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[glavey] 30/6/2021 11:03

"Uk infection rates now 70 times higher than Germany."

Is that because they've been hugging and kissing each other following yesterday's win or has that yet to filter through...

[taurusthebear] 29/6/2021 15:47

Data not dates - unless it's July 19.

[amt] 29/6/2021 06:47

Uk infection rates now 70 times higher than Germany.
Not that it would help a huge amount but the refusal to put Germany on the Green list is bizarre. Are the Government playing poilitics instead of following the science

[joestalin] 28/6/2021 19:36

Oh dear, how sad, never mind...

[1crackupboom] 28/6/2021 16:25

Redundancies now inevitable with furlough ending. Or all crew to move onto zero hours contract. They cannot pay even basic wage with crew at 10 to 20pc of usual hours. Simulator costs are adding up also.

[1crackupboom] 28/6/2021 15:31

Boris be licking Merkel fanny this afternoon. Very fishy.

[bc4] 28/6/2021 14:38

Spain just announced from Thursday

Spain, beginning Thursday, people arriving from the U.K. in the Balearic Islands will have to show they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have a negative PCR test.
So not quite as strict

[soho2] 28/6/2021 12:16

I feel Europe as a whole will do the same...Magaluffffff seems to very long way. Lol

[taurusthebear] 27/6/2021 20:00

Merkel banning UK vaccinees from unfettered access smacks of ignorance, fear and loathing. A cynic might conclude that she and Macron are engaged in a sour grapes Brexit vendetta. Where will it all end?

[amt] 26/6/2021 07:44

To some degree that is true but the raw data shows infection rates nearer to 30 than 20 times higher in Uk
If you test 5 times as many people it doesnt mean that you pick up 5 times as many infections.
The majority of positives are from people showing symptoms or people who have been in close contact with such people.
Once you get below 5% positivity rate then you have probably picked up 40% of cases. When you get to 1% positivity you probably have picked up 50% of cases.
Germany is about 2% so probably picked up over 40% of cases. The UK 50% of cases.
There is no question that UK rates are much much higher and probably over 20 times higher.
The UK sets these goals of testing huge numbers of people and maybe that looks impressive but its speed of reaction and what is done with the data that is important.
It seems to me that track and trace has had very limited success and once you start getting thousands infected it becomes of very limited use.
I am sure if Germany had rates 20 times higher than ours of a highly infectious variant we would put very strict controls on. As it is we already do despite the data from much of Europe showing much lower and declining rates which is absurd. Grant Shapps said last year when borders were open that no point in closing them as infection rates were similar and this was following scientific advice. Lets face it the Government response to the pandemic has been full of errors but saved by the huge success of vaccines.

[chiefbrody] 26/6/2021 07:17

They're not 20 times higher.If you test 10 times as many, you'll find more ++++ numbers....Our obsession with testing is bordering on hysteria.

[amt] 26/6/2021 06:52

The UK infection rates are 20 times higher than Germany so not unreasonable that Merkel has put severe restrictions on UK visitors in place. The UK decision not to allow travel into UK from much of Europe is illogical but then so have many of the decisions that have been made over the last year.
The Delta variant will probably pick up in Europe and a two month window will have been lost. Then we are into Autumn so we can forget any pick up in flights until next Spring probably.

[joestalin] 25/6/2021 13:26

Not Merkels fault at all then?

[rocketblast] 24/6/2021 21:09

Today is a start with more to open in three weeks. Grant Chaps is an Idiot, clown and fool who should be in a circus. Its obviously a political decision to deter holidays so holidays are kept in the UK to generate revenue from tax gains. I do feel sorry for the travel industry which has been ignored for political gains. The conservative party is led by fools so lost my vote and all those in the travel industry....sad day...

[1crackupboom] 24/6/2021 08:06

Bad news today

[joestalin] 17/6/2021 08:22

Yahoo Finance:- Airline easyJet is preparing to capitalise on a staycation boom with the launch new domestic services.

It will announce 12 new routes on Thursday. Industry sources said that easyJet will fly five times a week between Manchester and Edinburgh. There are also expected to be new ­services to Newquay from Inverness and Liverpool.

Additional flights will be laid on from Gatwick airport as well.

Britons are scrambling to book holidays in the UK after Boris Johnson announced a four-week delay to the ending of coronavirus restrictions.

Better late then never. Cunard have been running a round Britain cruise out of Southampton for several weeks now.

[quays85] 15/6/2021 19:23

EasyJet said in a statement: 'With 50 per cent of easyJet's flying intra-Europe, we are seeing European governments are progressively opening up using frameworks in place which enable travel and much of it restriction-free.

And this relaxation and removal of restrictions has sparked a positive booking momentum across Europe, with the majority of our bookings showing a strong swing towards Europe when in normal times it would be a 50/50 split with the UK.

'We are fortunate that we are able to redirect flying on our European network; for example, we have moved capacity from the UK to Palma to Berlin-Palma flying, and over the past week we have added 150,000 further seats to our intra-European network.

[joestalin] 15/6/2021 12:41

"Well if one member can veto the majority it’s not democracy is it?!"

That is why the EU has wasted millions over 40 years by moving between Brussels and Strasbourg. Belgium and France can veto any attempt to change that cosy arrangement.

Imagine th damage that would be done to the Strasbourg economy if that were "reformed"!

[1224saj] 15/6/2021 10:56

Back where we were before the extended lock down announcement yesterday, happy days :-)