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heardy, there are a few surprises from the consequences of lockdown on communicable diseases. As for dubious [great avatar name, very apt], what happened to the crystal clear explanations as to why masks were a bad idea when dealing with such a highly communicable virus such as covid? Have mask miraculously stopped accumulating the virus on every single breath? Is the warm moist environment of the mask and breath suddenly detrimental to the virus? Have people suddenly stopped touching their masks 100 times an hour? Have people stopped touching surfaces like hand rails or doors or shelf products or samples? Have other people stopped touching those very same surfaces for more than four hours after being contaminated? Have people stopped touching their eyes, their mouths or their noses once picking up the contaminated goo from the surface a mask wearer smeared with a concentrated dose of killer virus? At what point did the original advice on mask wearing suddenly become null and void? Why is it that despite significant differences in mask wearing in the US there is no measurable difference in the spread except in locations with spikes due to super spreaders always traced back to a gathering that involved mask wearing? Why is it that that same conclusion is found all around the world? Why did the most extensive organised proper scientific controlled study of mask wearing in Denmark conclude there was no statistical difference between mask wearers and non-wearers?

You save no one, become a potential lethal super spreader, drain resources much better spent elsewhere and litter and pollute the streets and countryside with mask turning up everywhere. Don't wear a mask.

Oh dear, dubious. Are you signed into social networks or something? As I have posted before, those people are a totally different sect. Go back to square one, pandemic. The initial response to masks before the campaign groups, busy bodies and especially anti-Trump brigade adopted masks as a token, an emblem and, as recently described, a comfort blanket. You epitomise the problem so succinctly. Not just masks, but climate change too. Closed mind. Under the spell of media suggestion. Incapable of open 360 rational thought. Wear your ****ing mask if it makes you feel superior to everybody else.

...... and it looks like my prediction that there would be a small rise in covid cases then a drop following the end of lockdown and a sizeable reduction in mask wearing is coming to pass. The rise in cases turned out to be small. The rate of decline in cases will be apparent in the next few days but as long as less and less people wear the super spreading masks, the numbers will continue to fall. I predicted it, it wasn't difficult, and it is happening. All over the planet, there is a direct correlation between extent of mask wearing and degree of spread where people come together. It is absolute. Dump the masks, get rid of the virus.

Right, Friday, full on fish and chips form the chippy [screw the carbs] and large glasses of bison grass vodka and orange. The life.

The recent history of sabotage acts deliberately damping demand, potential campaigns and further restrictions we wouldn't imagine could happen but experience shows all bets should be off. True, the forward prognosis should be very simple and straight forward. But emerging from lockdown and opening up travel should also have been simple and straight forward. That is why I suspect IAG were obliged to put the warning in the RNS and publish a rather sombre tone for the outlook.

Not a good day at the office for IAG today then. Dragged down everybody else with it too. I wonder when the variables and coefficients will be untethered on the trading algorithms. The performance and expected traffic the other airlines are the opposite to IAG based on today's news so the traditional link where BA sneezes, the rest get a cold, is perhaps coming to an end. I am still very confident the IAG will be decoupled from the travel sector and trade freely at some point very soon - especially after seeing what effect it has had on the sector today; sp drops in other airlines that are not warranted due to markets served. Even IAG EU market airlines were said to have traded better being the larger contributes over and above BA. So come on iis, set those algorithms and let IAG free. A 4% drop on Easy J has no qualification based on IAG results. Gotta cut those apron strings and let 'em fly the nest.

I have a feeling monkeys, if you were to toss a coin in a game of heads and tales, your coin would land end on and stay there, lol.

As most of the bb has filtered me such that I am mostly talking to myself, perhaps a good Samaritan could repost the statement for the benefit of all investors,
"In the event that such a scenario were to occur, the Group would need to implement additional mitigation measures and would likely need to secure additional funding over and above that which is contractually committed at July 29, 2021. "

Thank you.

There are some people posting on here who are utterly delusional.

This was a bad statement and warns that unless the Q3 picks up and then much more so for the full market in Q4, IAG is fooked and WILL need more money.

IT IS THERE IN EXPLICIT ACTUAL WORDS

"would likely need to secure additional funding"

which part of that statement is causing the issue????

How can anybody pretends this doesn't exist???

"In the event that such a scenario were to occur, the Group would need to implement additional mitigation measures and would likely need to secure additional funding over and above that which is contractually committed at July 29, 2021. "

"In the event that such a scenario were to occur, the Group would need to implement additional mitigation measures and would likely need to secure additional funding over and above that which is contractually committed at July 29, 2021. "

"In the event that such a scenario were to occur, the Group would need to implement additional mitigation measures and would likely need to secure additional funding over and above that which is contractually committed at July 29, 2021. "

"In the event that such a scenario were to occur, the Group would need to implement additional mitigation measures and would likely need to secure additional funding over and above that which is contractually committed at July 29, 2021. "

"In the event that such a scenario were to occur, the Group would need to implement additional mitigation measures and would likely need to secure additional funding over and above that which is contractually committed at July 29, 2021. "

"In the event that such a scenario were to occur, the Group would need to implement additional mitigation measures and would likely need to secure additional funding over and above that which is contractually committed at July 29, 2021. "

"In the event that such a scenario were to occur, the Group would need to implement additional mitigation measures and would likely need to secure additional funding over and above that which is contractually committed at July 29, 2021. "

"In the event that such a scenario were to occur, the Group would need to implement additional mitigation measures and would likely need to secure additional funding over and above that which is contractually committed at July 29, 2021. "

"In the event that such a scenario were to occur, the Group would need to implement additional mitigation measures and would likely need to secure additional funding over and above that which is contractually committed at July 29, 2021. "

