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Rebooked three times starting back on March 2020. Watching the news and getting information on several websites we finally made, we hope, our vacation plans for December. This is supposed to be our first retirement vacation but want a full experience and not one with restrictions. My company would send me to the four main islands every three months for the last 10 years so I have lots of hotel and airline reward points. Can’t wait to use them.
We are on Kauai. We played a round of golf today. That pandemic thing surely did hurt the golf courses and many of the other businesses and restaurants on Kauai, more so on Kauai than the other island. Hopefully we will see you later.
Wrong. It is our problem. Especially if your flight is cancelled, you’re paying for a hotel room, car rental and lost vacation days. That’s a problem. There is no way they can have enough staff to cover all the scenarios. And if you happen to die from COVID that could also be a problem, while only a slight chance it’s still happening, you don’t get to choose which version of COVID you get.
It would be nice if you would call a spade a spade here. Airlines took the U.S. taxpayer for truckloads of money during the pandemic under the guise of maintaining their staffing levels (after all, they do enjoy a national security provision in their operations).
And what have we learned? As usual, the airlines duped us. Aircraft cabins have some of the cleanest air passengers will breathe, and if they aren’t requiring well-fitting N95 masks, then masks on planes are theater. Omicron is milder than the common cold, and yet we keep listening to clowns even though hospitalizations and acute illness are not spiking along with + tests. The airlines misused their money and screwed up staffing. Nothing to do with masks or infections.
Please stop the fearmongering of “increase of Covid cases because the useless mask mandate has been eliminated”. The Omicron variant has the same symptoms as the common cold. Whether it’s #Covid, or the common cold, people who are sick should stay home. The American people have put up with the fearmongering and control for over two years. We are over it!!!! If people still want to wear a mask, that’s their right. If people choose not to wear a mask, that too, is their right. If airlines can’t staff appropriately because of #Covid, or the common cold, that’s their problem, not the public’s!
Covid is done. Give it up.All these crews are maskless outside of work.
The only staffing issues are the ones brought on by the CEO’s poor decision making. See Hawaiian Airlines.
Too much CNN I guess? Remember when travel wouldn’t return until 2025?
Jeff, Goldie and edd. Sardine canned airports around people from everywhere. Waiting thirty minutes on the tarmac in an unventilated flying sardine can. A few thousand folks like yourselves who have no regard for immuno compromised and children to young to get vaccine. Yeah. Your words that CV19 is done. Must be listening to a bit too much Fox, no?
Flying SWA SAN to HNL in early May. Because of all I’ve read regarding crowded conditions I looked at our flights. To my surprise, Gotta Get Away fares are still available both coming and going. I know our dates are typically not too busy but fares are incredibly easy to get and inexpensive for only two weeks ahead.
Our hotel was also reasonably priced, and still has rooms, though not the higher tier that we have booked.
Also booked restaurants a couple of months ago and everything we have booked is still available. I guess we’ll see.
Had a Oahu trip planned for the last week in May through first week of June.
Postponed due to price increase for flights.
Hoping for Sept-October trip.
I think that it borders on fraud that the airlines sold so many tickets at “on sale” prices and are unable to provide the service when promised. These “unexpected” difficulties have been predicted for many months.
Our trip is in mid-September. We are traveling for our 30th wedding anniversary. I’m very worried about Covid disruptions. I wish they still required masks so that they would not put staff at risk. I feel bad for airline employees that will be exposed to hundreds of maskless people on a small plane every single day.