprus and Czech Republic block UK travellers

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• Bob says:

  12 Mar12 March 20:55

  6 posts today!

  🙂

  • Rob says:

    12 Mar12 March 21:03

    Doesn’t make us any money unfortunately – ad revenues are down about 30% per page due to lack of competition for Google slots and BA has pulled their sale ads!

    • Russ 😷 says:

      12 Mar12 March 21:10

      Anything we can do to assist? Give us a clue…

    • Bob says:

      12 Mar12 March 21:30

      You are not alone.

      I have a loss of 100% of my revenue since the crisis of end of 2008.
      And I have not recovered since then, meaning 11 years now.

      That’s how neo-liberalism work if I understand well.

      I have learnt to live in a different way.

      😉

      • Shoestring says:

        12 Mar12 March 21:32

        RBS shares – never a good bet 🙂

        • Bob says:

          12 Mar12 March 21:38

          Oh Yeah!!!!

    • Chas says:

      12 Mar12 March 21:48

      It may not be much of a consolation in the short term Rob, but I suspect that your exceptional coverage of this crisis is significantly growing your loyal readership, which will be even more attractive to your advertisers in the medium term.

    • Peter K says:

      12 Mar12 March 22:25

      I bought some ear plugs for £3.34 on Amazon using your affiliate link if that’s any consolation 😁

      • Sloth says:

        12 Mar12 March 23:01

        Should have rounded it up to a tenner with some hand sanitiser…

        • Novice says:

          13 Mar13 March 00:28

          That is if you can get hold of the hand sanitiser you mean.

          Also if you do find it, its way more than a tenner atm as humans have just discovered hand hygiene.

  • Jill (Kinkell) says:

    12 Mar12 March 21:13

    and all very welcome in keeping us informed and up to speed.. I’m sitting it out until next week before taking action ( or inaction) with our trip to Monaco. So far flights and hotel etc still operating, but I’d rather re schedule …at no extra cost…..or get a refund. Still, a week to go, and it could all change.

• Jack Taylor says:

  12 Mar12 March 21:13

  Does that mean our flight to Oman will go ahead or won’t go ahead?! The ban comes into effect on the 15th, we land on the 14th 🤔

• James T says:

  12 Mar12 March 21:26

  Thank you very much for all of these updates – great job!

• stevenhp1987 says:

  12 Mar12 March 21:37

  Going to Oslo over Easter… Hopefully this isn’t extended but I’m not holding out much hope.

  • Emma says:

    12 Mar12 March 21:43

    We’re due to fly to Oslo 7th April and I can’t see is going.

    Now just need to find out who covers us! Insurance, credit card or BA as it’s a package through them. Guessing we’ll have to sit tight until nearer the time to see if BA extends its cancellation/amendment policy.

• Cal says:

  12 Mar12 March 21:52

  Rob, quick question but what about Heathrow Express? I’m guessing the Fixed Day tickets won’t be anyway refundable?

  • Rob says:

    12 Mar12 March 22:09

    Honestly got no idea but probably not, agreed.

    • Stu N says:

      12 Mar12 March 22:19

      If you’re fairly sure you will use them on a specific date worth seeing if you can change them.

      Hex may be different but you can change Advance tickets on Avanti and LNER for £10 change fee despite a “No refunds” policy. I’ve done this for some work travel I had booked for this week. l picked days I am very likely to be travelling on in May if situation has improved. If not a £20 change fee to preserve some value on £200 of tickets might be wise, then again it might be throwing good money after bad. We shall see.

      • Anuj says:

        13 Mar13 March 02:17

        If you use Cross Country to book tickets for any train company you can change advance tickets for free and just pay fare difference.

      • John says:

        13 Mar13 March 05:42

        Advance tickets can be changed anywhere for a £10 fee. That does not conflict with a “no refunds” rule!

        If you book on Crosscountry’s site you can change for free, but you can’t select seats on non-XC trains, and you have to use e-tickets (which can be displayed on a screen or printed, but not at a station on orange card).

• DanLondon says:

  12 Mar12 March 22:14

  Sorry to hear about the loss revenue Rob. We are all behind your venture and let us know if we can do anything to boost your business 🙂

  • Peter K says:

    12 Mar12 March 22:30

    Use affiliate links, go the the desktop site rather than mobile, get credit cards via the links.

    • Richard Branson says:

      12 Mar12 March 22:42

      If you would like to contribute to my business I’d be eternally grateful. Rob may be miffed about a 30% drop in revenue but in comparison to me, he’s one of the lucky ones

      • Rob says:

        12 Mar12 March 23:42

        Didn’t say I was miffed! Just mentioned it in passing. No-one is being sent on unpaid leave!

        • Peter K says:

          13 Mar13 March 13:55

          Um Rob, I think “Richard Branson’s” comment was a joke 😁

• MarianC says:

  12 Mar12 March 22:22

  Hi Rob.
  Guatemala announced yesterday it will ban the entry of citizens of European countries.
  I’m due to travel there in June…maybe it will help some other readers of yours.

• Waribai says:

  12 Mar12 March 22:34

  Had a mileage run planned for 10-15 April
  LHR-OSL on BA then OSL-DOH-BKK on QR. Two separate PNRs
  Now Qatar are accepting transit passengers but I’m guessing I won’t get to OSL. There was also a schedule change that I never accepted on QR. So, maybe I can get both tickets refunded???

  • chris says:

    13 Mar13 March 00:37

    if your Bangkok ticket is a return; maybe you can’t take it as you cant get back …

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