1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: Make sing Whiting is from our local House of Travel morning, 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 1: good morning. Are you thinking shesh here we go again? 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: Would you put this on par with the disruption that COVID. 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 2: Caused not at this point, No, this is feels different. 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 2: It is still concerning for lots of people. 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: How many mid kentabs have we got affected by this? 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 2: You reckon well at the moment across the House of 8 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 2: Travel groups and nationwide we have about six hundred and 9 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 2: seventy yard affected. Locally, we're working with a couple that 10 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 2: are affected, but we find found alternatives and safe and 11 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 2: well and continuing with their journeys. 12 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: We heard from one local jam who's hold up in 13 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: Doha yesterday and you can listen back to that really 14 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: compelling interview on our podcast search Brickfast Hash Burton with 15 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: Luke Awden on iHeartRadio. And I asked, you know, does 16 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: travel insurance cover any of this? And she said no? 17 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: But then, what's really cool to see? And I hear 18 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: that you caught a glimpse of this overnight that in 19 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:04,960 Speaker 1: the lights of Doha and Dubai. The UAE government has 20 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: said to all the hotels, don't evict guests who are 21 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: stuck here. Who have to stay, send us the bill 22 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: and we'll pay for it. The government's putting everybody up. 23 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 2: It's an amazing gesture, isn't it. 24 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:17,479 Speaker 1: That is super generous. 25 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 2: And I'm sure those people appreciate it very much, because, yeah, 26 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,679 Speaker 2: with travel insurance, you do need to check with your 27 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 2: provider or talk with your consultant, and we can lead 28 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 2: you through what is and isn't covered, but it is limited. 29 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, they reckon. That's twenty thousand people that are being 30 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,479 Speaker 1: supported there, and food's being paid for and everything too. 31 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,199 Speaker 1: But the ones that I'm now thinking of as well, 32 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: and we've touched on this a few times before, Maccine, 33 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: how mid Cantabrians. We are Truebadoors at heart. We love 34 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: to go and see the world. What about those with 35 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: upcoming trips booked? Because you know, this Middle East region 36 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: is a gateway to the world, you know, in many respects. 37 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: What advice do you have here? 38 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 2: It certainly is a gateway. And we're working with our 39 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 2: other clients with their longer term plans and really just 40 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 2: helping them with advice and well informed information about what 41 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:10,640 Speaker 2: their options are, which at this point, if not a 42 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 2: lot the airlines are really only put out guides up 43 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 2: to the well for the next twenty four hours and 44 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 2: then after and it's a daily thing from that. They 45 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 2: are really good. They are offering alternatives, alternative routes if 46 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 2: they are available for people out there. But it is 47 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 2: limiting and it is challenging for everybody, including us. 48 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, where everybody's just coming to terms with the situation. 49 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: So I was going to ask that the airlines are 50 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:36,919 Speaker 1: pretty cooperative, are they that? 51 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 2: Yes, they have been very cooperative. They've offered alternative routes 52 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 2: if they are available, and of course if you have 53 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 2: someone into by the Risen alternative fruit all Doha, they 54 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 2: can't get out. So they are there until the airspace opens. 55 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 2: And I guess we need to remember it's for everybody's safety. 56 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: Oh big too. I wouldn't want to be in a 57 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 1: tin can taken off with rockets flying around, that's for sure. 58 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: We've had an update overnight too a way that it extended. 59 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:03,679 Speaker 2: Yes, so that was to come off at about two 60 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 2: o'clock our time today. It's now been extended for another 61 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 2: twenty four hours at this point. And every airline is different. 62 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 2: There is a few flights coming out of that region. 63 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 2: For I know that Itty had evacuated some staff of 64 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 2: Austrian Airlines out of the out of Dohai yesterday. 65 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: Oh wow. 66 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:22,799 Speaker 2: Yeah, so there is one or two, but they are 67 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 2: not certainly not commercially flying. 68 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: Yeah. The World's big place, though, there's many other gateways. 69 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: So like, for instance, if we've got a trip box 70 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: to parts of Europe and England that goes through the 71 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: Lights of Singapore, would that be affected. 72 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 2: No, this stage, Singapore is not affected. Yeah, And there's 73 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 2: Hong Kong, Bangkok. There is alternative ways, and of course 74 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 2: there is via the USA, which isn't everybody's idea of 75 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 2: the best thing at the moment either, but there are 76 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 2: certainly options out there for people to be rerouted by 77 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 2: somewhere else. 78 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what a time that we are so 79 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: thankful to have the Lights of yourself in the team 80 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: ahouse to travel, educating for us and taking care of 81 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: all that in certainly thinking of what are going to 82 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: be busy times for you, chief, the world's crazy place 83 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: are mixing, it 84 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 2: Is, indeed, and we continue to carry on and do 85 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 2: our very good threat Lights