Comments on: Consumer Travel Alliance: 73 percent would fly with the flu, changes too difficult and costly http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/consumer-travel-alliance-73-percent-would-fly-with-the-flu-changes-too-difficult-and-costly/ The last honest travel site Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/consumer-travel-alliance-73-percent-would-fly-with-the-flu-changes-too-difficult-and-costly/comment-page-1/#comment-17316 Robert Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:56:32 +0000 http://www.consumertraveler.com/?p=21224#comment-17316 This is only half the story. What do you do if you leave home and feel fine and then get the flu while you are traveling? Do you stay in a hotel an extra few days to get well? What if the hotel is sold out? Who will pay the extra hotel cost? Will travel insurance cover that extra cost? (I don't think so). What do you do when you run of clean clothes? If you get sick while traveling, you still need to go to a restaurant to eat. You're room still needs to be cleaned by hotel staff. It's easy at home, but it is much more difficult to "self-quarentine" when on the road. In this case there may be no choice but to travel on an airplane even though your sick. This is only half the story. What do you do if you leave home and feel fine and then get the flu while you are traveling? Do you stay in a hotel an extra few days to get well? What if the hotel is sold out? Who will pay the extra hotel cost? Will travel insurance cover that extra cost? (I don’t think so). What do you do when you run of clean clothes? If you get sick while traveling, you still need to go to a restaurant to eat. You’re room still needs to be cleaned by hotel staff. It’s easy at home, but it is much more difficult to “self-quarentine” when on the road. In this case there may be no choice but to travel on an airplane even though your sick.

]]> By: Carrie Charney http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/consumer-travel-alliance-73-percent-would-fly-with-the-flu-changes-too-difficult-and-costly/comment-page-1/#comment-17313 Carrie Charney Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:19:27 +0000 http://www.consumertraveler.com/?p=21224#comment-17313 Can we really trust Trip Advisor's report on its results? ;-) Can we really trust Trip Advisor’s report on its results? ;-)

]]> By: Adam Bates http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/consumer-travel-alliance-73-percent-would-fly-with-the-flu-changes-too-difficult-and-costly/comment-page-1/#comment-17305 Adam Bates Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:25:38 +0000 http://www.consumertraveler.com/?p=21224#comment-17305 I don't think people realize if you're traveling abroad, there is a possibility of being quarantined buy foreign governments and unfortunately you have to abide by thier laws and health preventions. Reports from China, India, Japan and some European countries have travelers who are sitting beside passengers being quarantined. I posted a blog about warning international travelers at www.insurancefortrips.com. It is not wise to put other people at risk if you are sick and you also run the risk of being quarantined and your trip being interrupted or delayed . I don’t think people realize if you’re traveling abroad, there is a possibility of being quarantined buy foreign governments and unfortunately you have to abide by thier laws and health preventions.

Reports from China, India, Japan and some European countries have travelers who are sitting beside passengers being quarantined. I posted a blog about warning international travelers at http://www.insurancefortrips.com.

It is not wise to put other people at risk if you are sick and you also run the risk of being quarantined and your trip being interrupted or delayed .

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]]> By: Annette http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/consumer-travel-alliance-73-percent-would-fly-with-the-flu-changes-too-difficult-and-costly/comment-page-1/#comment-17259 Annette Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:06:44 +0000 http://www.consumertraveler.com/?p=21224#comment-17259 The results are hardly surprising. In a recent poll of Quebec residents 25% said they would continue to go to work every day even if they had H1N1. That's not gosh I think I have the flu, I might be sick - that's been medically diagnosed as having it. If 25% of people are going to be selfish enough to keep going to work when they KNOW they're infecting people with H1N1, why on earth would people be willing to change their travel plans (with fee or free) on the suspicion that they might have it? Yes part of it is financial, and part of it is just that people are selfish and don't want to be put out. The results are hardly surprising. In a recent poll of Quebec residents 25% said they would continue to go to work every day even if they had H1N1. That’s not gosh I think I have the flu, I might be sick – that’s been medically diagnosed as having it. If 25% of people are going to be selfish enough to keep going to work when they KNOW they’re infecting people with H1N1, why on earth would people be willing to change their travel plans (with fee or free) on the suspicion that they might have it? Yes part of it is financial, and part of it is just that people are selfish and don’t want to be put out.

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