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Fugzilla ran out of Lidl vodka. When the next giro day comes around he'll be back in ramping mode.

"The US receives at a minimum $1.5 TRILLION from Tourism per year, and pays for 8 million plus jobs in the US."

1 trillion is 1000 billion, or 1x10^12. 1 million is 1x10^6 .

So, 1.5x10^12 / 8x10^6 = 187,500. As the 8 million is expressed as a jobs head count, that means they are earning on average $187,500 each. Are you sure about the data??????

Sadly, in the States, the vaccination program was politicized from the start a little like the EU UK saga. In the States, the Democrats are the EU and the Republicans the Brits. The Democrats have been name calling and spreading disparaging remarks to knock down the Republican vaccination areas and the Democrats are constantly trying to present themselves as the sophisticated ones being more advanced and better vaccinated. At first glance when the colour coded maps of vaccination rates and political state colour are put up for show, the commentary seems to fit. Southern and central states poor vaccination in Republican areas, North East states high rates of vaccination in Democrat areas.

But look at little closer look and things are not quite what they seem. Normalized maps resizing states according to population show that the more densely populated areas have a higher rate of vaccination than the more rural and 'wild' country areas - and this is seen everywhere and is due purely to the logistics of mass vaccination in urban, sub-urban and rural zones. The point of note, next time one of these colour coded maps is put up, do a quick count of how many states are being used to make the narrative. The one I saw on Friday I think it was on the evening news was less than a dozen against 58 states and the north eastern seaboard part relied on a a number of very small states bunched up together and most of the states were just greyed out.

Why is this important? Well the opening up of the US to UK travel is being based on vaccination rates as one measure. If the data is being politicized then those vaccination rates are going to continue to be presented in a way that counts against opening up travel. Media over there is still punch drunk on trying to express everything connected with Trump as an absolute negative irrespective of the real world facts. We all are continuing to lose out because of this. Something is badly wrong in democracy with media running wild like this, and on the climate change hysterics. It is going to be difficult to see when US is going to open up whilst the Biden administration keeps bowing and doffing it's cap at the troll media narrative.

I'll give you some guidance, stop following the lead of completely anonymous people on a public bulletin board! Some will convince you to sell just for a laugh. Trust your own instincts and give your money to a professional fund manager or chose a fund from your trading account.

Exactly as I said it would back on Tuesday I think, it would end the week where it started. Those that pedantically monitor my posts will pounce if my memory has played a trick on me. How did I know, simple. If you have followed anything I have said, the market does not trust anything of government policy anymore and the expected sabotage that the market was expecting did happen, this time it was the testing regime used as the spook. There is all out war in Downing Street Boris must now see the lockdown faction is not fit to be in government and he must reshuffle, get rid of Gove!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The selective references, deliberate misdirection and all the shady tricks in the book, eh IAGLong????? Of course, nobody noticed what you did there. Nobody had that little ping in the back of their mind. In trying to lure people away from considering any points I make, you in fact draw their attention to them and seed their minds with the question, what is IAGlong so worried I might see in Big-Blues ramblings?

"Does that mean you won't be posting anymore from November? "

Maybe one post in November, "I told you so"

Fugazila, there will still be travel, but it is probably going to be reset back to the jet set level of the 60's and 70's. Those wishing to stop or at least very significantly reduce air travel from now on based on some bogus notion that that is going to have any effect on anything at all, are most likely looking to the reduction at the moment as an opportunity to condition people into living without flying in their lives. It is like all the other nudge theory with mercury laden light bulbs now filling up landfills and building up to a lethal pollution problem in the future, eating processed vegetable so called meat replacements without any proper studies on the health implications for bodies that evolved over millions of years on a predominantly meat based diet, and the insane plastic bag policy that removed the number of bags to be replaced with much heavier bags that in sum total have used 5 times more plastic than the thin carry out bags - and all that despite the plastic in the ocean problem actual due to tsunami debris, as the locals i the Maldives explained to me. They'd never seen a Tesco plastic bag and never had a single plastic straw wash up on their beaches!!!!

As explained on so many occasions now ....... forget it, your opinion is of no consequence anyway - you only want to hear your own ramping voice. You've fallen in love with a share, you'll ultimately pay a heavy price for it.

If people do not keep a 360 on the world around them and what factors may affect their investment, including left of field and isolated possibilities, you are simply never going to succeed as you will always get caught out.

I am going to say there is a 75% probability that limited furlough extensions will be granted. It means the lockdown lobby will be able to keep the travel restrictions reduced. The forced reduction in flights is very definitely by design and the case for it due to the covid virus gets weaker and weaker as every week of vaccinations passes by. Again, the environmentalist lobby who were so loud and vocal pre-pandemic trying to stop air travel are so, so, so quiet. It's almost as if they wouldn't want to draw attention to the reduction in air travel and the deliberate reductions going on. Remember, climate activists are in all positions in society, from business leaders to bin men, from senior cabinet minsters to inner city councillors. They have a common cause and act alone towards the common cause. There is no counter balance to their activities nor cross-examination because the media, especially TV, is swamped with them. Eventually the pandemic will no longer be able to be used as a cover for those individuals, and we will find out, at this November cop meeting, just how much damage is to be done to our freedom to travel. I will not be holding any share in the travel business at that moment. The day of the airline apocalypse is not far off now. And if you don't believe me, did you ever think a policy to stop petrol/diesel car manufacturing planet wide would ever get any where near being seriously discussed? Well it is being implemented her and in dozens of other countries in just over eight years [yes 8] time. This summer is probably going to be the last time profiteering in shares in this sector will be possible. It is a cultist mass hysteria and there is nothing to stop it.

