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busy airport means not enough staff on the desks. 5 out of 32 border desks open. Covid or not, that will cause a long que even at 3am on a Wednesday morning. You have a knack of completely missing point of the story or the numbers in the data.

Yuck! If they breed I dread to think of the resulting shape of their binomial's distribution, mind boggles!

yeah... keep it coming coole boy. Very amusing. By the way, do you happen to work for the Tyndall center for climate change research by any chance? You seem to have the necessary mathematical analytical skills to produce the kind of results they come out with, lol.

" any of these numbers are outliers"

You see, this is where you give away just what your words are about. They are meaningless gibberish and trying to play the wounded lamb card to illicit tea and sympathy just compounds the fact.

Outliers are by definition data points so far removed from the main sequence they may be disregarded. It is a description confined to a very small set of data points and then to be removed with care. Under no circumstance of any form of analysis can 'any' data point be considered as equally an outlier to any other, otherwise they are all equivalent and therefore part of the whole data set since none are outliers if they are all outliers.

You can't fake this kind of stuff.

The politics of US to UK and EU relations has changed quite substantially since the new regime came into office. In some instances but not all as is being revealed. Merkell moved quick to try and lock the US into a close EU relationship and cold shoulder the UK. The free access to US travellers was not reciprocated. To that end the cooler diplomatic relationship between the EU and US compared to the UK and US seems to continue. Certainly Biden regards the UK as Trump lite and with the psychotic madness that set in against Trump egged on by astonishing troll media broadcasts 24/7, he and Pelosi along with a host of other Democrats started off cooler to the UK. But with some direct dealing and Biden's rapid education on how much US forces do actually rely on UK forces, troops, equipment and intelligence with the sudden change in circumstances in Afghanistan, especially with the UK special forces still there helping out (oh yes they are!) The Biden administration does not seem to be so flippant and dismissive of the UK now. The 'normal' more 'special' relationship between the UK and US is being slowly restored. In my opinion of course. It is CRITICAL the UK does not follow the EU reimposing travel restrictions. It will be seen as a political act. Free travel for all US citizens with double vaccination. Keep the policy and I will predict the US will open up much sooner than to the EU. It may have political connotations about it, it was Trump who was supposed to be the one reacting like a spoiled brat but instead it will most likely be Biden getting angry and throwing his toys out the pram and throwing hissy fits that directly affect policies. Downing St must have figured out by now Biden has the potential to dance like a puppet for the UK when stroked in the right way!

On The Beach is starting selling holidays again. Positive move indicating more confidence returning to the holiday sector. This can have a knock on effect raising confidence levels amongst potential customers for all operators. A stepping stone in the right direction.

My god you are full of it aren't you collebnji?

Your analysis of a vastly deficient data set is simply ridiculous. It makes no sense at all since it is not compared with any pre covid data set. There is no definition between private, chartered or cargo flights. For all you know, you have simply noted an increase in Christmas market toy exports to Germany. You have no derivative calculation to obtain a rate of change on you dodgy data but still declare a trend????????

Stringing together words and phrases that sound impressive expecting them to make some sort of sense simply doesn't work where real maths and real statistical analysis. It is very easy to fake text in the social sciences and the like as seen frequently in the science wars in the 1990s. But doing it the other way round doesn't work. You are making an idiot of yourself, it shows clearly you have absolutely no idea what you are doing or what you are talking about.

Except trade unions are involved. So when the transatlantic routes do finally open the pilots will go on strike. I bet you a fiver.

Stringing random words together to create gibberish, and two people give it a thumbs up.

I rest my case.

This is why so many pis are so easily separated from their money on a permanent basis. Trading on a belief system that there is a rational force consciously guiding the sp based on numbers from before on elective terms. The only historical influence is what values are assigned to the coefficients in the computer algorithms. Even machine learning is governed by human induced seed coefficients. There is no consciousness within lines on a chart, nor elective decision making. If you truly believe in this, you are mug. Keep paying the subscriptions for whatever service you pay for. Meanwhile, i need to make some investments in snake oil merchants, people are paying for this rubbish - I might as well pocket some of their hard earned cash.

next you'll be claiming if we all take up yogic flying will help the sp past 250. Well?

