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A message to our hosts from CEO Brian Chesky (if anyone cares 
HERE’S THE LINK TO WATCH RECORDED MESSAGE AND RECAP:
He’ll be answering some of your questions about our extenuating circumstances policy, how to host during COVID-19, and more.
Watch it live at 3:00 p.m. PT Monday, March 30.
I really don’t. And even if I thought he was well meaning, no one knows what’s going to happen. Unless he is announcing something like the sale of the company…
So what did he say? I was busy catching up on Cuomo’s daily briefing from today which, on a scale of importance to me, is UP HERE. 
… and Brian Chesky is down here. 
It’s Pacific time…so nothing yet 
Oh! I assumed I missed it! Or they would tell me what time it was in my time zone. Good. I hope I am awake.
I was impressed. He seemed to cover all the bases.
I would imagine that the 25% refund will only cover those hosts with a strict cancellation policy.
That would be rich given that Airbnb encourages flexible policy. Not that it matters to me, I’m not due any significant money. Maybe $15.
I missed it and there’s no recap yet. What is the 25% refund? Thanks!
https://www.airbnb.com/resources/hosting-homes/a/250m-to-support-hosts-impacted-by-cancellations-165
Yeah, we’ll get nothing. Kind of wish I’d had that strict policy now 
Interesting how they have arrived at that $250M figure. That’s enough to cover $1bn booking value. But is it sufficient to cover a 2.5 month period (mid March to end of May) for all qualifying cancellations across the world?
I’ve said before that I’m thankful I never had to rely on Airbnb to live. That will never change and now I have even more reason to put some distance between them and me. All the risks I banged on about for years, I never thought this (a disease) would be the main one but it was on my list.
Chesky said that guests who cancelled as a result of COVID will receive a message inviting them to send money to the host anyway as a donation in recognition of difficulties being experienced by hosts. I will really look forward to how that pans out. Not sure if you have to be a superhost for that to happen.
Can someone please re-cap? I made it in late to the live session unfortunately. Was there mention about host-requested cancellations? As a host who does all my own cleaning, along with my health history of 3 previous heart surgeries, I felt it best to cancel. We had back-to-back guests who were coming from all over and some who had traveled out of the country recently. Tough choice for sure as this is our primary income! 
They don’t say that, but yeah, it probably affects a very small percentage of reservations at listings with Moderate policy and everything else is Strict.
I don’t know if they would even send that to any guests of listings with Flexible policy, but I expect to receive exactly $0.00 from my 6 or 7 cancellations.
A sort of begging message you might say.
Ho hum.
JF
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/airbnb-ceo-apologizes-hosts-260-220037141.html
It appears that Airbnb is offering $260 million mea culpa package.
