MBL: Travel and coronavirus
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The UK government has urged Britons to avoid non-essential travel to anywhere in the world for 30 days to tackle the spread of coronavirus. Where does that leave people and their holiday plans? And what about future holidays?
Joining presenter Louise Cooper to share their views:
Simon Calder, Travel Editor at The Independent. Charlie Campbell, Senior Policy Adviser at the Association of British Insurers. Gary Rycroft, solicitor at Joseph A Jones & Co LLP.
Email questions to moneybox@bbc.co.uk
Producer: Darin Graham Editor: Richard Vadon
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| 0:47.2 | Welcome to the download of Moneybox Live, the programme about your money. |
| 0:54.5 | The British government is now advising against all but essential travel to anywhere in the world for the next 30 days. |
| 0:59.2 | Overnight, millions of British households are looking at their overseas holiday plans and wondering where this decision leaves them. Well, if that's you, we want your questions. |
| 1:04.9 | So please do get in touch via email, Moneybox at BBC.co.com. or tweet at Moneybox. Well, let's hear first for Miriam. |
| 1:16.4 | She is a freelance documentary maker and had been due to fly to America tonight with Norwegian Airlines. |
| 1:23.6 | My situation is I was invited very kindly by University in America to come and deliver a talk, actually. |
| 1:31.8 | And so I was supposed to be flying out with Norwegian Airlines. |
| 1:35.4 | I booked the ticket and I was supposed to be reimbursed by the university. |
| 1:40.0 | Obviously, I can't fly to the US. |
| 1:41.9 | Literally cannot fly to the US. |
| 1:46.7 | And yet, the flight appears to still be going ahead according to Norwegian Airlines, which means that they refer to my decision |
| 1:53.5 | not to fly as my choice. And therefore, I was telling me that the ticket I've bought is non-refundable, |
| 2:02.5 | that they're waiving the fee to change the ticket, which is apparently the kind of gesture of goodwill. |
| 2:07.6 | But if I want to change the ticket, the dates that are available are all an additional |
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