[Billy]

My family (me, my wife, 5 year old daughter, 18 month old son) booked a 2 week all inclusive vacation to Mazatlan a little over a month ago. We got a great deal and were very excited about it. We were supposed to leave this past Monday. Last Wednesday/Thursday when this whole swine flu deal came to life, we got slightly nervous. Then over the weekend we got more nervous as they WHO raised the pandemic level. You see the thing is, our son has had a compromised immune system since the day he was born. It seems he gets sick every month or so with either a cold or flu. He had even more serious immune problems when he was younger. On Sunday night we phoned Westjet to see if we could switch to another destination and they told us it wasn't possible. Had a bad sleep Sunday night, woke up Monday, packed the car and headed off to the airport. On the way my wife phoned Westjet again and right as we pulled up to the airport, we found out they changed their policy and would allow us to switch to anywhere they flew. We are now heading to the Domican on May 9th and very grateful to Westjet for doing that for us.

If this were just my wife and I we would have gone for sure, but would any of you want to take your young kids into a situation that could put them in potential danger like that? It would probably have amounted to nothing, but what if either of them got sick and we could have prevented it by not going? It was the plane ride home that had us the most nervous...recirculated air and all.