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The best deals were in April – before airlines grounded more planes and when no one was traveling, but you can still score a deal now.
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There’s never been a worse time to fly. With coronavirus cases surging in some states and more international borders closed than open, the friendly skies aren’t so friendly. But there is a silver lining. Many fares have never been better. Considering airlines are waiving sky-high change fees and dropping prices to fill empty seats, buying that $275 roundtrip ticket from San Francisco to Costa Rica in September is awfully tempting, even in the midst of a global pandemic.
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“Almost all airlines are offering flexible booking policies right now, so we’re strongly encouraging people to book refundable travel because there are some great deals to be had,” says Raj Mahal, founder of the flight deals site PlanMoreTrips. A couple of months ago when coronavirus nearly shut down the airline industry and fares were in freefall, Mahal found a record-low $293 roundtrip ticket on United to London. It departs from San Francisco in December. For the price of one ticket during normal times, he scored four tickets for his family.
Mahal said the best deals were in April – before airlines grounded more planes and when no one was traveling.
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Fortunately, most airlines have responded to the unpredictable pandemic by waiving change fees (that often cost more than the fare).
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The founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights, a similar flight deal aggregator, agrees.
“Early in the pandemic, there were many flights in which airlines were essentially dumping fares – like coast-to-coast for $23 roundtrip – but those days are gone,” says Scott Keyes. “That said, we’re seeing a big uptick in two highly sought-after groups of deals: mistake fares, when an airline accidentally sells a ticket for far less than it meant to, and peak season deals over summer, Christmas, and New Year’s.”
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Last week, Scott’s Cheap Flights sent its subscribers late 2020 and early 2021 roundtrip deals from the U.S. including $375 fares to Bali, $180 fares to Aruba and $419 business class fares to Mexico. Meanwhile, PlanMoreTrips’ latest roundtrip deals include $400 fares from San Francisco to Thailand, $286 fares from Washington, D.C. to Bogota and $389 fares from Los Angeles to London. Of course, given the world is bracing itself for a second wave of coronavirus, there’s a good chance these flights won’t take off.
Fortunately, most airlines have responded to the unpredictable pandemic by waiving change fees (that often cost more than the fare). Scott’s Cheap Flights only sends its members deals from airlines with flexible policies. They include American Airlines, United and Delta who are all waiving change fees for flights issued through June 30. If coronavirus infection rates continue to increase as more states reopen, these policies will probably be extended. Furthermore, the U.S. Department of Transportation mandates travelers are entitled to a complete cash refund – even on non-refundable tickets – if their flight is canceled for any reason.
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Still, travelers must read the fine print before booking.
“Even if change fees are waived, travelers are still responsible for changes in ticket prices,” points out Jen Ruiz, author of The Affordable Flight Guide: How to Find Cheap Airline Tickets and See the World on a Budget. “This can negate the deal travelers thought they were getting in the first place,” Ruiz said, adding that it’s important to take note of quarantine periods upon arrival for international travel. Airlines aren’t under any obligation to refund tickets if guests are unable to go on a 7-day trip because there’s a 14-day mandatory quarantine in place.
For the first time in a long time, countries aren’t welcoming Americans with open arms. With the U.S. having the highest confirmed number of coronavirus cases, the value of the U.S. passport seems to be dropping by the minute. For that reason, both Mahal and Keyes cite domestic airfare as having the lowest risk.
You don’t want to book a last-minute ticket abroad if you can avoid it.
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“Domestic flights are significantly less likely than international flights to get canceled right now given the fluid travel restrictions in many countries,” explains Keyes. He’s even noticed the normal pricing dynamics of domestic flights has flipped. Instead of last-minute tickets being the most expensive, Keyes is finding they’re now often the cheapest. “Plus, you can be more confident the flight will be a go compared to one that’s scheduled many months out,” says Keyes.
On the contrary, you don’t want to book a last-minute ticket abroad if you can avoid it. According to Mahal, these are the worst deals. Because capacity has been severely restricted – Delta and other airlines aren’t selling middle seats – Mahal says to expect to pay “an arm and a leg” for tickets departing within a week or two of booking. For example, a TAP Portugal roundtrip ticket from Boston to Lisbon the first week in July starts at $618. The same flight departing the first week in October is $200 cheaper.
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How does a traveler find these deals? The easiest way is to subscribe to free email alerts from sites like Scott’s Cheap Flights and PlanMoreTrips. Scott’s Cheap Flights has a team of experts monitoring fares around the clock. PlanMoreTrips uses AI and machine learning to scan through thousands of airline fares. Travelers planning on booking award travel should follow The Points Guy. Most importantly, the time to book is now. According to Mahal, as people return to traveling, airfares will increase. In some cases, they’ll cost more than they did at this time last year.
Regardless of whether you use money or miles, it’s wise to consider travel insurance. Even with waived fees, Mahal calls air travel right now “a gamble.” Still, he’s not losing sleep over the prospect of not flying to London in December as planned. His tickets are 100% refundable. “I have no idea if we’ll take the trip because it seems there is a currently a second wave of COVID infections,” notes Mahal. He’ll play it by ear. If he doesn’t feel safe or if United cancels their flight, his family will take a road trip. Why not take advantage of favorable pandemic gas prices, too?
