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We'll that's Air France cancelled my flight, just got an email from them will have to see if they can reroute me or if they are willing to reroute me but I expect that it will take until the virus clearly has an existing uncontainable foothold in the Phils before the Philippines Government remove the travel restrictions, that will probably not happen till about mid May or late May.

And if they look like they are containing it in the Phils then the restrictions will probably have expanded to include flights from the UK or Europe by then.

So I won't make my daughters graduation after all and neither will her mother who is currently in Seoul in Korea.

Would flying via Dohaa or Dubai help?

Well the money and the cheap flight was through KLM, I could take the refund but I think I will see if they can re-route through Singapore first and I would not be surprised if the middle east ends up on the banned list soon.

The WHO apparently do not recommend travel bans but countries like the Phils have employed them anyway.

Flight was mid April after Easter till early May.

Just found this https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2020/2/14/Taiwan-travel-ban-lifted.html

They lifted the ban on transits through Taiwan more than two weeks ago, so god knows what's going on now.

So AirFrance rebooked me two days later, which suits me as I had had to guess when my daughter's graduation was going to happen and had to book a longer break than I would otherwise have done, this way I can save some days for later in the year.

It appears that they are amalgamating flights I suppose either because they aren't selling the seats or they are getting a lot of cancellations or both.

Why are you puzzled Mike?

The death rate there has so far been mirrored elsewhere apart from South Korea where it is still quite low at around 1%.

Close to 200 deaths in Italy....
Outside of Some towns, there are army check points to stop people from leaving or entering...
The unelected, leftist, government coalition is in disarray about the whole affair of the Virus...
Shortage of essential medical equipment, and the sad news of a few European Nations banning the export of such equipment... It is great to be European in moments of need...

Solidarity shot to bits..............