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Teddy,
It's a cousin, not myself. If you're asking me as a citizen with my rights and free speech, is the 14 day quarantine required? I'll be honest and tell you no, I don't think it is.
Look at the stats from March and now. Tell me how a 14 day quarantine is justified when travelling? We all have a responsibility to be responsible, hence the reason we are socially distancing and wearing masks everywhere we go, which again i'll argue, in March, the worst period of Covid, we were NOT advised to wear masks. (Apparently the main spreader)
We have a government that can't make their mind up when it comes to tackling a pandemic they knew about, several months before lock down.
We have the mastermind behind the government, Dominic Cummings breaking strict lock down rules to 'visit his family' in Barnard Castle for 'childcare when he had Covid'. Even though he took a trip to a business which coincidentally, his sister runs, which coincidentally carries out the Covid-19 tests for the UK government.
We have the governments scientific advisor that advised the latest spike in covid will last '6 months' who coincidentally owns 600k worth of shares within the leading vaccine company who have stated a vaccine will roughly be in the first quarter of 2021.
We have the housing market that was first to return to work in the midst of a 'pandemic' which coincidentally is where the majority of the donor money for BJ and the Conservatives come from.
We have a government that are supposed to be upholding the law, yet can't stick to it themselves, most recently breaking international law. The prime ministers father, shopping without a mask on and flouting travelling rules to clean his private villa in Portugal (forgive me if it's a different location)
So I will remind you that if you're looking for responsible citizens then you need to start with the people at the top. Covid is out there, but it's a variation of the flu. It's taking the weak immune systems and the weak businesses.
It's the 24th deadliest killer in the UK at 1.4% with the likes of Dementia being more deadly.
I'm sorry Teddy, I'm an intelligent man and read between the lines. It's not a conspiracy but it's not anywhere near what it's hyped to be.
@Deanmck: Be careful that you don’t erode your credibility by posting flippant remarks about your family members flouting laws that are in the interest of all UK citizens. The rules are there for a reason and I refrained from going to Portugal, with IAG of course, as the 2 week quarantine would have been problematic for me. There is no way I would ever have broken the law, as I am a responsible citizen.
Treacle, totally agree once the testing comes in to play, i think demand will increase. I hope your sister gets her holiday eventually. My cousin left for Turkey yesterday, says it's great to be away from all the hype in the UK, Turkish aren't over-dramatizing everything like the UK are, it's just sun, sand, see and a holiday.
With regards to the 14 day quarantine mentioned today, I don't think he'll be quarantining when he flies back next week.
Tracle24 - I agree with you and I really don’t get why in UK government doesn’t allow to use the rapid test as many country’s. That’s could improve people to book with more confidence and allow airlines to survive
Deanmck - I'm just basing my comments on the demand that was seen for travel when lockdown came to an end at the beginning of June - I don't think there will be a confidence issue for people travelling considering they've now got the app and the rapid tests and the fact that people will no longer need to quarantine is the biggest thing stopping people at the minute.
My Sister has had 2 holidays cancelled in as many months because of the quarantine rules - she was supposed to go to Lanzarote in August but then the Canary Islands/Spain got pulled from the safe list so she ended up going to Greece, and was supposed to be going to Lanazrote today but had it cancelled - partly because we are now in a "lockdown" area and partly for the quarantine rules again - she is supposed to be going to Lanzarote at New Year so I'm sure this example would be similar to a lot across the country.
It’s just more about customer confidence treacle. It’s easy to make the money back by increasing the price.
It’s ensuring the media have stopped the scaremongering and that testing is in place and the quarantine stops. That’s what will drive the recovery.
Same as 9/11, people didn’t want to be near a plane in case it came down. The more life went on and the media stopped focusing on it, the more confidence people got and the quicker aviation recovered.
It will be good to see how quickly IAG recover from where they are now - I know Willie Walsh made a comment about it taking something like three years for the company to recover, but in all reality I think it's going to be much quicker than that. We've seen how supply and demand affects the price of everything in life, and once the flights start back up with the rapid result tests the demand is going to be massive - I think most of the travel/leisure companies will be adding £1 here, £20 there onto their fares so its not going to take that long to restore the company to good health.
I'm not that detailed at things, but perhaps if someone is that way inclined, they could calculate the impact an average price increase of say £5 per seat per flight would have on IAG's cashflow/profitability - to my mind the 3 year recovery is just to enable the company to build up a massive "war chest" to cover them in the event of another pandemic.
Apparently the Chinese who have a national holiday this week have been clambering to get flights and have holidays and according to Skytraker the demand is 86% of what it was pre covid so it just goes to show what we will be looking at here very shortly.