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Five years ago today, a self-proclaimed white supremacist opened fire during Bible study at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing the senior pastor and eight parishioners.
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]]>It was Moscow, May 9, 1995. That day, there was plenty of celebratory noise and color: music, military marching and, after sunset, fireworks so loud that they made windowpanes rattle. But there is a single sound that stays with me: the clinking of countless medals on the chests of war veterans as they made their way to take part in the parade.
The celebrations marked 50 years since the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. President Bill Clinton was there to represent the United States. A quarter of a century later, the current occupant of the White House, Donald Trump, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have issued a joint statement celebrating the meeting of American and Soviet troops on the Elbe in 1945 — an event that “heralded the defeat of the Nazi regime” and turned the corner on World War II.
The anniversary of the end of World War II is an opportunity to take a closer look at the challenges that relationship faces.
The words of Trump and Putin celebrate a historical unity of purpose that decades ago rid the world of a great evil. They also ignore the controversies and conflicts that define U.S.-Russia relations today.
The anniversary of the end of World War II is an opportunity to take a closer look at the challenges the relationship faces. As the world faces another crisis, there is little sign that the alliance between the U.S. and Russia celebrated in the statement will find its modern equivalent once the world begins to recover. After all, in the years immediately after the end of World War II, relations between Washington and Moscow deteriorated more rapidly than in perhaps any other period.
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The U.S., led then by President Franklin Roosevelt, and the Soviet Union, led by Joseph Stalin, ended the war as allies. Together with the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, they formed what editors of a recent volume of wartime correspondence among the three leaders called an “implausible trio,” so different were their backgrounds and political beliefs.
But as victory approached, tensions began to show. A month before Hitler’s forces capitulated, Stalin wrote to Roosevelt on a matter relating to the terms of the coming surrender: “Americans, however, and the Englishmen think differently, considering the Russian point of view wrong.”
Both the U.S. and the USSR sensed then that the bonds forged in war would not survive the peacetime clash of bitterly opposed political philosophies. My own recent research has focused on the work of American and British correspondents in Russia in the 20th century. The way reporters were treated is the story of relations between Washington and Moscow. While American foreign correspondents were tolerated in wartime, soon afterward things got tough. Harrison Salisbury was in Moscow for The New York Times in 1949. Writing about a diplomatic spat between the two former allies, he used a phrase so new it appeared in quotes, “Cold War.”
So it stayed for most of the rest of the century. The wartime alliance was soon just a memory. A nuclear arms race meant that the continent where American and Soviet troops had once shaken hands as brothers in arms became a front in an ideological confrontation between communism and capitalism.
That confrontation came to overshadow the achievements of the “implausible trio.” Clinton knew this, of course. Speaking to an audience at Moscow State University, the president acknowledged that “because our alliance with you was shattered at the war’s end by the onset of the Cold War, Americans never fully appreciated, until yesterday, the true extent of your sacrifice and its contribution to our common victory.” For his Russian audience, Clinton’s words put right a longstanding wrong. No longer would credit be shared only with those, like the United Kingdom, who had remained allies after the war. After decades of Cold War confrontation, Russia was given due recognition for its role in the defeat of Hitler.
Clinton’s choice of venue was no accident. He chose to address the younger generation of Russians, presumably hoping to spur a new, warmer era. He was not alone. World leaders, including those of many former Cold War foes, flocked to Moscow to share Russia’s celebrations. It was a time of rapidly improving relations. The U.S. and Russia had ended decades of nuclear saber rattling. There was real hope they would now be friends.
But that friendship was not to be. Relations since have soured over NATO’s eastward expansion and Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
But that friendship was not to be. Relations since have soured over NATO’s eastward expansion and Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
With questions of Russian influence (especially suggestions that the Kremlin may have tried to help Trump get elected) in U.S. politics now a constant source of speculation, intrigue and inquiry, any interaction between Trump and Putin is scrutinized. Even the pair’s V-E Day statement is controversial. Members of the political and intelligence establishment have suggested that it was a Russian initiative, the implication being that Trump is following Putin’s lead.
Trump has at least been spared the diplomatic dilemma of deciding whether to attend the parade that had been planned for Red Square on Saturday. Because of the coronavirus, travel is difficult and the parade is postponed. But the decision whether to stay away from the celebrations may still lie ahead — September is being discussed as a possible date for a rescheduled event. To stay away would be to offend Putin; to go would be interpreted by critics as ignoring persistent allegations of Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
Then there’s Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea — the cause of extensive Western sanctions — and its military support for President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Fifteen thousand troops were supposed to take part in the parade. At least some of them would surely have served in at least one of those campaigns.
“The ‘Spirit of the Elbe’ is an example of how our countries can put aside differences,” begins the final paragraph of the presidents’ joint statement. But in reality, the past 75-odd years have shown how difficult it is for countries to do exactly that. And there seems little chance that an improvement in relations between Washington and Moscow will follow once today’s world gets back to something approaching normal.
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