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[azalea] 12/5/2020 08:43

Asia-Pacific market in the red overnight Weak .start in EU majors. If the increase in infections in the EU do not subside, lifting of restrictions will be short lived. .
China is seeing a gentle return of numbers infected.

[spob] 12/5/2020 08:42

UK gov said yesterday, social distancing to be enforced for a year at least

although can't see how that can be enforced on public transport

so i guess they will have to concede to making everyone wear masks on planes and in airports


then there is the other issue of 2 weeks quarantine when entering the UK

and maybe 2 weeks quarantine when landing in another country


so a 2 week holiday would take 6 weeks

not many people going abroad on holiday this year, if that is the case

[bookbroker] 12/5/2020 08:40

I don’t see any difference between cruise ships and planes, cruise ships far more infectious, thousands more people on board, do they all stay in their cabins once on board and meals passed through a hatch. Seems to be optimism about the cruise market, abject pessimism over airlines.

[m1k3y1] 12/5/2020 08:34

Ryanair to fly from July with 1,000 flights a day as UK lockdown eases

[wtacraig1] 12/5/2020 08:27

Ironic that this is a 'flu' virus when nothings able to fly :-)

[montyhedge] 12/5/2020 08:26

At 135p market cap 2.7 billion, about right for a company who don't know what's happening. I can't see a dividend for at least 3 years.Trouble with unions I think has well.

[azalea] 12/5/2020 08:22

There is no way the PM actions will cost him the Tory leadership, after delivering the greatest defeat upon Labour since 1935. No one in the Tory party would want to replace him until he decides to stand down and when he does, the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be my No1 choice to succeed him.

[smartie6] 12/5/2020 08:18

What’s the difference between IAG and an Ostrich?

Nothing, neither can get off da ground.

[montyhedge] 12/5/2020 08:16

No one in their right mind will fly until a vaccine surely. We all know planes are spreaders of colds, flu etc.2 metre rule can't work. 1 kilometre queue to get on a 747, lol

[albert3591] 12/5/2020 08:04

Watfordhornet....subject to what,let’s hear the rest.

[montyhedge] 12/5/2020 08:02

135p my target. Just can't see a bull case.

[montyhedge] 12/5/2020 07:55

Empty planes ?

[sr2day] 12/5/2020 07:54

Sturgeon is doing the right thing.Boris has lost the plot.He lost the plot when he was defiant and was still shaking hands when others were thinking of lockdown.it nearly cost him his life.it may also cost him the tory leadership.

[watfordhornet] 12/5/2020 07:53

Ryanair restarting 40% flights from July

[buywell3] 12/5/2020 07:51

Because France will do the same in the other direction is why

The Channel Tunnel links us

France could leave the EU and do a closer partnership with England based upon Trade and Defence , get perhaps a Scandinavia country like Norway and maybe Switzerland and we have the makings of a decent trading group.

Macron and boris are plotting something he has had enough of Merkel

Germany is going its own way as the EU sinks into a debt morass even worse than ours.

The Euro to go within 2 to 3 years

dyor IMO

[careful] 12/5/2020 07:48

Sturgeon is just trying to be different to Johnson for political gain.
Playing politics.
Johnson says left she says right, Johnson says up she says down.

She is trying to appear like the Scottish PM in waiting.
Fat chance.
How can you be so gullible and fall for this stunt?

It is about time Boris Johnson risked unpopularity, Maggie style, and started to make some tough unpopular decisions.
Stop faffing around and get people back to work.
If they do not know what precautions to take by now they are morons.
Slash payments in the furlow scheme, we cannot afford it.

He should take advantage of the fact that there will not be another election for over 4 years.
Take risks, show them who's boss.

[azalea] 12/5/2020 07:35

I have no problem with leaders in Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland differing with the PM announcements yesterday, for they will and are answerable to the people in their countries, in every respect.
What I do not understand is why the PM has exempted people flying into the UK from France from being made go into quarantine, after arriving.

[buywell3] 12/5/2020 03:05

buywell wonders at what point will a certain large shareholder decide to cut its losses?

Like many clueless pink specs holders currently posting

150p for now

[fjgooner] 12/5/2020 02:55

Re: "When Charles DeGaulle spoke after WW2 that American troops should leave France, Lyndon Johnson, quipped does that include the 71,000 Americans soldiers buried on French soil."

Don't get me going.

But this says everything you'll ever need to know about this galling Gaul:

From Wikipedia:

In his dealings with the British and Americans (both referred to as the "Anglo-Saxons", in de Gaulle's parlance), he always insisted on retaining full freedom of action on behalf of France and was constantly on the verge of losing the Allies' support. Some writers have sought to deny that there was deep and mutual antipathy between de Gaulle and British and American political leaders.

De Gaulle personally had ambivalent feelings about Britain, possibly in part because of childhood memories of the Fashoda Incident. As an adult he spoke German much better than he spoke English; he had thought little of the British Army's contribution to the First World War.

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Not a good return on the British help given both to France and to this ungrateful dude.

[arai] 11/5/2020 23:03

Abu Dhabi's Etihad to offer Melbourne to London flights from May 15

hxxps://reut.rs/2Wn7jq1

[waikenchan] 11/5/2020 22:33

Have to feel for investors that have lost a significant % of their iag investments.

Sounds like the govt are taking a tough stance on this quarantine. Earnings will not be recovering significantly in quarter 3 aswell and this is the peak time when airlines earn the bulk of their incomes. This pent up demand has just disappeared in one statement by Boris.

[loganair] 11/5/2020 20:15

Germany’s infection rate jumped for the second day in a row as coronavirus lockdown measures have begun to be relaxed, the country’s centre for disease control announced on Monday.

Latest figures from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) show that the coronavirus reproduction rate in Germany is now 1.13, up from 1.1 the day before and .83 on Friday.

About 200 workers from a meat processing plant in western Germany have been tested positive for COVID-19. Officials say the virus spread through shared housing for the factory's mostly Eastern European staff. Local residents are deeply concerned.



Attempts to maintain a unified UK-wide response faltered over the weekend after first ministers Nicola Sturgeon, Mark Drakeford and Arlene Foster all rejected Boris Johnson’s new “stay alert” slogan. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are sticking firmly with the "stay home" message.

[isis] 11/5/2020 20:11

In his Hall. ;))

[hamhamham1] 11/5/2020 20:00

Anyway, where's Uncle Albert?