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You moan and whine about the any which direction the share goes. Will you all just zip it.
The price will do what it wants, you're all along for the ride. You hold the ticket, or are standing at the bus stop waiting to get on. It is up to you.
Half of you that are in are always commenting about the point at which you can not wait jump out, advertising to everyone there will be future sales., some moaning about "manipulation"
Some on the fense either way.
Will you just cool it for goodness sake.
all you are doing from the outside observer perspective is holding up a big sign saying "Dont come here it is miserable"
If you want to be out, then just get out, if you want to stay, then great, just sit and wait and be quiet. And just have faith in your decision. With constructive discussions.
If you're not sure anymore, ask yourself this, are you still willing to increase your holding? If no, then ask... WHY are you still holding at all.
I think a massive issue here is, there are too many wishy washy people thay just throw up bad vibes regardless of the day. You are creating the very lack of confidence you are moaning about.
Just cool it.
You either have faith or you don't. Just stop all the emotional, knee jerk reactions, if you can not cut it when dips/ rises happen, you really need to question, should you be here at all. Emotional tug of wars have no place in investing at all
Just let it do it's thing, for better or for worse.
Can you learn to reply to your own threads, and stop spamming new threads. This is not messenger.
Because the buy back represents a fraction of a single percent of all the shares in circulation.
This current buyback is hardly going to make the price wiggle at all.
A few million shares being bought, out of a pool of several billion of shares in total. This would need to a far larger buyback to make any significant difference.
Just be happy in the knowledge that they are willing to buy back as it shows support and confidence from iag management.
Just give it time, the markets are spooked right now with the UK raise rates. With fears of recession, Things will settle eventually. It will take time.
In the mean time just sit back and let it be. You beating yourself up over it, isn't going to help one bit.
Passengers should be weighed,
If I recall, there was an incident a few years back, where the fuel calculated for the flight, the weight of the plane and luggage, but it didn't take into account of the weight of the passengers, only using the average weight that had been set years before. Not taking into account of years of ever heavier pasengers.
If I remember correctly, the investigation after pulled the medical records of the passengers and recalculated the fuel required. It turned out there simply was not enough fuel onboard.
More weight, more fuel is required. It is as simple as that.
Or airlines resort to tanking, storing excess amounts of fuel on board far beyond what they need. Ironically, that fuel it self of course has an added weight, so therfore burns more anyway, which ultimately gets passed onto the passengers.
Mararab
As i have already stated, most for BA seats are pitched to 31 inch. with the exception of Short haul routes, Such as the a319/20s. which is more or less normal for airlines.
As for leg room is leg room Comment, as i was explaining, PITCH is not an indicator of how much room you have, as i have stated, the seat design is a factor.
The OPs shared article fails to separate the routes, which only leads the reader to think that ALL aircraft have had such changes with is not at all the case. the article also is implying that the only factor to think about is pitch, which is not the case. as i have already explained, design is also a factor.
Furthermore,
Given that Short haul is not really the money maker for BA, Long haul is, Such as their A350, 777, 787 routes, I'm not at all worried, as most customers on short flights are demanding cheaper fares "cheap get away deals" which are only obtainable by sharing the fixed costs of each flight over as many people as possible.
more bums on seats, cheaper tickets. if you have fewer seats and in turn fewer passengers, then there will be higher fares for everyone. It is a pretty simple business model.
The vast majority of people are willing to endure a little bit of discomfort for a 2 or so hours, if it means they then have more spending money during the holiday/ cheaper holidays overall.
Most seats on BA are set at about 31 inch pitch then typically reducing in areas where the aircraft starts to narrow towards the back of the cabin, as these seats are fitted on a slight angle following the shape of the aircraft.
That said, the pitch is merely the spacing between the seat feet, and does not necessarily represent the actual room each passenger has, as a seat with a larger pitch, but a bulkier seat and cushion design could still end up with less room as the cushions will push the passenger closer to the seat in front.
So pitch is only one factor when descussing how much room there a actually is. So just be mindful of that.
Sun, totally agree.
When it dropped. I honestly couldn't believe it. I just had to grab more.
Especially given that q2 of this year had already set the president that things were on the up. Q3 was better than expected, very good results
Q4, I'm not typically one that likes to give predictions.
