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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wizz-air-passenger-numbers-rose-30-in-2021-271641280814

We know Vueling has a high flight number, so read across by iis should mean IAG is presumed to also have good numbers, especially late in 2021.

https://simpleflying.com/iag-airline-most-flights-2021/

Interesting info.... Wonder how this will change in the first few weeks of 2022.

https://simpleflying.com/ba-euroflyer-network-competition/

I don't think the marketing department thought through the name very well. There a lot of people will avoid anything with those 'Euro' in the name, no matter how irrational that is. BAFlyer or UKFlyer or maybe GatwickHub!

Thank gawd for that, pop ups blocked with a chrome extension...... was doin' me 'ead in.

WOW Hexham, that was so clever, dear me, didn't see that one coming,

durrrrr.....

Still wrong damnFOOLman, maybe less than 5% of my time participating on this bb. Have much more important things to do like watch some paint dry.

It's an interesting failure of people to put up the face of never give in, even when there is simply no argument left. Even when everybody can take out a calculator and actually demonstrate to themselves what the reality of the world is, they still carry on in a weird parallel universe. Maybe twist the words, maybe nobody will notice? Confuse and obfuscate the context, maybe that will cover it up? No. Nothing works. The answer is still exactly the same on the calculator. The meaning of the result is still the same and hasn't magical transmogrified into some alternative meaning. To rise from one number to another still needs a specific multiplier, profit is still calculated as it is and the total remains the same by any definition as it did before.

IOP, bit obvious.

Funny you should say that Bobbins, whenever I see a Lufthansa or Germanwings aircraft the hairs stand up on the back of my neck and I have this urge to fire an anti-aircraft gun at it. Grandfather was hold up in Malta in WWII, and yes, the blockade part and after. Must be in the blood.

"if I am told the sp changed 0%, I have the start price, 142 plus the change, 142x0=0, giving me and end price of 142."

I can only assume you have a very significant loss of face over this now and have resorted to full troll mode trying to assert through nothing more than bloody minded obstinance that your unique version of mathematics should prevail. You obviously read the statement and realised what a stupid error you made, the key word is 'change'. I don't know what your mathematical background involves but a certain degree of mathematical illiteracy must be involved. I've got two science degrees, the first in physics and I'm a chartered engineer. My calculus is a bit rusty all these on but I still can hold my own.

In trying to answer back, you are just making a complete fool of yourself and it is very sad.

Apt avatar name, DyamFOOLman!

If something changes by zero percent, you still have what you started with. You must be quite illiterate to not understand what the change refers to. If the sp changes, goes up a penny or down a penny, that is the change. It goes from 142 to 143, or down from 142 to 141. The change is also expressed as a percentage form the original. the percentage change will be + or - 0.7% in this example. If the start price is 142, the end price is 142, the change is 0. Expressed as a percentage that is 0% I have at the end what I have started with. In calculating the final price, if I am told the sp changed 0%, I have the start price, 142 plus the change, 142x0=0, giving me and end price of 142.

I appreciate some of you are trying to find some clever answerback but you are in fact showing a staggering degree of ignorance in maths and especially percentages.
"a zero percent change in share price results in a share price of ... zero!" has got to be one of the most stupid things posted on here. You might as well give up with your silly statements because everybody here can pick up a calculator and prove to them selves;
142x111%=157.62, whereas 142x211%=299.62
However you want to twist it, to rise from 142 to 300 is not the same as the profit. 111% gives the profit, 211% gives the total. And a change of 0% of 1 whole cake, is still one whole cake.

Stop making fools of yourselves.

Anything multiplied by zero is zero, no matter whether is has a h-bar, percentage or reciprocal sign. You don't need a calculator for that one. I can't see the point of that.

a 'change' of 112% would of course be wonderful. But a change of 12% is exactly what is says, the original has changed by 12%, 12% of the original has been changed the original. So you have the original plus the change value, 12%.

This is becoming a very illuminating insight into the thought patterns of some people here, especially those who have to accompany their postings with nasty vile hate speech. So revealing!

160 by end of Jan [2022!]. That would be a 12% gain [or 112% rise]. I think it will be quite volatile in weeks 2 and 3 because as the world pulls out of the pandemic, there will be messy and very inconsistent end of game strategies. It will be 'change' and a lot of people who have theirs mucky paws on the levers of power are as susceptible to fear change and resist change as anybody else. And lockdown lobbies, expert groups and big pharma have their political positions and will definitely move to keep covid institutionalised. It could be a nervous trading month.

Unfortunately the LSE chat has put all the pop up adds and video box back. The website is a complete car crash with all this crap all over the page, and on every refresh a large video box reappears - even with all the browser and firewall settings set to stop pop ups (they are google adds and therefore have clever clever ways around firewalls which is a direct breach of all security protocols). It is clear the directors have failed to take any notice of the feedback they have been given over this now knackered website. As Twitter will this year fade into a small platform beloved of the liberal left, LSE will fade to a small insignificant platform as users find an alternative and migrate to it. ADVFN could be a popular choice for some here as they can moderate the chat themselves, but I suspect an unmoderated chat will become a temporary home. These companies so routinely wreck what they have chasing a few dollars advertising, rinse and repeat and then can't understand why 3 month later 90% of their subscribers have just gone.

Graham, give yourself a treat never to forget! You should be able to slip this in before a morning meeting.

https://www.viator.com/tours/Phoenix/Phoenix-Hot-Air-Balloon-Ride/d639-5095HOT

Take one for the team Graham, we'll smoke you a kipper - [what a guy].

The movers and shakers in the markets, the iis, deal in facts. With omicron they clearly had their own analysts look at the information and are moving ahead of the politicians. iis won't have ignored the SA information. iis will want to see politicians accept the reality of omicron. I personally think the testing is so complicated and meaningless that it will all be dropped for in bound. And I expect testing to be dropped for travel in many countries. I expect instead the experts to be given an olive branch that voluntary testing will continue and it will be cited that public cooperation has been very high and so the sample size will still be very much larger than they would have had access to precovid monitoring people. That's my guess.

Graham, whether you are flying BA, business class or have the aircraft all to yourself, the destination is still unfortunately the same, lol.

yes VP, I can see now this is way over your head. I'll try and dumb it right down to base level in future for you and some of the other people who read this. You dodged confirming you work in the climate change industrty I note!!