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I hope that is the general rule Portland, although for many it isn't so much the money but the faf. I am looking at a lot of options for current amber expected to be green by the time I travel but will still have all the testing and stuff on the return leg. The £160 is still multiple times the cost of a lot of short haul and that is for just one person. Even if the bank balance [and wife] allows then it is still a psychological block. I'm sure the media stories will be directed to confusion,mayhem and cost in order to nudge theory deter people as that does appear to be the policy to me.

Maybe you could write a piece for the travel supplements! "Plucky Brit defies Downing Street de-facto travel ban and survives return passage through Heathrow."

It is quite clear now that proper opening up of travel has been deliberately frustrated with complicated and expensive testing and quarantine, green lists that are so restricted one has to ask what was the point and an attitude of prevarication to countries even when the countries themselves are fully open to British visitors.

We do have firm announcements that the holiday islands are as good on the next green lists, but they should have been there from the start. Also, the management of the spin around the extension of the green list means that new [and actually accessible] destinations are delayed as late as possible.

And I expect the long draw out for travel to be returned to normal is going to be further frustrated by design. Nudge theory again. You have France and Germany banning UK visitors whilst Greece, Spain and Portugal welcome with open arms.

Each one of these frustrations dampens the sp future spikes more and more to the point where now it is more of a drifting sp. The spikes I was hoping to find a month or two ago are being depleted more and more as the level of deliberate withholding of free travel continues.

Is the paint dry yet?

Is the paint dry yet?

Isabrraq, I've been anticipating this - key now is how widely reported this can get. No hint of the story being raised on R4 this morning. I did expect something to be leaked as a firm date, this 'intention' if it can be vocalised in an interview might suffice. My master plan to rule the universe from the wicker chair is back on track.

"Taxiing to runway!

Full throttle

Rotate!!!!

Gla"

Yeah, this is the last think I want to hear from the flight deck as we take-off, "Good luck all".

GULP!!!

To be fair, I think there was substantial taxi way renovation redirecting traffic and on another occasion other major terminal building works. I remember the pilots saying the tower had asked them to go back to the queue as they had missed the apron turn off. Big sighs all around and comments, 'not again', 'they keep doing this'.

Rockets 'lift off', planes 'take off'.

However, some pilots do find it taxing taxiing to the runway based on my experience, especially in the US at the major hubs. Been on a few flights where the pilots have got lost going round and round the airport trying to find their gates, lol!!

Am I now seeing the decoupling of the share, except I've put the saddle on the wrong horses back??? lol. IAG is up 2.2% with Easy J down 1%. I really shouldn't be chuckling at this but it's hard not too. The new fridge might end up a second hand purchase at this rate, ha!

is that right, 496k of shares dumped on Easy J, £5mil dump. Was that a squat or sit? lol. Why is this relevant to IAG? Because there has been a similar event in IAG sp too.
Tells me that a ii has done a major switcheroo.... But I can't see anything on the wire expect a lot of fluff from self-important nobodies whinging because they didn't get an exclusive briefing about a government advisory released on a public email alert board. I think the ii is very wrong though!

Knock that on the head, who took the dump on the market?

Although it is only 9:30, the sps do seem to be being walked up the hill slowly. Typical when a consensus on an expected event grows. IAG now above 200, Easy J to above 1000 imminently too. If this continuos and my guess on the news sequence is correct then I won't benefit that much flipping between Easy and IAG, but it might be worth an extra few percent. These two shares just will not uncouple.

IAG a nose ahead in the Easy J IAG race this am. I am still betting EU news first, US news second and that Easy J will spike first.

My analysis of statements coming out of Downing St indicate that the 'firm' and continuos statements are not so much an affirmation of current policy, more the kind of 'keep it in the news opinion' statements that one or other lobby group does in order to mollify the other lobby from being able to promote the alternative view. This is a fluid policy however and although the free travel lobby isn't in control of the news release narrative at the moment, the actual narrative comes across as a bit weak and incomplete - almost to the extent that the position is allowed in order to placate the lockdown lobby for the moment, so you know where they are and what they are saying. Consider the reaction to the news that Spain is allowing UK visitors without screening. The government response is a mere restating of the amber guidelines and the term 'be patient a little while longer' being used a lot. There is no move to restrict actual travel to Spain in response. So I get the strong indication there is treading of water, buying time, for a few days.

As I said before, the most likely scenario is a firm date being leaked about when the islands at least will be placed on a green list, or even a new category being created for local isolated areas like the Canaries. The open up lobby will win because that is where the votes are!

Another EU country setting it's own independent schedule. Commission will be absolutely furious. If they can't even bully Ireland to follow the commission diktat, then the commission really has lost control. They will react with a very heavy hand as the usually do.

You get to wear the smug old git cap today then TP. With pride man, strut around with it full pea****!

yes viren1, a full blow exchange of live weapons lol.

Currently all out of IAG, all in Easy J in case there is a U turn on the UK green list before end off week. Then it will be a very rapid all in to IAG ahead of US going on UK green list when US opens borders. IAG will rise if Spain or the islands are moved to green but I am betting the big rise for Easy J will be EU green list changes more than IAG and IAG big news will be US and will come after EU. Does any of that make sense?

"when BB starts an interesting discussion ..."

You might have a long wait ... lol :)

235.3 peak during the week, but for the actual close on Friday, a profit take pull back to 209.2.

I think the pressure to announce the holiday islands in the Med, Aegean and Atlantic will be on the green list will be too intense. However, caveat! I expect the DATE that they will be added to the green list to be 'leaked' during a mid-week interview which will be headlined as a firm irreversible date and that date to be post 9th June but will allow bookings to go ahead. So people will be able to book now expecting by 21st June the islands will be on the green list [which is what a lot of people are doing anyway] and the government essentially confirming that is the case. There will be strong cautions though that the data might change things but it will all fall on deaf ears.

If you're going to loose, do it in style. This will be referred to so many times over the coming years, the singer will be dining out free for the rest of his life. At least a 6 bedroom grade 2 with pools and stables from advertising, a dream gift getting zero points. From the jaws of defeat lad, see the opportunity and grab it with both hands.

[I should say I didn't watch it and have no idea what any of the songs sound like let alone the UK song.]

Right, who was mucking around with the on/off switch?