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360! France withdraws diplomats from USA. It may sound like something far removed from something that might affect IAG. However, this is extraordinary and exceptional. EU has not been in the loop at all re nuclear subs for Australia and will side heavily with France against the US. At the moment UK not begin dragged in too far, but this is a major diplomatic incident and these things tend to have knock on effects that can not be predicted.

But when in October does the PCR get dumped? Before, during or after the half-term school hols?

SO whilst you're all bouncing off the walls at the travel list changes, just after 7pm [off book trading ends] an RNS is published....

Latter, latter, latter.

THe announcement is always being made latter.

Meanwhile Bath Christmas fair os to be cancelled because of, because of, wait for it, wait for it, because of brexit. Yeah, what a pile of . Be warned, you are going to get years of this utter crap never ending until either the UK is forced back in or the EU breaks up. Every single tiny issue that can be expressed as a negative is going to be 'due to brexit'. Forest fires in Australia? Brexit. Dead whale washed up on Spanish beach? Brexit. Empty shelves? Brexit [ignore the fact the shortage in drivers was being raised before the brexit vote itself, it is pan European and some countries have a bigger problem than the UK and remember that the macho just-in-time supply chain was always going to collapse under the smallest stress because there is no buffer capacity in the system].

SSP has a major push to 6% now, that indicates a significant expectation from the travel review. I wonder how long it will take for Italy to drop its covid test entry requirement.

but couchman, who's buying? pis or iis? And who is selling shares for the other side to buy?

Raffles, those who sold in the 130's may not have sold right now, they would probably continue holding being carried along on the travel news shake up wave into the weekend. Would have sold just before market close? I doubt it. So if the RI is dropped with the sp at a high point after the market closes, then on Monday they could be looking at sub 100. It is horses for courses, and nobody should ever look back and say, what if. You will never achieve peace of mind doing that.

So kicking themselves now or breathing a sigh of relief on Monday?

Yeah, you're all throwing your money in the pot. What perfect circumstance does that create for the board? Yep, still no denial over the RI rumour form the credible source. How many times have we seen this before, ramp up in share price, ri slams everything back down again.

Done the Maldives, alright but nothing to write home about - lot of home grown rubbish dumped in their own sea, done Sri Lanka, take the tea train, lovely journey especially if like me you got to ride up front in the drivers cabin :)

If the inbound test is going to be removed, then that will be a very significant move. However, a lot of countries continue to require pre travel covid tests so that expense is still there. Also, the 2 day test after returning? Being dropped from PCR to lateral flow will certainly help. The countries that do not have require pre entrance tests will be the main targets for half-term. So it might be better to pay for a pre visit test to a country that requires a test because it'll be devoid of fat ugly British plebs rolling around drunk in the streets. Ha, lol.

SSP, the bellweather is on a strong surge again. Indicates footfall in the airports is expected to increase a lot, and this is now out of season. Future headlines, thousands of parents offered amnesty for taking children out of school for in term time overseas holidays.

"Now, hopefully all this s-hite about a RI will go away!"

Can you post a link the the CS retraction or IAG announcement saying there will not be one please. Nothing is showing in the RNS feed.

"Long Covid may be less common than previously thought, according to the Office for National Statistics" from BBC.

I think when the enquiry gets underway properly, there are going to be some bombshell revelations. The death rate vastly overestimated, long covid nothing like people have reported, vaccine side effects not actually linked to the vaccine, masks enabled superspreading causing localised spikes in numbers, overall death rates were higher in pre-pandemic years, more flu deaths than covid deaths actually occurred in pre pandemic years, scientists seriously abused their position and influence to conduct mass population experiments through testing and treating the UK as a laboratory of lab rats, industry lockdowns were largely unnecessary.

Mining ramp alert!

I note how the Easy J is pulled back 1% and IAG is pushed forward 4% today, levels up the overall gain for the last couple of days to be about equitable. Funny that isn't it? And how many times are we seeing airlines with quite different business models and markets moving up and down as one in share price? Conspiracy? Well, it looks just a little bit toooooooo obvious today!!

Never do business on the other side of the planet. Twiddling thumbs waiting for China to get to the office................... boring.....................late night TV is so crap........................... run out of biscuits.........................bored. answer the fuc/ing email, wake up.....................lazy little, nice tea though.

hey, I'm gonna stick up for air lickin Bemgi. At least he had the balls to make a chartist prediction for end of Sep sp. When they drop in a few years, he can pop over to Pattaya and lose it. Itchy crabs but worth it Bengi ;)

It could go up, it could go down. It won't stay the same.

Ri maybe, or maybe not. The silence on a response to the rumour is deafening.

I think I'll get a nice fat rib eye and marinade it in whisky for Friday evening.

Loved this, hilarious

Commenting on the new AUKUS pact, one astute commenter posted

"Just as well France is involved otherwise it will be called the FUKUS"

Now THAT is funny, lol.

Blimey! Easy J rocketing up 7%. The leaks must contain some very good news. Can't wait to hear the news. Interesting that the firm announcement date of the 1st October has been brought forward two weeks. I wonder if the EU has had to swallow some pride and admit it can't last long without some hard currency from the UK to prop up it's Mickey Mouse currency.

benji, I haven't revealed my full hand yet.....

LLoyds, the government hasn't yet announced anything!!!!!! 1st rule of the markets is do not make an assumption. What tends to end up in the policy very often is not quite what you were expecting. The critical thing is whether the lockdown lobby will again move to find some form of sabotage of any opening up of travel. And there is a lot in the detail to look out for. For example, removing the pre travel outbound test is meaningless as most countries require a negative covid test before arrival. I confirmed that if flying out on a short shopping [errr business] trip, and returned within 72 hrs, could the outbound lateral flow test be used for the fit to fly inbound and it was confirmed. If the outbound test is removed, I will still need the test for the inbound, I will still need the outbound to enter Italy. So at the end of the day the lockdown lobby may have preserved a non change policy. Now in the case of Greece, you just need to show your vaccination. But what is the probability that the lockdown lobby will conjure something up for people flying to Greece?? On past performance, pretty high.

UNLESS - unless the lockdown lobby has been stopped. Greece will be a good test. Will the UK still require a fit to fly from every country? If a country has very low infection and high vaccination, would a fit to fly form that country be required? We'll see. And then, the 2 day test, switching to a cheaper lateral flow rather than PCR. That's the proposal, but will the lockdown lobby find a way to force 2 lateral flow tests. The lockdown lobby has significantly sabotaged travel so far, I want to see hard evidence they are in a box with the lid firmly nailed down.

I think the best place to assess how free we are will be Greece as it will be a very high volume route for the half-term and only requires vaccination proof for entry. So no outward test. How many of the return leg?? That will be the question.