Take out your Malaysian passport throw at their face 😂

Sien. My Sakura trip hotels all already booked and is those non refundable rate. Hope this wuhan thing blows over by then. Otherwise buy a few MAGA hats and wear and pretend to be ABC 😂

None so far, outside of mainland China the number of cases are really quite low and don’t justify restricting travel between each other.

He’s being sarcastic lah 😂

Why down the drain? As of now frankly it’s very controlled. Of course nobody knows what will happen in the next few weeks, who knows it spreads like crazy and end up mid March thousands of cases then only makes sense to cancel trips.

The other risk with flying to Japan is that someone on your flight suddenly allergy and started sneezing and flu and fever and ppl mistook it for potential coronavirus, then who knows your whole flight kena 14 days quarantine

https://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/s/article/2020021301001165.html

Not familiar with buses, but has it ever been 1000 yen? I know Haneda buses are ¥1000 but Narita is much further away.

At the end of the day, the infection rate in Japan is still quite low. Even if there are 10,000 unreported cases, that’s still less than 0.01% of the population. If you and your travel party are all healthy adults and take some precautions, I think the risk of kena infected is quite low.

Having said that, to my view there are 2 other risks which are more worrying. (1) For me based in SG, I see Singapore airlines on a weekly basis announcing more and more flight cancellations. It’s possible that I fly there liao suddenly my flight back cancelled and now gotta waste time and energy making last minute accommodation arrangements, and (2) if something like the Korea thing happens (30 cases to 900 cases in one week), travel restrictions and quarantine requirements could be imposed by home country, end up fly back need to lock self at home for 2wks can’t go out.

SIA now is being very flexible with waiving flight change or cancellation fees for flights to affected countries in March (and I think May). Can give them a call and see.

Similar with hotels. My Tokyo Hilton booking in end March was non cancelleable rates but they agreed to let me cancel without penalty cos of the virus. Problem is Osaka Hilton (also non cancelleable rate, in early April) said no, cos for now their instruction is to allow exceptions only until end March. But I’m somewhat confident that they will extend this to April bookings too cos the numbers for japan are going up up up.

Teamlab borderless just announced indefinite closure

Disneyland/Sea announced 2week closure, but if situation doesn’t improve I assume it will remain closed for longer.

I guess more places will start announcing more closures too.

Not AA fault in the sense that malaysia govt itself never announced any travel advisory restricting trips to japan, no?

From AA viewpoint it’s logical also. “Government never said don’t go (ie it’s safe), if u kiasi that’s your problem” 😂

Lots of full service airlines also the same lah. MAS also making it difficult to get refund, across causeway SIA only waiving change fees if you postpone flight to august or earlier, if you wanna cancel then no concessions at all.


Don’t know how on earth you reached that conclusion.

The ban is on (non Malaysian) visitors entering Malaysia.

Malaysians are only “advised” not to go to Hokkaido. They’re not banned from going.

Why you all cancelling trip?

Malaysia 1-in-164,000 infected
Japan 1-in-172,000 infected

Malaysia higher infection rate than Japan, you are literally safer over there than over here.

Covid not airborne (it spreads via droplets but not via aerosol) leh so no need to worry about catching it through the aircon.

So you can definitely catch it if some infected person sitting a few seats away from you who’s touching his face and then getting up to go toilet time touch all the seat backs and then later you also touch. But you can’t get it by someone in first class sneeze then the virus travel as an aerosol circulate into the aircon system and you sitting at the back of the plane breathe it in.

“In droplet form, the coronavirus is airborne for a few seconds after someone sneezes or coughs. It’s able to travel only a short distance before gravitational forces pull it down. Someone close enough for the virus particles to reach in that brief period can therefore be infected. So can anyone who comes into contact with virus-containing droplets that fall onto a surface. The new coronavirus can survive on surfaces for several hours; hence the importance of hand-washing after touching a surface in a public place.”

This post has been edited by deodorant: Mar 20 2020, 06:13 PM

Ouch my knowledge outdated liao, if it’s airborne then a big difference in transmissibility.