"In the event that such a scenario were to occur, the Group would need to implement additional mitigation measures and would likely need to secure additional funding over and above that which is contractually committed at July 29, 2021. "

"In the event that such a scenario were to occur, the Group would need to implement additional mitigation measures and would likely need to secure additional funding over and above that which is contractually committed at July 29, 2021. "

"In the event that such a scenario were to occur, the Group would need to implement additional mitigation measures and would likely need to secure additional funding over and above that which is contractually committed at July 29, 2021. "

"In the event that such a scenario were to occur, the Group would need to implement additional mitigation measures and would likely need to secure additional funding over and above that which is contractually committed at July 29, 2021. "

"In the event that such a scenario were to occur, the Group would need to implement additional mitigation measures and would likely need to secure additional funding over and above that which is contractually committed at July 29, 2021. "

There's a fookin statement in the RNS as clear as the sky, if IAG's travel markets, a significant part of which is BA's transatlantic, they will have to raise more money. It says so. How can you all pretend this is not a fact. The airline is not going to spend up cash and THEN go to the market. It is going to top up cash reserves, so if it is at 10 now and drops to 7 by Nov they will call for 3 bn to put it back to 10 bn. It is like when Branson had to sell off his music shops to top up cash for Virgin. He didn't need to hold the cash but had to be seen to have a big pile of it to keep creditors happy that the airline was indeed solvent.

sunsurfer, that is quite a spin on numbers. Let me glance at the market reaction and professional comments on the results....

..... as I suspected. You are somewhat out of kilter and reading the numbers upside down. Each and every comment I have read so far in response to today's RNS is one of a warning. IAG is under significant pressure and there is no gloss to put on it. If those Q3 numbers do not go 40% and the US does not open up in September, IAG is in trouble and even the RNS stated clearly, they will have to raise further funds. It is there in web ink. Emotional attachment will lose you all money.

Istabrrq, as long as the closed loop between mass media and cult advocates continues, a lot of things are possible. Nothing related to climate change is challenged, none of the false statistical analysis, very distorted physics, computer models that have failed in every prediction to date, money mad cures, crazy teraforming schemes. Nothing is challenged no matter how bizarre of the face the statement is. I watched newsnight last night in disbelief that people were allowed to demand that co2 should be taken out of the atmosphere to repair the climate. Not one single cross question or challenge to the multiple lines of stupidity in such a statement was made. In the name of climate change, yes, were are all going to be taxed to hell and back. For a start, the lost revenue from fuel taxes will have to be recovered. There will be travel quotas, you will limited to something like one air journey of x duration every year so that to do a long haul to NY might require the use of 3 years worth, Aus, 7 years worth and so on. The limiting of freedom to travel was again in the mix. The environmental lobby has been very quite through the pandemic. There has been an increase in hysteria reporting of late, it rained in Germany and the alteration to the topography of the land due to forestry and floodplain management and the planning using averages rather than real world events led to a deluge that had no where to go. Managing storm bursts and saying something must be done is an argument I have heard all through my life and they used to be a lot worse. But now there is 'climate change' hook to put every single weather event on. Expect some very draconian restrictions to be imposed in November. I certainly won;t be holding any travel stokes that late in the year. I thin the latest it will be safe to hold travel stocks will be mid to end September. After that, the attack on airlines will be massive and it will result in a real world action such as runway protests, drone attacks, physical damage to aircraft, as the media storm whips up a fury of hate. It's all coming down the road. It is mass hysteria and it is ramping up right now with no sign of control or challange.

low carb diet dubious, and if you look up the carbs for a piece of KFC (not the burgers or chips) the values are very good. I think it is around 9g per portion. Of course, a serving of 5 portions defeats the objective, but I can have one or maybe two pieces and with everything else be well under my 100g daily carb target.

Well JohnB it is somewhat lower than 5% down so maybe the end of your world is approaching. I worry for you. You only want to read a very narrow mindset of opinions that do not distort a false narrative you are pitching your hard earned cash at. I post here because my main focus is the sp with IAG which I have been in and out on numerous occasions. Easy J is a reference point for the EU travel market and sp gains form that. It could have been any one of a number of other travel stocks. My target for the next money maker is again with IAG. While I am focused on that I will post my opinions on that.

Stop fretting about real world truths being placed in front of you. Filter me and be damned! Then filter the next ones that point out problems. Then the next ones. Then the ones after that. Keep filtering until there is only one post left you are happy reading - your own!

I've already had a text telling me I will get a flu and covid booster jab at the same time in the autumn.

Fuagile, a cuddle form you with all those needles and goo all over your body? Err no thanks. If anything, it plays into my plan that the sp drops so if the switcheroo happens the IAG increase on announcement of transatlantic travel resuming UK to US could be a nice little earner. But, However, the damn Easy J price is being dragged down with the sector and is not decoupling properly. Although as the RNS is studied further IAG is on big dip today bigger than Easy J so ther eis some differential , but not much. You see, Easy J does not have a big news story in the near future to create a spike. IAG does! SO it is all down to the timing and waiting for the RNS is a gamble that seems to have worked for a lower IAG, but very annoyingly EAsy and SSP have been dragged down too. It is to do with the computers and this looks more and more like a distortion in the market and I do wonder if the computers are linking stocks to tightly and therefore in breach of exchange rules. It will be interesting to see what the disparity will be when the US market opens.

"Travel is restarting and the vaccination roll out is gathering pace, two facts that might be of more use to you."

'However if' you take off the rose tinted glasses and put on the reading glasses, there are plain spoken phrases in the text which are red light warnings. This RNS is basically a warning. IAG [BA in particular] will not be able to take a continuing hit into Q4.