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I haven't posted for a long time, but having spent the last month around Heathrow, I just wanted to tell all genuine holders how things have dramatically improved in the past 2 weeks. First half of September LHR was dead and I mean dead, nothing moved and whenever you saw a plane flying, it rarely was one of ours, when it was, it was always a very small aircraft, incredible and very sad to someone who knows well what the airport looked like pre-pandemic.That's when the news came out LHR was standing 10th in the Euro table of busiest airport, behind Antalya, a name some never had heard of before. Recently things have changed for the better and now, most of the planes flying are ours.It looks right. The number of bigger aircrafts has sensibly increased too and just a minute ago, after a very long time, I saw an A380 again. What a beautiful sight on a clear sunny morning. It is parked in the maintenance area, not sure if soon will go on line, but it's here nevertheless. Surely a positive sign of where things are going. T5 is on some days heaving! Especially on Saturdays and this morning people were queueing to get on the shuttles at one of the most popular car parks on the perimeter road. Didn't see this for ages. Touch wood, if no new, problematic variants appear soon, we should be on our way, much leaner, you can tell that by looking at the airfield, perhaps initially a little smaller, but still the very good airline, with the same great people, we have always been. I trust this sp to fly soon ! All the best to genuine holders
Regards D9, we've seen this going down and up again big time in the past long before Covid, a few more months won't hurt. Wish you luck !
Time will tell. I shall not sell one of my shares, not until we get to 250/300. I can wait, I believe not long now.
We were at 220 very recently and consistently around 200 for a long period of time. At 165 BA is only 17.5% below that, although we now need a 20% increase to reach that altitude again. Keep faith and keep buying, forget the bottom. Those who fish for the bottom cannot have much experience in trading. If one ever gets the bottom, and sometimes it happens, it's just luck. Same on the way up. A measured, steady approach yields better results.
I am 100% invested in IAG just because I cannot buy BA shares directly and I can't be 110% invested either. I know IAG profits come largely from BA and I also know how well BA is managed. All my money, pension, everything is in BA, never let me down. We always get out unscathed when a downturn comes, it spells opportunity. Despite all the gloom and doom you read here, BA will be one of the very last standing, if, as someone assumes, some airlines might go down. Trust the best, just invest ;) The lower it goes the more money you'll make when the dust will settle.
Thank you to those who posted about the 747s flying out of Heathrow. I was out busy, but able to text my son who sent me a video of it. Great !That made my day, much more than the 10% rise. My son is only 9, a BA staff and P.I. in the making, I look forward to the day I'll see him in uniform. Last Christmas I took him for the first time on a Jumbo, our colleagues on the ground and in the air made that a truly memorable trip.The destination didn't matter for once, it was all about the plane. If you like the aircraft, there are hundreds around as cargos, so you can still enjoy seeing it flying. Stay with BA, we are an exceptional company made of thousands of outstanding talents. We will get through this, our customers will come back and Covid 19 will be something we will one day talk about, just like we talk about the 2008 crisis and other temporary stops on the way up in what is the 'secular bull market'. We'll never stop flying !
Very best of luck to you too, we’ll be all right.
Laughoutloud I was on a crew bus, we were on our way to T1 from Compass when the news broke out, however it wasn't clear what happened exactly until we got to Nice. It was a there and back,but our turnaround lasted for hours, with passengers onboard. We eventually made back to LHR late in the evening. What I always remember though is what followed: on my first flight back there were only a handful of customers, no one would talk, everybody's face covered by newspapers, quietly reading. I'm all in on this RI ! Over the last two decades we went through a lot, I've even seen British Army tanks patrolling the Perimeter road at one point. We will get through this too, eventually. This is going to be the sweetest of trade for me: loads and loads of money, once again, courtesy of British Airways. After all... blue is our colour :)
New investor into IAG here. I was in before in 2008 and 2011.Spent more than 20 years with BA and know it well enough to say it is one of the best managed companies the world over. I'm hoping to increase my holding if a RI is called, but if things start moving in the right direction, we might never see one. I have enough shares but will add every time we deep below 160 I also have a feeling at IAG they are looking to expand their portfolio of airlines and will go ahead with a raise to use the funds for acquisitions. At BA we went through just about any crisis: 2001,2008,sars,volcanoes,strikes,etc we will come out of this one too, stronger, as a group. Too many on the board seems to focus on BA only, but IAG revenue is more than just BA North American routes as someone suggested. I wish the very best to all genuine investors here and... we look forward to seeing you on one of our services in the very near future :)