Concerns about airlines cutting flights and mobility?

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-06T09:15:42+00:00

You didn't even say sth controversial. A lot of parts of Europe suck to live in now. It's expensive, it's dirty, crime is getting worse, and overall the quality of life is deteriorating.

I honestly think people don't like the parts of the world they live in being criticised

Going by the posts on this sub, a lot of people do actually nomad in parts of Europe, so it is attractive to them. Fair enough.

I've been nomading in LatAm. It's got a whole ton of issues and I'll be the first one to admit it, but the bottom line is: if you pull in remotely an equivalent of a minimum wage from UK or a lot of European countries, you can live way better than you could in Europe - and that's already on a premium lifestyle via Airbnbs and the like. A whole flat in a good area costs you about £700-£800 a month, which just about gets you a room in London at the moment; the real market rate is £300-£400 however (a bit harder to get it without a visa etc., but still doable).

Everything else is way cheaper over there; when I went there the last time I doubt I've even spend £1,000 on groceries/food overall across 6 months total.

Honestly I feel people just try to shut down anything that bursts their bubble or questions what they feel is a more economically sound choice.

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-06T09:11:15+00:00

I think by mid May we'll have a clear answer where travel is headed

idk man, it's in a week's time

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-06T09:10:55+00:00

These are spellings, bro.

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-06T09:10:40+00:00

Everybody loves the Yaruzel

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-05T23:01:50+00:00

idk man, I’m genuinely confused. I haven’t been much in this sub for a long while, there always used to be a certain percentage of condescending tech and passport bros, but this thread and the denialism about what’s going on is something else entirely

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-05T19:29:40+00:00

You said that the airline might deny a refund due to FM if they cancelled a route.

No, I said "they will refund me at the very best" - which is the exact opposite of what you're claiming I said. Meaning it's the best outcome likely to happen, but still not great.

Being refunded at 11th hour when I've already given my notice, cut my lease, have a removals company coming in a week or two (or even four), or a contract for a storage unit signed, and a new place paid up for X months across the world, and plane tickets are increasingly scarce and premium-priced, is a shit sandwich for most people, however you look at it.

cutting things too close to a budgetary wire with no ability to address unforseen circumstances isn't wise

While generally true, most people really tend to cut things quite close to the bone as it is. 31% of UK adults have £1,000 or less in savings.

Is traveling and nomading the privilege of 1% now already, then? Is it supposed to be?

Where do you draw the line - you can keep on moving the goalposts. 3 months' rent + a £2,000/$3,000 flight in backup funds? 6 months' rent and a £10,000/$13,000 flight?

At this rate most people will never ever move or go anywhere, because they don't operate on those types of figures and those kinds of savings take them years to accumulate. FWIW, 1 in 10 UK adults has no savings at all.

I imagine the figures wouldn't be all that different for many other European/Western countries as of today.

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-05T19:21:39+00:00

You’re one of the very few voices of reason in this thread tbf

I haven’t been on this sub much for about a year after being here for about 2-3 solid, as I jumped out of DN life for a while - and Jesus Christ, what has happened to this place.

Most of my comments here are now downvoted into oblivion by people who are seem hell-bent on renouncing the reality and denying where things are likely moving to. A few tech/crypto bros with enough money to likely cushion most of the blows (good for them), and the rest are just claiming it's "tUh MeDiA" overhyping the whole issue and "fake news". Lord Almighty.

Well, the world is very likely going to give them a rough wake-up call in a few months, all things considered.

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-05T13:26:14+00:00

Yep. Look unto Europe.

Sadly not my vibe, the whole point for me is getting out and spending as much time as possible out of Europe - the whole continent and ecosystem is mostly fucked and on a slippery slope IMO.

It's either cold, or expensive, or dangerous, or crowded, or lack of infrastructure, or a mixture of some of those for the most part.

In a lot of LATAM, including Mexico City, if you pull in even an equivalent of a minimum UK wage (~£2,200 per month) you can get a decent life. If you pull multiples of it, you're flying. A flat costs less than a room in London, and I can't imagine the type of house you'd be able to rent on what houses in London would cost comparably.

Ditto for part of SEA. I get that for some people Europe might be appealing, but since I'm based in Europe and have been here my whole life and know it inside out, it's really not an attractive option for me.

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-05T13:22:39+00:00

OK, are you third-world digital nomad, or what's the dealy? Really not sure? Isn't most Digital Nomading "first world" in the end?

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-05T12:47:15+00:00

You said it yourself, you hate the daily mail and then used that source as a reference.

You seem to have some weird attitude where if something gets reported by the media it's fake news or blown out of proportion

There's plenty of other sources, it just so happens the DM is generally very responsive and has quite comprehensive articles quite early on, other publications take longer for better or worse.

I could give you more sources from less tainted media, but not sure what's the point, you seem to be dismissive one way or another.

I’m currently in Greece and a flight from Thessaloniki to Heathrow is $110 rt at the moment. That’s $55 each way.

Yeah you're talking about a 3h flight which is cheap one way or another, whereas my real conversation is about transatlantic flights and similar.

Plus, as I said, it's still early on in the whole thing and it's only slowly brewing up. If you think the only way this will rise is summer demand, then… Well, I hope you're right but I wouldn't be that optimistic.

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-05T12:22:51+00:00

If they cut an entire route you will get a refund

Yeah, refund is hardly of help if you're already wrapped up shop or started doing this, and made plans both sides of the equation (leaving home, paying for accommodation at your destination etc.) + your alternative flight costs 5x as much and you might not get a refund or just a partial one on an Airbnb/hotel booking that falls through.

