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Just ensure you pull out all your fillings and wear your tin foil hats and you will be fine.

"“This is one of the most delinquent, utterly irresponsible issue I've seen in my aviation career because it involves organs of government and manufacturers,” said Clark to CNN. “The notion that the United States government should sell its franchise for all the frequencies for a large amount of money - somebody should have told them at the time that the risks and the dangers they placed in certain frequency uses around airfields...""

1st contender for quote of the year?

https://gulfnews.com/business/aviation/5g-rollout-near-us-airports-utterly-irresponsible-emirates-president-tim-clark-1.1642658208964

Plain speaking.... hints that money was the issue, not aircraft saftey.

"However, with 2021E net debt of c€13bn, the company may need to issue equity at some point," it said. "We don't think there is an immediate need for this given IAG has c€12bn of liquidity and no major near-term debt refinancing."

I'm going to continue to wait for either formal RNS about financing or results in Feb and statements attached. The sp is what I expected coming towards the end of January. Does the company need to respond to this? Well they dithered and delayed responding to previous broker notes making the situation very much worse for the day sp than it needed to be. I suspect there will be a reissue of previous financial statements, perhaps we could hope for an update stating how much has actually been drawn down. But as before, we will probably need multiple brokers and 'intense speculation' in the city as it was described last time. If there has been no debt drawdown form the government backed loan, then could day trade for a short time to restore my KFC bargain bucket supplies in the freezer!! Otherwise, sitting on the fence watching each detail like a hawk.

Now, this time, don't shoot the messenger. This is the variable that keeps me out of IAG for the moment, and this kind of comment certainly doesn't inspire me. I would have to ensure I have loads of spare cash to buy up any allocation, assuming of course cash raised is through retail investors and there is no unavoidable dilution due to other fund raising routes. These are the factors that have to be taken into account, are real and it's not my fault!

"JPM downgraded British Airways and Iberia parent IAG to 'neutral' from 'overweight'. It said IAG should benefit from the re-opening of transatlantic travel and a pick-up in corporate travel through 2022.

It has also undertaken major restructuring in the last two years and JPM expects it to generate an EBIT margin of more than 10% by 2023.

"However, with 2021E net debt of c€13bn, the company may need to issue equity at some point," it said. "We don't think there is an immediate need for this given IAG has c€12bn of liquidity and no major near-term debt refinancing.

"However, the possibility of an equity issuance rises in the event of further share price recovery, in our view, which is likely to cap the upside potential of the shares at this stage."

https://www.lse.co.uk/news/jpmorgan-upgrades-ryanair-downgrades-iag-bq5vz6ytyc9ccjp.html

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/lead-eu-lawmaker-wants-airlines-pay-their-co2-emissions-sooner-2022-01-20/?rpc=401&

Part of the 360 to consider when putting airlines in a long term portfolio.

"Carolyn Prowse, chief commercial, strategy and network officer at Vueling, said: “We are very proud to announce the development of our international network from London Gatwick thanks to the coordination with British Airways which enables us to offer the best joint product from London to help grow our markets."

Pull the other one!

https://www.breakingtravelnews.com/news/article/vueling-adds-new-spain-routes-from-london-gatwick/

Now BA, part of IAG, has set up chepo flights from Gatwick. Now Vueilng, part of IAG, has set up competing flights. It is almost as if, as if, as if BA is being treated as a future stand alone competitor. The rest of the IAG group setting up rival BA flights in anticipation of BA being sold-off???????????????????????????????????????????????????????

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/971687/british-airways-owner-international-consolidated-airlines-sees-share-respite-as-us-airlines-report-only-minor-disruption-from-5g-roll-out-971687.html

Glass half full?

Old news story about Griffin, and he probably made a decent wedge overall hedging the other way. The idea that a fund manager put down a one-way bet and hope for the best is a bit pie in the sky.

I do not follow 'beliefs', I follow cold hard basic real world facts. There is no 'impartial' reporting of climate change as a BBC correspondent revealed recently celebrating the fact they don't have to apply any balance as a matter of policy and how much easier it is to 'sell' the message. To believe as you do there are 'worsening global effects' simply shows how susceptible you are. You are the perfect mark to milk money from your bank account for the cause. And this is shown to be more true as you believe that the future is 'too terrible to comprehend'. This is a planet we are talking about. The change required to have any measurable effect requires such volumes or quantities that the claimed mechanisms can never physically alter anything on a planet scale. You have a head full of Hollywood films designed to fool you that colossal events can occur in response to minor localised changes. You are a perfect mark for all this climate change crap, keep handing over the money! I won't be emotionally blackmailed into handing over money. My care for the future generations to stop the collapse of society due to major economic collapse like through the forced ending of fossil fuel use, serious environmental damage through mad terraforming projects like trying to remove co2 from the atmosphere [total madness]. Only 0.04% of the atmosphere is co2 and if billions of these extraction machines are installed there will be a major drop in photosynthesis across all plant life completely destroying continents of vegetation and then when natural fires occur they will burn for much longer with a higher oxygen content available. The oxygen balance is just such that natural fires will burn out as the fuel supply goes under a threshold. A marginal increase will see many fires continue long after they were supposed to naturally extinguish. And then there will be the increased alkalinity in the seas and fresh water leading to major extinctions of aquatic life, both animal, vegetation and plankton food chains. And where is the open debate to at least question any of this madness? Nowhere thanks to the complete religious take over of the debate by one side.

