@susan well stated!

Let’s work together and make our voices heard:

https://www.change.org/p/airbnb-airbnb-breach-of-contract-class-action-lawsuit-violate-cancellation-policies

While Trip Cancellation covers traveler’s most common concerns, it doesn’t cover everything. If you are concerned the Trip Cancellation benefit doesn’t have enough coverage, the Cancel For Any Reason upgrade may be a good option for you. This benefit offers a partial refund of your expenses, typically 75%, if you cancel a trip for a reason not listed under Trip Cancellation. However it requires you to insure your full trip cost, and is only available for 14-30 days after you book your trip. The Cancel for Any Reason benefit will increase your premium by about 40%.

James, yes there is insurance that covers pandemics under cover all section of policies. Cover all means cover all including pandemics.

Do you know any of the hudge Law forms to work on this ???

Why don’t you contact that specific guest and ask them what their refund was and then get back to us?

“And I definitely wouldn’t be so petty as to challenge their ability to do math on a public forum. That’s toxic.”

Sorry, but the original poster made a conjecture about what was actually refunded to the guest, and then extrapolated to that to every Airbnb user, not just the ones with reservations during this time, not just the ones with reservations at listings with strict cancellation policies, and not just the ones that actually cancelled. Such misinformation is what is truly toxic.

“Guests could have bought insurance to protect themselves from loss”

No, they couldn’t. No travel insurance covers pandemics. None.

“air B and B can afford and ought to cover the losses”

No, they can’t. They’d literally run out of cash in a few weeks. It’s hard to say because they don’t publish statistics of how many listings have strict cancellation policy (and those are all that matters for this discussion). But if they refunded guests and allowed hosts to keep the 50%, I estimate they’d deplete their entire $3B cash reserves in 2 to 4 months. They’d file bankruptcy before that, though.

ABB policies have been unfair towards hosts for a long time, and this is an opportunity to have our voices heard and set a precedent.

Yes, some credit cards offer travel protection, but not all. Normal cancellation policies were not adhered to before and are not even practical in a pandemic situation.

Reasonable accommodation during these times is needed to be safe, and to stay in business on all levels.

This should be a well thought-out, interactive professionally approached community discussion on the platform, and social media as well if we are to be heard, and to use this as a foundation for additional fair and equitable change.

Thank you.