Waiting for the email to come from Jet2 – supposedly there’s going to be some kind of announcement today.
However, I don’t think this is going to bring the closure we want it to because as far as I am aware, any announcement regarding green lists or whatever is only going to cover the next 3 weeks whereas we are due to fly in 4 weeks.
Jet 2 said yesterday: If the government update is tomorrow then the next one should be 3 weeks later so around 15th July it would be expected. The review tomorrow will apply to flights travelling in the next 21 days and then there would be another update. So the status of your country could go green tomorrow and then be changed to red at the next update so it is just not possible for us to say what will be happening for definite.
Problem is, we have a balance of £2761.25 to pay for the villa in 5 days.
I think it would be absolutely crazy to pay this money out if we still don’t know if we’re able to fly regardless of what the announcement is today because as Jet2 said, it could change again in 3 weeks.
But what do we do about the villa?
I certainly don’t want to hand over another penny if we don’t know if the holiday is going ahead. But that means we could lose the villa and our deposit. But I think we have a greater chance of getting our deposit back if we allow Panoramic Villas to cancel the booking rather than if we do it.
If we tell them that we can’t make a decision until 15th July (or thereabouts) then the onus is on them (or the owners) to either wait or cancel our booking. If they cancel it, I’d be looking to go down the credit card and / or section 75 route to get it back.
I don’t think the villa owners have a multitude of people waiting to take our place so they might have no option but to wait and see themselves.
But we can’t ignore the scenario that Panoramic villas could cancel our villa in 5 days and Jet2 announce we’re all good to go in 3 weeks …..
With regards to the flights, I think we need to wait until 15th July to see where we stand and we have three options:
a) get a full refund
b) change flights to another date
c) go on holiday
We can’t make a decision on the flights today but we need to decide on what we’re going to do on the villa in the next day or two.
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