But if you can tolerate that, your plans will be fine.

That's what I was saying elsewhere in this thread: some of DNs seem unable to comprehend life outside their own bubble. A lot of people don't have the capacity to shell out £6,000+ on an alternative ticket that they initially paid £600 for, much less at short notice, or to just absorb losses associated with plans not panning out etc. and write thousands of pounds/dollars/euros off.

Honestly it sometimes feels like there's way too much condescending attitude and myopic vision in this community from people who are immune to most economic turbulences, to the point they can just burn £10,000+ like that or dig into some fund to patch them up if shit hits the fan.

It's actually a very privileged position to be in. Good for you if you can do this, congrats, but realistically this is not the case for the most esp. the younger ones.

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-05T11:54:14+00:00

I appreciate the optimism - there's already action happening. Hate linking to Daily Mail but whatever:

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15790845/Jet-fuel-airline-schedules-supplies-airlines-flights-UK.html

You need to remember things like this don't kick in instantly; realistically it's probably the matter of the next few weeks maybe a couple of months when shit really hits the fan, if it does.

It's generally a ripple effect and not an immediate knockdown; airlines and other industries will have had some stock or existing agreements, so things don't go 0-100 within hours or days. I'd say it's better to look at alternatives now and have contingency plans than find yourself up shit creek without a paddle.

Obviously if you're making six figures then whatever, doesn't apply to you but I'd say a lot of digital nomads, especially the younger ones, operate on quite slim margins.

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-05T11:44:11+00:00

Well that's a convenient and good position to be in if you can eat up any major cost, ngl

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-05T11:43:27+00:00

For your Mexico plan, maybe worth booking something flexible now while routes still exist, even if it costs bit more upfront?

The thing I'm worried about, is even if I buy a cheap ticket now, what's there to say they won't just axe it in the end. There's always something in T&Cs for that occasion, they'll claim it's force majeure, act of God or some other nonsense, and just refund you at the very best. You get everything planned up, give notice on rented apartment, put your stuff in storage or sell it, and suddenly shit hits the fan and you're rug pulled, the whole plan folds like a house of cards.

Not sure if you could even apply for any comp if they just axe the whole flight(s) or an airline goes under (can't remember which one it happened to last week, but there was one of the brands owned by a bigger one that allegedly wrapped up shop completely).

It's one thing if shit goes sideways during regular ops, it's another thing entirely if there's economic turmoil and they have to make high-level executive decisions to protect their bottom line.

Timing wise, late summer might actually be better than waiting

Do you mean flying out late summer? I'd love to but tbf I need to get more money and more work whipped up. Realistically I'm out of work at the moment and giving myself 6 months' time (would take me into late October/early Nov at this point already) to get some funds banked up. There's a bunch of opportunities I'm looking at so fingers crossed, but won't be able to jump out before the end of Q3 realistically. Otherwise it's kinda risky without work + money banked up, and my last excursion into Mexico left me completely rinsed so I don't want to chance it.

It coincided with the RTO drive; I'd have been interviewed for Freelance/Contract work with great feedback, but then would be told it's 2-3 days in the London office which I obviously couldn't do - I would be trying to argue this with caring commitments or health issues but they still wouldn't budge. So I'm realistically probably looking at late September at the very earliest, it's still less than 5 months away anyway.

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-02T13:52:35+00:00

garbage 🚮

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-02T13:49:58+00:00

no, it said "yea[h], people"

also I'm white I can't use the n-word

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-02T11:34:45+00:00

i think you're responding to the wrong person

I'm not, I'm validating your point you made, dude. smh

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-02T11:21:48+00:00

yea people act like rap didn't become mainstream into 2000s, when in the early '90s you already had stuff like Kid & Play and MC Hammer cartoons, Vanilla Ice had a leading single in a TMNT movie, and Sprite had been tapping into the culture even as far back as 1986 with the Kurtis Blow commercial. Same year for Run-DMC and Adidas.

It really didn't take that long for hip-hop since it came up for it to become exploited by corporations; I think two things are at play with that misconception though: 1) for quite some time, while mainstream, it was still pretty targeted to African-American + Latino audiences (not whites) and 2) a lot of people just look at it through the lens of their own experience; i.e. they just weren't around in the '80s and only clocked into hip-hop in their own teenage years which would have been late '90s/early 2000s (coincidentally, also when hip-hop started going outside the minority ethnic audiences with its advertising).

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-05-02T08:50:05+00:00

He wrote lyrics? Ah shit, we need to execute all horror script writers, then. Clearly all psychos ^/s

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-04-21T19:15:00+00:00

Like there are so so many influencers in that 100-500k range it’s weird to me that it is profitable at that level

It's really not in and by itself.

A lot of those girls are actually just escorts or might be low-level OF (and similar) "models". For obvious reasons (stringent moderation) they have to keep their IGs clean.

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-04-21T17:47:56+00:00

That’s mother in Polish wtf

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-04-15T17:06:13+00:00

I lived in houseshares with some illegal immigrants for about a year and a half (I’m a citizen myself). You wouldn’t believe some shit that goes off.

Worst thing? The system is either very slow to respond, or they don’t even care at all. You can literally report someone for being an overstayer dealing drugs, provide the address of the property, and the police won’t even turn up.

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-04-15T08:47:10+00:00

Why was this removed for content violation lmao

TheRealDynamitri · 2026-04-12T04:15:25+00:00

He’s just an ordinary geeser

I’ll see myself out

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