SlowDownDerek
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Unless you know people having to bring these passengers home.
Are these passengers any more of a risk than any other passenger?
Unless you know people having to bring these passengers home.
What do you mean?Are these passengers any more of a risk than any other passenger?
24. mar. 2020 - During this time, vital cargo and emergency evacuation flights will operate, however all other flights will come to a temporary halt and our two airports – Dubai International (DXB) and Dubai World Central (DWC) – will be closed to the travelling public until further notice.You said Cargo and repatriation flights are all thats flying about....look at tomorrows scheduled arrivals board. I can still book a Turkish airlines flight from Dubai to Heathrow next monday. These airlines will operate for as long as possible if its commercially viable.
What do you mean?
No, I meant people like Flight Attendants etc.I assumed you were talking about taxi drivers picking people up?
No, I meant people like Flight Attendants etc.
The arrivals board is slightly misleading as code share flights are shown as separate flights. ie there’s only 1 arrival from Sydney at 5:05 rather than 2.Well there are 'emergency flights' on sale right now on skyscanner... ..hardly an evacuation when opened to the highest bidder...
https://www.skyscanner.net/transpor...abled=false&inboundaltsenabled=false&ref=home
Singapore airlines still flying into Heathrow from Singapore from £886 a pot
I guess this is Heathrow operating at 10%...still a hell of a lot of arrivals
https://www.heathrow.com/arrivals
Surely that must spell the end of the PL season .............Wimbledon cancelled. Not postponed
The arrivals board is slightly misleading as code share flights are shown as separate flights. ie there’s only 1 arrival from Sydney at 5:05 rather than 2.
But yeah it’s still a lot of flights and these will be large long haul jets with potentially hundreds of passengers each
@SlowDownDerek posted this comment in the Brexit thread, and it really got me to thinking ..........
"The push back against restrictions on liberty and damage to the economy have come from across the political spectrum from what I can see".
To the extent that most people are trying to comply with the restrictions, I am starting to get a sense that the politicos everywhere are falling into a herd mentality. Each one from Mr. Trump to our local mayor seems to want to be seen as the "man who saves thousands of lives". Now, saving lives is certainly a high priority, notwithstanding that today's children and their children will be paying in huge tax increases as the same governments stretch to reduce the deficits that they are creating. Meanwhile, individuals face short-term economic pain, mental distress, and all the inconveniences that we are seeing. I saw one projection that suicides and increases in drug use may result. OK, fair enough, this is something like we have never seen. But ...............
If saving lives were their #1 priority, would they ban all smoking? Would save thousands of lives. How about a ban on all sugar? Would reduce obesity and heart attacks and diabetes. Homelessness. Drug abuse ........ the list goes on and on. So if these liberties were taken away, would citizens let it happen?
I'm not sure what point I am exactly trying to make ...... but for whatever reason I get the sense that I am somehow getting played??
Second, a small anecdote ....... The wife decided that we should move up to the cottage for a bit. Social distancing in a way, we go from overcrowded Toronto to a smallish town of about 40,000 people, open spaces, etc. So we took the cats up there a few days ago, and settled in. When we went up, it was about F40 degrees and raining. The highway was as uncrowded as I have ever seen .... really remarkable. I came back to Toronto today to do some work around the house that is best done without the cats underfoot. F50 degrees and sunny. There were at least triple the number of cars on the road. This suggests to me that as the weather gets nicer, the government has to relax at least some of the restrictions, because people are going to give them the
Finally, per the "pay cut" thread, I am already of a mind that restrictions on small shops have to go. For example, I buy my Keurig coffee from a guy who has a shop that is less than 1000 sf. Father owns it, son and daughter run it - Russian folks. I go there every week, and have never seen more than 2 customers in there at a time. Why the f*** should he be closed down. He is exactly the type of person who needs to keep it going to make ends meet. There are many such examples on the "pay cut" thread. Governments have taken a sledge hammer to this, which may have been necessary at the outset. But they have to now get surgical on closures.
Anyway, I think I'm ranting .............
This just made me think:@SlowDownDerek posted this comment in the Brexit thread, and it really got me to thinking ..........
"The push back against restrictions on liberty and damage to the economy have come from across the political spectrum from what I can see".
To the extent that most people are trying to comply with the restrictions, I am starting to get a sense that the politicos everywhere are falling into a herd mentality. Each one from Mr. Trump to our local mayor seems to want to be seen as the "man who saves thousands of lives". Now, saving lives is certainly a high priority, notwithstanding that today's children and their children will be paying in huge tax increases as the same governments stretch to reduce the deficits that they are creating. Meanwhile, individuals face short-term economic pain, mental distress, and all the inconveniences that we are seeing. I saw one projection that suicides and increases in drug use may result. OK, fair enough, this is something like we have never seen. But ...............
If saving lives were their #1 priority, would they ban all smoking? Would save thousands of lives. How about a ban on all sugar? Would reduce obesity and heart attacks and diabetes. Homelessness. Drug abuse ........ the list goes on and on. So if these liberties were taken away, would citizens let it happen?
I'm not sure what point I am exactly trying to make ...... but for whatever reason I get the sense that I am somehow getting played??
Second, a small anecdote ....... The wife decided that we should move up to the cottage for a bit. Social distancing in a way, we go from overcrowded Toronto to a smallish town of about 40,000 people, open spaces, etc. So we took the cats up there a few days ago, and settled in. When we went up, it was about F40 degrees and raining. The highway was as uncrowded as I have ever seen .... really remarkable. I came back to Toronto today to do some work around the house that is best done without the cats underfoot. F50 degrees and sunny. There were at least triple the number of cars on the road. This suggests to me that as the weather gets nicer, the government has to relax at least some of the restrictions, because people are going to give them the
Finally, per the "pay cut" thread, I am already of a mind that restrictions on small shops have to go. For example, I buy my Keurig coffee from a guy who has a shop that is less than 1000 sf. Father owns it, son and daughter run it - Russian folks. I go there every week, and have never seen more than 2 customers in there at a time. Why the f*** should he be closed down. He is exactly the type of person who needs to keep it going to make ends meet. There are many such examples on the "pay cut" thread. Governments have taken a sledge hammer to this, which may have been necessary at the outset. But they have to now get surgical on closures.
Anyway, I think I'm ranting .............
Surely that must spell the end of the PL season .............
Did I read correctly that there is another PL conference call this week?
This Government is doing a lot of talking in a bid to convince that they are in control of the situation....but its frighteningly obvious that they lack coordination with the services/suppliers of equipment needed at the front line.
Christ knows what is going on behind the doors of Numbers 10 and 11.
Its getting scary now.....and seeing how the Pillock over the Pond is talking....about New York...me and the missus were almost dumbstruck and shaking with tearful rage listening to the cnut...its all too obvious that he is, like our lot, concerned only for the Economy - how it will affect THEM and Voting at any future Elections.
We've had good lives but hope to carry on a bit longer......but I fear now for our descendants ...with these people ' leading' the battle!..
But....we have faith in the.Scientists and Medics so hopefully they will win through with their efforts despite the lack of good leadership from those who should be giving it.
I think I'm right in saying that in WW2 that things improved with the organisation as it progressed to the latter stages.
The front pages have really had a go at the government this morning.