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[spacedust] 03/5/2020 21:28

The unions should go on strike......walsh won't give a monkeys.

Walsh in a win win win win situation

[careful] 03/5/2020 20:49

Walsh has been given the run around in recent years by the unions.
last years strike and one planned for Dec 2019 were successful.
He capitulated.
The unions argued that they deserved an increased share of the success.
So they will understand why they must suffer from the failure.

Now he will go on the front foot.
He is holding all of the cards.

He will succeed in downsizing, an opportunity of a lifetime.
the unions ran out of luck.

[montyhedge] 03/5/2020 20:22

IAG got trouble with the unions coming.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-8280885/British-Airways-braced-legal-battle-axe-1-4-pilots.html

[spacedust] 03/5/2020 20:12

So 1 wk hokidsy requires 6 wks of annual leave. I wont go as 6 wks is my annual kesve tally.

Will people in France get fined and locked up for covering their faces? I remember women of certain background were being fined and locked up for covering their faces due to religious practises??????

[bmnsa] 03/5/2020 19:56

Air flights & rail travel will plummet as most people will be too afraid to mingle. BTW Warren Buffet has sold all Hathaway's Air stocks

[careful] 03/5/2020 19:52

Universities attract vast income from overseas students.
They are losing billions already.
Buy to let investors in university towns have thousands of properties attracting high rents from Chinese students.

If they stop coming altogether or even come in reduced numbers the property market could become a blood bath.

The worse the economy fewer immigrants doing essential lower paid work will return to the EU.
this was already happening but there are being replaced by less useful immigrants from elsewhere

Everything effects everything else. The banks will have impairments.

Economic growth depends upon confidence.
Things look very grim, so we rely on HMG printing money and spending it on infrastructure.

Feeling more like Russia every day.

[smartie6] 03/5/2020 18:36

Ham, very badly you can guarantee it.
But the stupid will continue to invest in other countries rather than their own.
If anything this pandemic should have taught the bright is to invest in the UK first.
Stop outsourcing become self reliant. Enjoy the UK countryside, seaside and towns.

[hamhamham1] 03/5/2020 18:33

The Mediterranean countries are focused on providing holiday destinations. They gotta be hurting.

[waikenchan] 03/5/2020 18:29

Meh, s and p 500 for me. I have realised stock picking is just to inconsistent.

[smartie6] 03/5/2020 17:57

Invest your money in this country. That's one thing this pandemic should have shown you.
For me the thick and self interested just get thicker and greedier.

[loganair] 03/5/2020 17:56

I wouldn't have repatriated many of these people as often it was their own fault they got stuck abroad and therefore their responsibility and not the British Governments.

An example - A British family flew to Spain on the day that Spain declared a state of emergency which the Spanish authorities said they were going to do three days earlier. Then 4 days into their holiday the family got stuck in Spain.

The reason this family said they still went on the holiday was because Spain was still letting in tourists when they departed therefore they were unable to claim the holiday on insurance so they went. Personally then if I was the British Government I would have left them in Spain to sort it out for themselves.

[smartie6] 03/5/2020 17:31

It's also funny that when the shxt hits the fan that people want to be repatriated back to the UK.
Running and screaming that they can't get home. Complete irony.

[smartie6] 03/5/2020 17:28

The world has changed. It's a shame it didn't change earlier. Isn't it true that the affluent have spread the virus especially bringing this into the UK?

[watfordhornet] 03/5/2020 17:26

I would and I think a lot of people will want to get back travelling. As soon as we relax and not have 2 weeks quarantine either side I will be flying.Maybe I am a one off but this country love travelling

[loganair] 03/5/2020 17:25

spacedust - I would also take an extra weeks leave in reserve just in case as while on holiday one may get a little too much sun or a slight cold or a tummy bug all of which may cause one to have a raised temperature and therefore would not be allowed on the return flight home.

6 weeks annual leave = 1 week of proper holiday at the holiday destination.

[smartie6] 03/5/2020 17:23

Who in their right mind would now ever want to travel on a plane?
This industry is clearly bust isn't it?

[heialex1] 03/5/2020 17:19

Never is a long time...

[careful] 03/5/2020 17:11

Things may never get back to the current level which will be seen as a peak.

So many bogus business trips, not really necessary.
Video conference calls are effective if done properly.
Although it takes practice because of a slight time delay if dealing with America or equivalent range.

Millions packing on to aircraft for cut price holidays.
The pleasures of which are grossly exaggerated.
Keeping up with the Jones's.
How many of us will be relieved that we do not have to keep up the pretence.

The airlines are downsizing immediately, so that is their survival call.
Flying will be more expensive again.
Flying to even European destinations in the past was very expensive.

[spacedust] 03/5/2020 17:09

So if I want to go on a weeks holiday to Spain or Turkey or Greece how many weeks annual leave so I need to book? Is it 5 weeks?

2wks quarantine when I entire country of chosen holiday.

1 wk holiday

The return to UK and stay quarantine for 2wks.....i make that 5 wks as my maths is great

[loganair] 03/5/2020 16:40

Following the instigation of worldwide travel restrictions caused by the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, there is still no demand for air travel insight, The Austrian Ministry of Health announced that the current landing bans will also remain in place for a longer period of time.

Therefore, Vienna based Austrian Airlines has decided to extend the suspension of its normal flight schedule for another two weeks, from May 18 to May 31, 2020.

Austrian Airlines can only envisage a slow resumption of regular flight operations in June at the earliest. Nevertheless, Austrian intends to closely monitor the further development and will only resume flight operations when demand picks up again.

“Unlike some competitors, we want to avoid empty flights at all costs. We will only take off when a new start makes sense for Austrian Airlines and when the ease of travel restrictions makes this possible”, comments Austrian Airlines Chief Commercial Officer Andreas Otto on the plans of the red-white-red airline.

[loganair] 03/5/2020 16:32

Berkshire Hathaway, a multinational conglomerate based in Nebraska, had held sizeable positions in the airlines.

According to the company's filings, it had an 11% stake in Delta Air Lines, 10% of American Airlines Co, 10% of Southwest Airlines Co and 9% of United Airlines at the end of 2019.

"We will not fund a company... where we think that it is going to chew up money in the future."

[careful] 03/5/2020 16:30

I accept this special Queen is a force for good.
But things change and it will not always be so.

A bad monarch could be disruptive and difficult to get rid of.

[sr2day] 03/5/2020 16:29

Everybody should retire at 70 if you go by the lockdown recommendation. and i believe this is right as the state pension will sooner or later start at 70.Trump has definitely lost his marbles.As to the Queen,she should do the decent thing and pass it to Charles but then he is also past 70.