And you claim this is not relevant to IAG? Eh? The neverending increase in cost with more and more and more taxes and charges based on the unchallenged environmental crap will result in less and less travel, less profitability, less dividends and less share value over time. It is highly likely that the pandemic has been used to implement a sabotaging of airline travel trying to reduce or 'reset' the industry back to levels in the 1970's as air travel is prime target. You are one hell of a hypocrite to claim to hold shares in IAG whilst spouting all the environmental crap you do.

I hold IAG as and when I think it prudent. I do not think it is prudent at this moment in time due to credit level concerns. This board is not exclusive to current holders.

You need to consider the difference between what is termed 'fake news' and experts and scientists being called out as bare faced 'liars'. That is somewhat more serious than splitting hairs. If environmentalists were merely faking the news it could be debated and worked with. But what has been going on since Mann et al. and the dog leg or hockey stick graph is far, far more serious than fake news and the consequences as they begin to come into view are a real world threat to our ordered society.

And you extra few quid will have zero impact on anything the climate will do. All of the extra few quids will no impact whatsoever. You are simply being mugged by greedy evangelists who are far more concerned with their own quality of materialistic life and social superiority. Carbon dioxide makes up 0.04% of the earth's atmosphere. Plants life is completely incapable of altering the balance of gases, no matter how many trees you plant or natural fires you stop. So every time you pay for carbon offsetting you are simply handing your money over to highly paid busy bodies on various committees and foundations taking a cut of the money pot. And it turned out these people weren't even aware that the trees were worse for the environment and they wanted to carpet bomb billions of square miles with them!!! A major disaster in the making. That's what happens when there isn't open discussion on all sides. But there is a great deal more worse things to come.

I never said "fake news", I said lies because the people who construct this propaganda that is placed at the top of search lists by the likes of google manipulating results knowingly fiddle the data, are selective in measuring techniques to skew results towards a preconceived conclusion and then use false comparatives such as average data to make false scenario claims for easy public consumption. And then, to protect the lies there is a wide network of people to attack and delete any questioning of what is going on. No other field of science or research has such a closed culture of cross examination and that is because it takes a few moments of applying basic real world science, real world observations and real world analysis to wipe out all of the environmentalists claims.

You can fight the good fight on their behalf and assist in g the cover up and promulgating the big lie, but the questions and realities of what is being present are piling up just off camera and will eventually spill into view in the exact same way the expert community is now being outed over the hysterical covid claims.

https://www.independent.ie/life/travel/travel-news/utterly-irresponsible-5g-flight-disruption-eases-as-emirates-blasts-us-rollout-41259478.html

5G

"newly fired burned or parched", evidence! Overzealous management of natural back burning and people setting up homes and businesses in natural fire zones is the problem. Fire is an essential component in natural regeneration and has been a long time before man arrived. Germination of species in those zones only takes place with fire. Stopping it, as the environmentalists do, is causing imbalances and damage to ecosystems. Let the fires burn naturally and stop trying to live in the fire zones!
"more regularly flooded". Drainage intervention by environmentalists trying to landscape environments to fit their personal idea of what the natural world should look like has caused terrible flood problems during natural heavy rain. Water that would naturally run of the land is more and more directed into environmentalists side channels to protect this or that habitat which should be flooded as part of that habitats natural cycle. And as far as sea levels are concerned the tectonic plate movement is responsible for sea level changes which impacts on people who have moved into areas that have always been susceptible to sea ingress which is easily seen by the landscaping and type of vegetation that establish a long time before mankind ever existed.
"melted icecaps", except when the ice extent is extended it isn't reported, when it is regressed it is headline news, but in overall reality the ice caps extend and retreat every single year with NO change in sea level. The data to force fit the theory of disappearing ice caps is highly selective. The north pole is supposed to have disappeared years ago. It had one the largest sea ice extents measured recently.

The natural world does not run on artificial average values. It is dynamic, variable and extents are extreme. The false statistical comparison with averages has been the fraud from the start of this climate crap. It is all about the money and the big lie of climate change needs to be outed and stopped before the environmentalists do irreparable damage to natural habitats and society bankrupts itself back to medieval existence.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/novak-djokovic-has-a-major-stake-in-biotech-firm-developing-covid-19-treatment/cecb1e54-62d9-44a0-8d53-7cba9c577865

What a shocker, it was all about the money. And I can tell you now, 99.999% of the climate change crap and those who sell it all over the airwaves has identical financial interests behind the scenes.

Be informed!

There will be telecom executives with huge bonuses for rolling out on time. To think that the bonus was far more important than potentially causing crashes. The executive will still have got their bonus as 777s skidded off runways. Makes you think just how reckless and how big the lie will go for that big fat bonus.

looks my 5% is coming true but in the wrong direction, oooops!

bobbins, I used to play a flight sim on a tablet. On one trip, I set it for landing at JFK, our actual target aeroplane. I had the sound up enough to ensure the smelly woman sitting next to me could hear every time I crashed it. I made sure she could see my dodgy attempt to land on 5th Avenue. I don't think she was amused!!!

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