Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.
TT duh. I was sharing the experience not for YOUR travel reading benefit but as a contributor to the share discussion. Platforms such as this have no impact on share value.
Puzzled by your response.
Just returned from a TUI holiday to Madeira from Manchester
Outbound we arrived early and wa not allowed through although queues were small. Delayed one hour due to inbound aircraft delay.
Return leg was a different matter. I was tracking the aircraft and it was late back from Turkey overnight. Taxi to airport was a planned even though delay was approx 3 hours. In March 2020 they delayed the taxi. Aircraft was further delayed from Manchester due to baggage removal on Turkey flight (Flight Crew advised).
Passengers prior to boarding were first asked if they would go via Birmingham flight then said one flight crew were over their hours and 19 pax had to be offloaded. Volunteers asked for (none) then they started shouting out names. Stabge but those people got on the aircraft!!
We had to wait over 2 hours for our baggage at Manchester. All other airlines baggage were being offloaded as normal. It was just the 3 off TUI flights that weren't. Airport staff tannoyed to say they could not get an answer from Swissport on the status.
When tracking flights and seeing departures boards TUI Europe appeared to be okay.
Are TUI looking after costs with their suppliers
Flight our had 10 empty seats and return full
Buster, Your comments suggests you have information which is not in the public domain, although working for a company does not necessarily mean you have 'inside' information on the companies strategy. I work for a global company as a Project Manager but there will be many aspects of the company which I am not privy to. If you are basing your judgement on current progress I can understand that statement but I was asking what the future strategy may be once the the current review is completed.
Buster.have you got a basis for that statement. A competent company with the funds and strategy can and do deliver faster projects. In this instance there are other drivers which are directing progress. Some are the need to review the Projects Basis of Design, programme and estimate. We will see how the companies strategy changes once concluded or will it continue at a 'slow' pace.
Ask 10 Engineers for a design and you get 10 designs. Ask 10 lawyers for a strategy and you get 10 strategies. If you ask 10 investors what to do and why you get 10 answers. Only the FDA know where they are in the process and what actions, if any, still need to be taken. There will be many speculators out there who will look to influence and guess whats happening. So many variable inputs and outputs it's impossible to know for a fact. Those who will are lucky and those who lose are lucky although experience help to a certain extent. The facts are in the statistics in the RNS's that this device is very good but not 100%. And therein lies the issue. Will it be sufficiently risk free to avoid lawsuits and be approved or will it have adequate accuracy to be useful in the medical industry. I personally think it will succeed but will it be taken over before FDA approval? Who knows? Not as risky as the lottery but no guarantees.
Many people will always find money for their holidays and claim they cannot pay for food or heating. There are of course sensible people but it will be interesting and no one knows but fingers crossed. Mines booked for May.
I've been trying to learn about FDA and the de-novo process to enlighten me on the process with a view of understanding the challenges, we, Angle, face.
From the link https://www.fda.gov/training-and-continuing-education/cdrh-learn/de-novo-program-transcript
The following is interesting 'You should address each risk to health with at least one mitigation. Now being low risk helps support the eligibility for de novo, but that isn't enough to be granted a de novo. It is very likely that a low risk device will be more likely to be considered de novo, but you still have to be able to characterize the risk to health and provide reproducible controls to manage those risks.'
Risk to health and provision of mitigation. What is an acceptable risk to the FDA?
Government have an impossible job to decide since they will be blamed for anything negative irrespective of the fault. We have two camps of thought as see in the comments below. 1) lockdown and save everyone or 2)Let nature takes its course. This will apply to travel and TUI. I'm in camp 2 although because of my job and being stuck in Tenerife in March 2020 are reluctant to 'take a risk'. To continue the Covid discussion I have first hand experience. My father who was 92 died in May 2020 allegedly from Covid. HOWEVER day before he died Consultant said he could see from his 2017 X-rays his lungs were deteriorating. My father went into hospital because of his warfarin levels. Tested positive on arrival then 2 negative tests. Not surprisingly day after his death the person who called me said death cert was available and it was due to Covid. I said how considering his history and would challenge it. They said death cert could not be issued and look on my sisters face meat I could not go ahead. I complained to my MP who is in a nest locality to where my father died. I received two responses. Government advising their policy of '28 days' and the second from the hospital in area of my MP. This advises how they look after patients and had investigated my fathers death. At that point I forgot I omitted to tell my MP where my father died. I call the hospital and asked them how they investigated the death at another hospital. Their response, do I want to submit a complaint!! I agree with Avocet123 we need to get back to normal and accept that elderly die and we cannot wrap them up in cotton wool forever. As they mentioned Spanish flu died out after 500 odd days but with Covid humans are interfering with nature resulting in variants and probably prolonging the damage. Unfortunately we have the two camps similar to Brexit and its impossible to rationalise but hopefully the experts and politicians get it wrong and in Q1 we see a return to normality when I expect demand will soar.
An interesting read here https://www.huntsman.com/products/detail/344/miralon
Halifax not letting buy or sell. Have to phone.
@Fairdealer20 - point of clarity which many mistake - Its Teesside with 2 s. The locals get upset at mis-spelling.
CF have been importing Ammonia to keep its Nitric Acid Production ongoing due to downstream customer requirements. I've not driven past the site for a while where the Prill Tower is located but quite often there are stock piles of fertiliser. It would be interesting if stocks were high contributing to the plant shutdown. Government may take more interest now knowing the significance although I doubt it.
Ted, agree excellent results but please read up on your geography. The Tunnels and Shafts are in the north East. Or the North East part of North Yorkshire to be precise for the Shaft and the tunnel has its end at Wilton in Teesside, home of the River Tees Freeport. I would hate to be associated with the East of England, thanks.