Although I am expecting it to be positive, I would not be too surprised to see it lower than q3, reason being, winter for airlines typically see a drop in demand.
That being said, BAs passenger levels this winter have been much stronger than expexted so far.
In short,
I expect decent results for Q4, but wouldn't be concerned at all if those results are lower than Q3. (That is just the nature of airlines, peaks and troughs)
And as always, DYOR
Airlines almost always have some sort of debt/obligation and always will.
It is the nature of airline, they buy aircraft on finance, billions worth, paying them off over the term of their service life.
Admittedly, that was one of the advantages to BA's 747 fleet. They were all paid for. So virtually everything, with the exception of running costs was profit. Granted they are gone now. Which in the long run is the better decision given the 747 fuel consumption is significantly higher, which would be slapping us right now with the current high prices.
So this fixation on long term debt for airlines is pointless. It means virtually nothing.
Focus on the short term debt/,debt that needs to be addressed now or very soon.
Apologies, a350s not a320s.
Typo
Don't be too disheartened by Q1.
Airlines first quater almost always suck. It's the business model, a lot of airlines will run a loss or break even during the winter months, which tends to be off set by the summers. That happens regardless of covid restrictions or not. Especially for international airlines.
Q1 for me landed more or less how i expected it would. Q2 and Q3 will be the real test, more so 3, for me atleast.
Though I have faith, given that airports are overflowing, airlines are desperate to bring staff in to meet demand. BA improving their staff incentives, combined with them heavily upgrading their fleets like crazy, soon to start upgrades on the 787s too. Simular to those carried out on the a320s and 777s.
Personally I think the future is looking far brighter than the uncertainty of even only 6 months to a year ago.
Though of course. Time will tell.
A short while ago, I mentioned that flights were looking pretty full. Despite being 2 months about from their departure dates. I made a comment regarding my suspicion that additional flights will be added to the US route to meet the demand.
Well, I have some uplifting news.
The number of daily flights on the route I looked at, have now indeed doubled since I made those comments. While simultaneously the demand for those flights still remains strong.. with many of the aircraft nearing max booking capacity.
BA bookings are absolutely up right now. Flights in December, I can only assume in anticipation of us opening. Are looking pretty full. Even more amazing, we are two months out and those flights are already pretty packed. I suspect, ba will have to allocate more flights to the US route at this rate.
Furthermore, i would also like to point out, for that 20 pound that i paid, my baggage and choice of seat was included in the price, i sat next to the over wing emergency exist to take advantage of the increased legroom. Ryanair on the other hand charge extra for those perks.
on the subjects of BA flight pricing, i have personally flown on a BA flight from London, to Majorca a year or so ago. costing £20. even i was shocked at the pricing, i have screen shots on it.
It cost me more to commute to London via National Express, than it did for me to fly from the UK to Spain.
Prices can certainly be adjusted and now after the businesses heavy restructuring, they may have a bit more wriggle room to do so again. Granted, they do indeed now have obligations that will require paying back. However, IAG/ BA also have quite a bit of time to do so.
The telegraph
"Face coverings will still be compulsory on aircraft after July 19, UK airlines have warned, despite the fact that there will be no legal requirement to enforce them"
Posted 25 min ago online with the drop
I can only assume it was the announcement by airlines saying they will still enforce face masks even after the government said they will be no longer enforced from the 19th. This is only thing I could find that meets the time stamp
"Spain is today opening to fully vaccinated travellers from around the world in an attempt to kick start its summer tourism season."
Haha true. I like to think of it this way, the more miserable the weather is here. The more people will want to go on holiday. :)
Will not be seeing any eletric commercial airliners for a very long time,
Large commercial Aircraft are designed to take off with more weight than what they can land with. The burning of fuel lightens the load before landing. Or in an emergency, fuel to jettisoned overboard to bring the aircrafts weight down to safely land.
Batteries weigh the same regardless of if they are fully charged or depleted. So the weight remains the same. Landing like that would damage the aircraft fuselage and gear.
So for this to be viable for electric aircraft, the aircraft will have to have limited range to keep the weght of batteries down, and/or the number of passengers and cargo would have to be reduced, which will intern drastically increase the cost of flying. More bums on seats means more people the spread the cost over, less bums on seats increaes the costs