Open to debate sub 100p and you may be correct with your guess but this share was around 160p just 30 days ago moving in between 180p to 160p
If there was no omicron strain could we have expected 125p and 4 weeks later where the omicron strain will be ?
When this share hit 92p last year without any high speed proper testing solution and vaccination many investors had the opinion that IAG will go bust ,
3rd quarter of this year most of the airlines were already started to make profit and omicron’s impact was a mystery a week ago but not anymore . Gla
1.40p sp around 6.9% + ..... all possible with IAG
-South Africa is "over the curve," says chair of national medical association
-Moderna booster shot increases antibody levels against Omicron, company says
some good news circulating in US media , AA currently up 1.50 %
Luckily topped up from 125.05p and 126.78p , waiting the news from COBRA meeting ,(sounds like operation name from Rambo£ but probably they are having some pizza and wine discussing where to spend holiday coming days
In a different perspective government shouldn’t announce increased death rate because of Omicron as this will cause panic , anyone gets omicron will rush to the hospitals overload healthcare system
On the other other hand need to threaten with lockdowns ,publish how rapidly can spread on every media outlet and with announcements(My favourite :COBRA meetings everyday ) to let people to get vaccination boosters and let them wear mask, keep distance etc
You can see that there are no headlines such xxxx number of people are death because of omicron , so deadly etc . Media is using generally ‘mild symptoms but ultra infectious’ to keep balance between relax and panic .
Assuming that we will hear headlines soon such as ‘Highest daily infection 180k’ after Xmas to prevent mass gatherings on new year but that should be all and last
That’s why not expecting a dramatic increase on daily
death numbers because of omicron which means for me to hold on to the stock during these couple weeks and buy more if possible .
JUST one in 1,000 Brits have been admitted to hospital with the Omicron Covid variant so far, latest figures show.
A total of 85 people in England had been taken to hospital with the strain as of December 17 - a rise of 20 people on the day before.
No signs of daily deaths rising
Another 82.886 coronavirus cases also have been reported - down on recent days
Nearly 1 MILLION jabs delivered in England in a DAY , including more than 830,000 boosters.
Some investors were saying on last Thursday that sp will go down on Friday down due to negative news from USA and share prices did almost 4% up on Friday
Let’s see what new week and Year will bring to us
According to media outlets warned there are "no guarantees" when asked about a festive clampdown -
Phychological pressure for people to stop booking trains,flight or further planing that all might be cancelled if further restrictions comes
I bet no more restrictions for Xmas
I would prefer to go to southern Asia , Philippines, Thailand or Vietnam over Germany and France right now … best season beautiful weather and cheap
Also will be good to leave Europe for 15 days till this madness calm down … Netherland lockdown will be till 15th Jan because economies can not afford more losses and no need further restrictions beyond that
All concern is festive period Xmas and new year to boom spread and overload healthcare system … afterwards should be real clear
In December one of the reason we couldn’t have full launch was supply chain issues and they postponed to feb . Lockdowns,social distancing restrictions or working from home might create some challenges for a temporary time period . Any lockdown shouldn’t be more the 30 days ( mid January such as Netherlands hard lockdown till 14th jan ) since economy is not in a condition to compensate more loss and omicron seems less severe
I am not expecting any lockdowns on Feb , there might be a possibility that If they were targeting early feb launch might be postponed to late feb or march , hoping that they can launch early feb
Is there any possibility that they might delay launch a month more due to lockdowns , supply chain issues and for better marketing atmosphere… because omicron is making life kinda hard these days and probably a month more . Any ideas ? Thanks
Another point is already all airlines are under heavy pressure around the world especially in Europe , low budget , smaller scale ones with main destination points to Europe will feel the pressure more .
IAG might even benefit from this temporary crisis because of it is scale , national flag carrier , cargo volume and access to finance