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[ronwilkes123] 17/4/2020 15:04

You know there's never been a cure/vaccine for a cold. A cold is Coronavirus.A vaccine is unlikely - therapeutics is the only way out

[albert3591] 17/4/2020 15:01

Whoever gets their guess work correct when they buy near the bottom which we don’t know yet,but must be a while away will make very good gains

[tlobs2] 17/4/2020 14:11

I was amazed that there were any passengers flights still flying in the US. I looked on flightradar24 and the volume of flights was unbelievable.

[philanderer] 17/4/2020 13:42

“I won’t be booking a summer holiday at this point, let’s put it that way.”

With one sentence and a chuckle, the transport secretary crushed the hopes of the UK travel industry for an early resumption in anything like normal business.

Grant Shapps was talking to Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme about a possible resumption of activity when the UK’s current lockdown ends on 7 May.

A spokesperson for Abta, the travel industry association, said: “It was a thoughtless comment and not based on any facts about what we know today about the future of the pandemic, but it shows complete disregard for the UK travel industry, the hundreds of thousands of people it employs and the struggle it is facing in this current crisis.

[philanderer] 17/4/2020 13:40

Afternoon tl , hopefully good news.


Coronavirus: Airport handlers warn ministers of 10,000 jobs axe 'within hours'
Ministers have been told companies, including Swissport, will start axing 10,000 jobs within hours, in a letter seen by Sky News.

[tlobs2] 17/4/2020 13:13

From Fox news..

Shares of Gilead Sciences were up more than 8 percent in premarket trading on Friday after a report by STAT that a recent clinical trial of Gilead Sciences' Remdesivir, an antiviral medicine used as a potential treatment for Ebola, found rapid recoveries in coronavirus patients' fever and respiratory symptoms.

The trial, conducted by the University of Chicago Medicine, found nearly all patients who were given daily infusions of Remdesivir were discharged from the hospital in less than a week. The university recruited 125 coronavirus patients, 113 of which had "severe disease" into two clinical trials to assess five and 10-day treatment courses of the drug.

Kathleen Mullane, the infectious disease specialist overseeing the University of Chicago's Remdesivir studies, told STAT that the results have been promising so far.

“Most of our patients are severe and most of them are leaving at six days, so that tells us the duration of therapy doesn’t have to be 10 days," Mullane said. "We have very few that went out to 10 days, maybe three.”

Although a fever is no longer a requirement for people to go into clinical trials at the hopsital, Mullane said that when patients do come in with high fevers, "they do [reduce] quite quickly."

"We have seen people come off ventilators a day after starting therapy," she added. "So, in that realm, overall our patients have done very well.”

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Fingers crossed :-)

[once bitten1] 17/4/2020 09:22

BA apparently making 800 redundant.. This is going to get a little tough for the industry before it gets better .. sooner this Lockdown finishes it's blue all the way

[tlobs2] 17/4/2020 08:07

Disclosed positions in EASYJET PLC (EZJ)

Fund % short change Date changed
AQR Capital Management, LLC 2.60% 0.05% 2 Apr 2020
Citadel Advisors LLC 0.73% 0.08% 15 Apr 2020
Citadel Europe LLP 1.36% -0.04% 9 Apr 2020
Greenvale Capital LLP 1.32% -0.12% 7 Apr 2020
Marshall Wace LLP 0.70% 0.09% 14 Apr 2020
Värde Partners Europe Limited 0.61% 0.07% 15 Apr 2020

Total 7.32%


There are now even more rats in the pit :-)

[rndm355] 16/4/2020 20:26

commentary on ezj here:

[ihatemms] 16/4/2020 20:09

But if you pay for a holiday you expect to enjoy it. Who is going to enjoy any holiday with CV on your mind at the airport, flight, hotel, at the bar, beach, theme park etc. Etc with numerous health checks everywhere and suspicions of everyone ????? Hardly a relaxing break is it. The whole travel is screwed until a vaccine is sorted.

[loganair] 16/4/2020 19:35

Shares in Aer Lingus-and British-Airways-owner IAG were little changed even as British Airways became the first major European carrier to lose its investment grade status amid the Covid-19 pandemic after Fitch cut its credit rating one notch to junk.

The downgrade shows the huge financial stress airlines are facing amid the Covid-19 crisis and comes as EasyJet -- Ryanair’s main rival -- said it will sell some of its planes to ensure it can get through the storm.

British Airways is unlikely to recover its end-2019 capacity level until 2023, according to Fitch’s baseline forecast.

EasyJet, which is Britain’s biggest discount airline, said it had borrowed £400m (€505m) against its jet fleet, and may raise £550m more from selling planes to leasing firms.

[taurusthebear] 16/4/2020 17:01

UK is still operating under EU trade rules. That doesn't come without certain obligations, which you can be sure the EU will make ambiguous, in their favour.

[philanderer] 16/4/2020 17:00

Yes, tricky for sure EJ

[philanderer] 16/4/2020 16:31

Reegarding seating, I would have thought for a start every other row would have to be empty to get the two metre distance.

[taurusthebear] 16/4/2020 15:50

That EU thing is strange. With massive financial implications for the EU, is the UK expected to stump up, given that we are only halfway out?

As for a brave new world after CV, forget it. People are as predictable as sheep. :0)

[clocktower] 16/4/2020 15:13

Did Stelios Haji-Ioannou not sell a lot of stock in the company when he was last at war with the board over expanding the fleet and buying Airbus planes?

He is now having a field day I expect.

[albert3591] 16/4/2020 14:41

Hope Ryanair don’t supply face masks,£50,sir that’ll do nicely

[bc4] 16/4/2020 14:22

Middle seat empty that means 2 people will be no further than 3 feet apart so what good is that? If it is couples not probs

[tlobs2] 16/4/2020 14:11

Very good idea to leave the middle seats empty. Might help bring an end to the lock down for flying nearer :-)