Thank you for illustrating and proving my point so elegantly johnbri4.

I post that there continues to be confusion being spread to spook would be travellers. You retort that I am full of !verbal garbage diarrhea" and then go on to spell out the very sort of issue I raised that you find troubling and will affect travel.

For other readers, I should point out I have not paid JohnBri4 nor arranged his post in anyway. He posted his comments all by himself.

And for somebody who you say doesn't own any airline stocks, you need to pop down to specsavers and get some reading glasses. I constantly mention I am currently in Easy J and trying to guess the best moment to jump into IAG, which is why I am here on IAG and nowhere else.

You are the gift that just keeps giving!

The manner in which the bloc is traded as a one I have raised and even going so far as to suggest the FCC might want to look into the patterns. I have long expressed a wish for the shares to decouple, and am suspicious as to why they haven't given IAG has a significant reliance on a market that Easy J is not involved with in any way. It is still irrelevant against the overall strategy, if circumstances allow. One day, the US routes will be reopened. When? Many thousands of pis are making daily decisions guessing when that may be and taking positions, or withdrawing positions, accordingly. I have been open about my strategy - on taking profits with the likes of Easy J, switch to IAG a head of US routes opening up. Whether I add 2%, 5% or 55% on top of any Easy J gains doesn't matter. The switcheroo is icing on the cake. If I am lucky, it will be a thick marzipan and royal icing layer with a cherry on the top. But a simple kitchen made runny drizzle topping will also suffice.

Of course the whole thing could go horribly wrong and I end up with less than half my stake money due to travel collapse, rights issues, and new pandemics. If that is the end result, I have a full bathroom refit paid for out of the profits to date, a lovely new larder fridge which is already full of veg crap I'll never eat [let her be the rabbit, lol] and overall with other profits I will just about break even cash wise ready to buy the tickets to the next trip to the states, although I almost booked Dubai as a long weekend quickie the other day.

sundezena, you should pop down to specsavers! Your myopia is getting worse and worse.

no surprise it is dropping, the 'increase' late yesterday was to clear an order, not the sp trend which is down. Why, the lockdown lobby have been successful in spooking travellers. Any confusing discussion about travel list definitions, risk of being caught out [Mexico does not inspire many at the moment], vaccination false costs or which ones can and can not be used, climate change guilt [which is getting more pronounced] and hinting that Johnny Foreigner is oozing covid pus on the sun set beaches and should be avoid at all costs. Our glorious propaganda media outlets lap it up and gleefully repost, retweet, rebroadcast the crap and the spooking continues.

If you ever wanted an example of opportunistic crass indignation, just look at the response to Boris's Thatcher quip. The trade unions laid much of UK industry to waste with strikes and restrictive practices through the 70s. It is such a falsehood trying to pass it off as a Thatcher thing. Boris's attempt at a serendipity joke was a bit ham fisted, but the response to it is just mind numbing. I really hope Downing St stands its ground. It is the kind of posturing politician that we hear this morning with cheap knee jerk reactions of outrage and indignation that have made this pandemic worse than it needed to be, and keep sectors like travel under thumb and force this bloody stupid idiot mask wearing policy.

It is looking like the lockdown lobby are pushing total confusion over what test is and is not acceptable and the potential for being caught out. People on a campaign high will do everything and anything to force their agenda on people whether they like it or not. Suddenly PCR, lateral flow are crossing over as acceptable and not acceptable. Confusion reigns. It is a deliberate act.

I say again, look me in the eye and tell me this is not sabotage!!!!!!

skyscanner, whizz air £206 return LTN to DXB.

Yup, £206. 21st Aug to 29th non-stop.

Is that real? I'll give it to Sunday afternoon and there will be no seats left in August or September.

There are some draw dropping bargains out there. PCR tests not looking so expensive now!!!!!

dubai came under PP scrutiny earlier on, wonder if she has got over what was blind female jealously of those 'yung und vild' pretty little 'influencers' or whether going to throw another bit.chy wobbly and reign 'em in again.

thanks for that, Lurkio.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/08/05/boris-johnson-news-covid-vaccine-holidays-quarantine-brexit/

Told you so. Hard cross-questioning leading the answer for the quote, then to be plastered as far and wide as possible that quarantine could be re-introduced. Hence the continuation of the fear of being caught out again. Earlier Shapps was saying on news clips that people could now go on holiday 'without looking over there shoulder'. But the lockdown lobby is still beavering away to sow seeds of uncertainty as far as possible. It is a shame the Telegraph is on the bandwagon, but this is the sort of highly selective re-casting of answers that is taken up. This time round we need absolute firm quashing of false and twisted reporting. Either travel is opening up or it isn't. An absolute statement must be made else it is going to be three more weeks of this crap spooking travellers. Look me in the eye and tell me this is not a deliberate sabotage of travel!