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Aviation industry and Covid-19
- Thread starter Bozza
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Bringing in the hotel system will be end of a few airlines here and certainly many travel companies
It’s complete over kill - we need restrictions in place and the airlines/airports have been pushing for these - but this is OTT
There won’t be a road map out and it won’t be for a few weeks.
We are literally the only big nation (Not in the middle of nowhere) to bring this in, it’s because they think it will be popular rather than following the science, even sage are saying it’s pointless.
It’s complete over kill - we need restrictions in place and the airlines/airports have been pushing for these - but this is OTT
There won’t be a road map out and it won’t be for a few weeks.
We are literally the only big nation (Not in the middle of nowhere) to bring this in, it’s because they think it will be popular rather than following the science, even sage are saying it’s pointless.
nicko31
Well-known member
To bring in the hotel quarantine at this stage would be silly and as you say destructive to the travel business, the horse as already bolted
Just up the required test to the gold standard PCR (the current anti-gen accepted isn't accurate enough). If they want to go a step further impose the quarantine at home on top and / or an additional test to reduce quarantine times
What next Australian style scheme are they going to come up with?
Well Granty boy just put a nail in a few companies by saying no travel till world is vaccinated.
dsr-burnley
Well-known member
- Aug 15, 2014
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What a peabrain. He might have been selectively quoted, but the Daily Telegraph tends to be pro-release so I doubt it.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...arantine-uk-list-countries-vaccine-passports/
Instead of saying that there is no guarantee of even being allowed holidays in this country - which is stating the bleeding obvious, because apart from anything else we might be hit by an asteroid before then - why doesn't he say that assuming the coronavirus vaccine goes well there is no reason to doubt that UK holidays, at least, will go ahead as normal?
Or alternatively he could declare that government policy is that we will not release lockdown until he can guarantee immortality for everyone?
Starting to see more middle ground/siding with lockdown starting to question this now.
Mellor 3 Ward 4
Well-known member
I listed to Shapps on the Today programme this am and I don't think he said that....
I agree that he certainly said don't book a summer holiday yet, but he did backtrack (surely not) on Vaccination Passports, suggesting they were more than a possibility.
I really hope that if we have the majority of those at risk (over 50s) having had at least one jab by the end of May then Summer Holidays could be on - HOWEVER if you need ' two jabs' to get a 'vaccination passport' then I think summer is pretty much cancelled and the travel industry will fall off a cliff
I have an TUI Aircraft engineer and a BA pilot as two neighbours - both very fearful for their jobs at the moment.....
Sounds like a slightly better message than on breakfast earlier.
I think there will be travel this summer (see holiday thread) but if as you say it’s 2 jabs that’s game over.
Part of me thinks it’s a ploy (it’s clearly PR) to get people to behave
The Gov will have to spend Billions to keep everything afloat.
We had a call with one of the directors today.
He says Gatwick surviving is currently 50/50 and that’s with a summer planned in
I assume the Gov would buy it/bail it out - but that’s gunna be a lot of money
He says Gatwick surviving is currently 50/50 and that’s with a summer planned in
I assume the Gov would buy it/bail it out - but that’s gunna be a lot of money
surrey jim
Not in Surrey
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/flights-uk-scilly-channel-islands-b1845774.html
Mad to think the busiest routes from UK airports are now Lands End to Scilly Islands and Guernsey to Alderney
Mad to think the busiest routes from UK airports are now Lands End to Scilly Islands and Guernsey to Alderney
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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Many aviation companies only going to make it through the summer by punters saying bollox to it and going to the same amber countries they go to every summer
Grenada have had 44 cases since this started and are on amber lol
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Going by the data
The Caribbean island of Grenada not making the UK’s green list today is a "huge blow for holidaymakers and the travel and tourism sectors", its minister for tourism says.
Dr Clarice Modeste Curwen says there have been just 161 Covid cases since the start of the pandemic and no new cases since February.
She says the country has seen no imported cases after welcoming back overseas travellers and 65% of visitors were vaccinated before arrival.
She says no resources had been spared in putting in a "stringent, rigorous and successful programme to control any spread of the virus".
She says 90% of hotel workers have been vaccinated and regular genomic sequencing is carried out to check for variants.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Blimey I’m glad I don’t go abroad....keeping up to date with it all
Britons who are fully vaccinated against Coronavirus can enter France with proof of a negative antigen test starting next week and do not need a “compelling reason” to be in the country, according to new rules released by the government on Friday.
Fully vaccinated is defined as two weeks after the second dose of an EU-approved jab, which includes all jabs administered in the UK.
Until the changes, which take effect on June 9, anybody entering France from the UK is required to have a “compelling reason” to do so and must promise to self-isolate.
Britons who are fully vaccinated against Coronavirus can enter France with proof of a negative antigen test starting next week and do not need a “compelling reason” to be in the country, according to new rules released by the government on Friday.
Fully vaccinated is defined as two weeks after the second dose of an EU-approved jab, which includes all jabs administered in the UK.
Until the changes, which take effect on June 9, anybody entering France from the UK is required to have a “compelling reason” to do so and must promise to self-isolate.
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sydney
tinky ****in winky
as you say.... just spend your money at home , if you have any.
just spend your money at home , if you have any.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Sort of comes under this thread
Easyjet moving planes from UK to Germany as a result of European govts more flexible policies on travel: "We are seeing European governments progressively opening up using frameworks in place which enable travel and much of it restriction-free...
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1404789937334013955?s=21
Easyjet moving planes from UK to Germany as a result of European govts more flexible policies on travel: "We are seeing European governments progressively opening up using frameworks in place which enable travel and much of it restriction-free...
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1404789937334013955?s=21
U.K. aviation is ****ed
Following the science though, just a different science to other countries that seem to trust vaccination/testing.
Weststander
Well-known member
as you say....
UK households have saved £180b during the pandemic, from having little to spend on. BoE figures. There’s low unemployment due to furlough and WFH meant jobs carried on.
Many people are holding onto their cash, until they can holiday overseas again.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
The Guardian painting a mixed picture on unemployment figures
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/15/uk-covid-jobless-rate-rishi-sunak-furlough
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/15/uk-covid-jobless-rate-rishi-sunak-furlough
sydney
tinky ****in winky
you know you'll be back in lock down by october don't you...?