iw

I am very curious...How many people plan to cancel any trips to Europe that were to take place in the next month?
Forgive me if this has been asked before. I am not sure what I would do, personally.

elina

What is going to happen in Europe in the next month?

LuvToRoam

Fist traveled to Europe after 9/11 and have returned every year since. If we give up all our freedoms and hide in fear all terrorists and criminals win. We leave in 24 days. Our concern is selfishly the inconveniences we will face on OUR vacation and of course how dry our contacts may be on the flight. No lousy, cowardly terrorists are going to scare us away though, not on your life! Shirley

steviegene

I think cancelling a trip would be ridiculous.
Would you never go into NYC again because of 9/11 or New Orleans, because of Katrina.
Would you stop driving a car - because you might get into an accident.

edhodge

No way, no how, are we going to cancel our trip!

maureencol

I love your responses...I feel exactly the same way. I booked a trip to Rome/England/Ireland right after 9/11. I, too, am not going to let a bunch of wack jobs alter my life, if I can help it. Otherwise, as was said, they win. You have more of a chance of getting killed on the way to the airport.
Maureen

mztery

We're not cancelling any trips....but we are planning a possible trip in November and will consider flying into Paris or Frankfurt instead of Heathrow...just because I don;t know hthat wthey will havw worked our flights and restrictions by then./..

tcreath

We are going to London and then on to Croatia in November and certainly wouldn't even consider cancelling our trip. I still think air travel is one of the safest modes of transportation. The likelihood of something happening to me is so slim that its not worth concerning myself over. My biggest concern is how much time I should allow myself at Gatwick before my flight to Dubrovnik.

Tracy

PalQ

How many people are thinking of cancelling their next car trip from home? Chances of being killed on a road near your home i think are much greater than on any airline - more chance of getting killed on way to airport in my thinking.
Best odds - never leave your house!

norween

<<< Best odds - never leave your house!<<
May i disagree with you PalQ ?
Just consider how many people die in a bed. If you believe in statistics, the most dangerous thing in life is going to bed ....

Tiff

We don't have a trip planned, but if we did, we would still go, it is just in our nature. We will not allow terrorists to control our lives. And I have always tried to live my life without fear. Fear of the outcome can be a dangerous thing.

My favorite story was from my 76 year old MIL. She and my 80 yo FIL flew to Europe a couple weeks after September 11th. Her only comment was, "We've been married 50 years, we have lived through so much together, we want to go on this trip, we're going. If anything happens, we are together just as always." I am proud of them.

With that said, I can totally undersand why someone would want to cancel, and I would not label them in any way. It is just a personal preference.

There are many things that influence decisions such as these. There is no right or wrong answer.

audere_est_facere

A friend of mine is trying to book a holiday to Greece (from UK) and is quite close to giving it up as she simply can't face the embuggerment of the new regulations, and will simply go to France on the train instead.

JandaO

I would NEVER cancel my trip.
I go to Holland/Italy in 33 days.

If I stay home , they win.

cls2paris

I leave for Paris at the end of this month. The thought of cancelling never crossed my mind. I just flew domestically and there really were no noticeable delays at the security or gate, it seemed like business as usual. What is causing you to consider cancelling?

FauxSteMarie

Whether to barrel on and brazen out terrorism or to cancel a trip is a personal decision. No one should be attacked on a message board because of the alleged terrorist "win" if you cancel your vacation. That sort of argument is nuts. Terrorists do not care if you cancel your vacation or business trip. They want your body falling out of a plane.

After 911 there was a huge decrease in tourism. After all, 2,800 people were killed and that sort of operates as a deterrent to travel, no?

People do not travel when they do not feel safe. They stay home and nest. Everyone was shell shocked after 911 because we never expected such devastation on American soil.

Fewer trips will be canceled now because we have sadly gotten used to this sort of thing--and this time at least no one died.

Another mass murder incident will result in a severe downturn in tourism just like 911 did.

As I have said many times before, no one should be attacked on a message board for canceling a trip because he personally feels uneasy because some people choose to make the silly argument that canceling a vacation is some sort of terrorist "win".

That argment makes no sense whatsoever and yet I see it made over and over again. It made no sense the first time and it still makes no sense.

kismetchimera

No way I would cancel my trip..I feel that if the Great Maker(GOD) determines that is my time to leave this world,not matter where I go he will find me.

I am leaving in 12 days for my beloved Rome and if everything goes well, I will be on the plane.

E_M

Depends....frankly, upon the permitted items in the carryon. I just can't risk the airlines losing some things for more than 24 hours.

BTilke

Well, I don't have any trips involving planes coming up, so it's easy for me to say no, I wouldn't cancel. But if I did have a trip planned, maybe I'd rethink how much I really wanted that holiday abroad. I do have plans to visit my mother in Florida sometime this fall, but the date's not set.

Every year friends and relatives visit us in Europe. I've spoken to most of them in the past few days and to a man (or woman) they have all said they were glad that they *already* did their trip to Europe earlier this year. The issue was not really fear of terrorism but rather lack of desire to put up with even more stress at checkin and on board, esp. in economy class.
My brother-in-law is flying to Germany next month for business on Lufthansa. He didn't deliberately choose not to fly on a U.S. branded carrier, but...

bonzhoor

We are still pushig thrugh with our trip this thursday. Flying into London, taking the Eurostar to Paris and roam about in Provence and Loire Valley area - with mom, husband and 5 year old daughter in tow! Couldn't have possibly planned this trip without all you great folks!

Was just checking the weather in London, Paris, Avignon and Loire and it's raining in all those places - it looks like it will be raining the whole time we are in London : (


To the locals in those areas, is the hot, hot weather over? Is it relatively cooler now(the temperatures the last few times I checked were in the 70s).

E_M

What ^^ said. It's not fear that would make me cancel, it's whether or not the trip outweighs the stress it takes to get there.

I could just as easily take a train to Boston, then boat to Nantucket. Hmmm....