Get the mats out Julie.......

collective consciousness.... ??? wu, wu wo WTF? You're well off your trolly son. Go and look up 'consciousness' in a dictionary.

No wonder the human world is in such a bloody mess. There are people amongst us that actual think like this. Of all the planets in the universe, I end up on this one - an actual lunatic asylum. What did I do that was so wrong in my former life as a sparrow in Spain? Honestly, the crap some of these people believe in!

"price has attempted its first challenge on the downtrend"

The 'price' is not a sentient being consciously attempting anything. Anthropomorphising animals is bad enough, but doing that to a share price is just insane. It is no surprise when people come out with this kind of nonsense to also hear people claiming that climate change is somehow linked to the existence of human beings despite the fact that a thumping great huge planet is at the center of everything and mankind is trivial on impact to the planetary systems. Snake oil chartists should be banned from discussion forums like this.

There is the probability of a major failure when the last armed forces leave Kabul. There is a significant danger of a plane being brought down just after take off. Unless there is a covert operation to move the forces out on land to helicopters nearby out of SAM range each one of those last planes is extremely vulnerable since there is no radar or interceptor missiles left on the ground. This is going to be a real nail biting finish. The attack on the airport shows the terrorist forces are mobile. Trading on Tuesday might be very muted if it all goes wrong. Just hope that the last part of the airlift goes OK and all the aircraft make it to their destination in one piece.

It's going to be a long weekend in more ways than one.

Look at your circumstances around you. You are lucky, you are not in kabul nor trying to escape it. Remember how lucky and privileged you are. On this one, put your hand in your pocket and put a fiver in the collection tin.

"Previous attempts by BA go down the 'budget' route failed miserably."

If I remember Go was successful and sold to Easy Jet for a very large profit. I remember blagging my way on the flight deck of Go on many flights to Italy, them were days........ I think BA decided to take the money and concentrate on transatlantic to keep Virgin in their place when they realised Virgin wasn't some sideline hippy operation and was a very real competitor. Fortunately BA had concorde to keep one tick ahead of Virgin and then decided to retire concorde in a manner ensuring nobody could take the planes and use them against BA. I am still seething with anger today that they didn't let the nation have them. We can keep knackered old Tiger Moths flying, but not one single concorde. Tut!

Peders, they are traded as a sector by algorithms. As the travel affects one, it is traded as if it affects all. There is some cross trading within the sector on some days. It is an up down sequence aimed at bringing pi money any moving it to ii accounts except when huge news drops like when the vaccine was discovered. The iis computers trade on the perception of not knowing what is happening so the computers march the sector up the hill, then down again. They are almost playing market maker rules.

1000% incorrect fugaiz, markets and businesses run on market forces, not technical analysis. That is why technical analysis id many orders of magnitude wrong compared to being right!

It is completely incorrect to say 'only' people who hold a share may have an opinion on it. It isn't some sort of exclusive membership club. People thinking of investing are entitled to say why they are out for the moment, to probe others for insight to help evaluate buying in and exercise their right in a free society where freedom of speech is supposed to be sacrasant. I am not aware of any amendments to the right to freedom of speech that restrict participation only to those who hold a share, drive a particular car brand, shop at a particular supermarket and the like. It says much more about the commentator's paranoia seeking to exclude people from being involved than it does about those who comment but do not, at this precise moment in time, hold any stock in xyz plc.

OK suckers, the ramping crews are back out. Cash in those premium bonds and withdraw those pension funds. The next Duke of York cycle is ready to begin. Let's get all that lovely pi money into the iis accounts as fast as possible; need to put down a heft deposit of the iis Christmas do on Safari in Kenya this year. Thank you for all the pi contributions to date. It is wonderful to see so many idiotic gullible investors still chasing get-rich-quick schemes these days. Keep the dosh coming, and again - thank you. ;)

"Free travel will return in days weeks"

I love a bit of optimism, BUT!!! Can we do real world optimism please......