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https://www.ttgmedia.com/news/virgin-atlantic-in-talks-over-fresh-funding-push--reports-31574

Need to be mature and reasonable about the honest prospect for IAG. It's almost a case of not if but when to be honest. The transatlantic routes opened up on the 8th, 14 days later Virgin is starting open talks about needing additional funding! Says it all.

Bad narrative from WHO rep on R4, talking about controlling the virus, and pressing for mask wearing. Still stuck on repeat.

With induction, the thicker the fluid, the easier it is to carbonise the cooking, lol. It's like what a microwave is to conventional oven. And if used correctly, it should pay for itself in lower fuel bills [especially at the moment] in a couple of years.

Early doors bounce back underway, the backlash against lockdowns giving confidence that there won't be any extension.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/business/air-new-zealand-cancels-1000-flights-due-to-continued-border-uncertainty/

New Zealand just don't get it!

https://simpleflying.com/british-airways-a380-first-two-weeks/

Trouble kicking off on the continent. Def the lockdowns have had their day. I see U turns over the week so could see a sharp U turn in the sp next week.

Oh the irony, in the heart of the Soviet EU.... look how they love their oppressive system that they are all supposed to love.

jollies = employee loyalty

no jollies = employee looking at job sites

It is a very basic rule of thumb. If you want them to stay, pamper them. If you want them to go, give them the crap to work, at Seaton Carew, on a Tuesday, in the middle of winter, when it's raining, by train, lead [no commision contract], with the nose-picking graduate who knows absolutely ****ing everything after only 6 weeks on the job and will tell you so and correct you in front of the client.

....... just thought, there is nothing in the story about the luggage!!!!! They look like kitchen sink carriers so didn't they not notice the missing luggage at the Greece airport? And then they are pictured on a ferry in Greece, yet flew to Zakynthos. Why did they take a ferry to and why? The plot thickens.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/ryanair-passengers-rage-wrong-country-25506436#comments-wrapper

I managed to get on the wrong flight as the gate was called just as the other flight was finishing boarding. Only found out because somebody was already sitting in a seat I had reserved. That was some years ago now though. What gets me, your boarding pass is scanned so if you did try to board the wrong flight it would immediately flag at the boarding gate. Furthermore, as they passed into security they would have had to scan the boarding card so the flight they should have been on would know they are air side and the no show would have, or should have, raised a security alert. There seems to be something missing in their story. I also note the pumping of stress and trauma for compensation. Compensation from Ryanair? Ha, good luck with that one. With at least two boarding pass barcode scans to get on a plane, I think there is more going on here. Oh yeah, and all seats are allocated these days so how did they manage that?????

It seems consent for lockdowns has reached its limits. We already knew there has been some serious kickback in Australia with mass protests earlier, and now in Europe where lockdowns are being reimposed there is immediate and violent reaction. Most politicians are very easily influenced by the gods of TV, but rioting on the streets trumps whatever narrative the gods of TV are pushing. And of course other states in the soviet and around the world will be noting the increased antagonism to lockdown measures. UK called it right to switch early to living with covid. There is a vaccine, if you don't take it then you have to take your chances with the disease and if you believe in anti-vax lies then the Darwinian principle will do its job again.

This bodes well for the sector, there will already be a reluctance in various states to bring back lockdowns looking at the rioting scenes. The 'live with it' lobby may get the front foot in the narrative now and so the travel sector will be unaffected and a rebound in sp very quick.

Meanwhile, I note how the mask lobby have been lightning quick to seize on each possible angle of the news. It really is time these people were put under the spotlight and properly challenged. If they succeed in tricking people back into wider use of the masks, then super spreaders will be back out in the community across the EU and the numbers will continue to be difficult for much, much longer than necessary. There is documentary footage available but no broadcasters are touching it. So many have pinned their own narrative to backing the mask wearing that it will be a major loss of face to backpedal, especially since it was known from the start masks were not suitable and most likely potential spreading devices right from the start and the big mask wearing campaigns was really all about being an anti-Trump stunt. Just a matter of time before the plebs start kicking out at the masks now too as it becomes more obvious they are used as a control mechanism by one group of people who presume superiority over another.

Since when have caravans had an upper storey? Otherwise, join the modern world and get induction hobs - a gazillion times better than all other hob types.

Is that short of existing staff to handle enquiries due to so many taking early retirement due to the pandemic, too aggressive a cut back of the workforce during furlough, the 'lorry driver syndrome' not taking on enough and training them ready for the end of lockdown, the wrong people promoted due to the early retirements who are completely unsuitable for the added responsibility [a problem growing in size], or is it they are losing too many staff who have found out how much they can earn as a lorry driver and immediately left for a new carrier eating Yorkie bars?

https://www.argophilia.com/news/jet2-cuts-50-off-deal-for-mobile-app-bookings-by-nov-22/230320/

Pent up demand? Mega revenue streams? There are price reductions galore, people are not returning to flying in the numbers expected [by the ramping crews]. Dose of reality. This means revenue will not be as expected.

Well I've punted a grand on IAG, hope the news from EU halting the spread of lockdowns will reverse the Friday drop so I can get out with a few quid profit. So far the mood music on the continent sounds more waffle to appease their local TV gods rather than rationale policy. Doesn't look good for at the moment for the Monday market.

As long as testing continues, travel will be heavily subdued. As long as governments keep trying to control the spread of a virus, there will be testing. It is starting to look like a deliberate policy like the sabotage policy suddenly changing traffic light status. Suites the environmentalists campaigns just fine. They were so quiet during cop26 on the flying side. Is it because they have essentially implemented air travel reductions by proxy using the virus? The climate change lobby is so corrupt, anti-democratic and scientific fraud I would say there is a pretty high probability the virus is being used as a coercion control mechanism to stop people flying as far as possible.

It is a very worryi oman as it shows the BA computer systems are as knackered as they were before STILL.

https://simpleflying.com/ba-resumes-four-us-routes/

Narrative on the routes BA are opening up and those to come. It is a slow but steady reopening, wonder if they are 'nearly full'.

I have a feeling a difinitive statement on EU lockdown will be made over the weekend. The speculation will drive a response and I suspect it will say no lockdown. It will be presented as a triumph of Soviet EU unified thinking over backward brexit losers. Whatever, just as long as there is finally some sort of common working policy from the Soviet against new lockdowns

Can anybody decode Benji boy's last pearl of wisdom? I think he's sniffing the Sharpies again....

https://www.ttgmedia.com/news/caa-reveals-uk-summer-peak-passenger-numbers-31570

Summer pax numbers CAA

jeeeez benji boy, I appreciate you've just decided to get up but all of this has been flushed out much earlier in the day.