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be cancelled flights due to unsold seats, rather than sitting in a metal tube breathing in everyone's air?
I'm due to go to Cyprus in late May for my son to attend a football camp run by tongue-wielding cripple Jack 'Jackie' Wilshere. He's going to have a massive f*cking paddy if I have to tell him we can't go :-(
My son, not Jack.
To be honest, once the thing is properly loose, there's going to be no point not flying or travelling abroad because it's likely to be everywhere anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Late May should be fine, though. We're likely to be past the worst by then.
Really? I thought we were now likely to enter the 'delay' phase after failing to contain the thing, which would involve attempting to push back the virus's peak into the summer months when the NHS will be better able to cope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Sure, but that shouldn't affect foreign travel. The CMO said the other day that there was no point restricting overseas travel plans unless you're travelling to a hotspot since there's no more danger most places than there is here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Well you said we're likely to be past the worst by late May, but now seem to agree that the peak may not come until June/July/August :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Also, surely a key consideration regarding travel will continue to be where you'd rather be if/when you catch it. There may be no more risk of catching it in Cyprus than the UK by that point, but I know where I'd rather be treated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
There are suggestions that better weather will be a major factor in driving down cases. One would expect May to see the higher temperatures that usually help restrict the spread of other viral respiratory illnesses. It's not unreasonable (although not certain) to think that this will also be the case in this instance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Sure, but another way of looking at it is that, given the likely temperatures in Cyprus in May, you may also be better there than here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Also, you're a healthy man in your late 30s, you're comfortably in the lowest risk percentile even if you do get it. If you were old or a severe asthmatic or a pregnant woman, you might have something to worry about.
Pull yourself together.
I'm only worried about having to tell my son he can't go to this football camp, and was trying to determine the likelihood of this. As I said in my original post, my sense is that the biggest risk is that our flight is cancelled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I'm not concerned about getting it myself, although I would suggest you're being a little blasé about the risk of healthy, strapping young men like me inadvertently passing it onto elderly relatives.
Airlines going mechuleh might well be another issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Sadly, Easyjet and Ryanair are likely to survive. :-(
If we lost 10% of our over 80s would that really be, (on a purely pragmatic level) such a bad thing? Consider the boost to the welfare budget, for a start. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
The old will just have to take their chances, I'm afraid. The risk of imminent death is part of the deal of getting old and they must accept that nature wants their arse. Same goes for the weak and infirm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
I think we are flying BA.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Also, can you imagine all moaning out of the second referendum lot if loads of oldsters died after Brexit's already happened? :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
You might want to keep an eye on IAG's share price then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
:hehe: I knew you would get Brexit in there somewhereQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I'm actually flying Lufthansa tomorrow - they are complete pussies, cancelling flights left right and centreQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Why pussies? They'll be cancelling flights to avoid flying with half empty planes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
what about the half that are booked on and still want to travel?Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Indeed this is correct,Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
http://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium...ive-equipment/Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
So they'll not supply other EU countries? isn't this against EU regulations?
How about if they calculated the cost of the flight and split that amount evenly amongst the ones who wished to travel? That would be fair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
It's a commercial decision, is the point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
They have banned the 'export' of the stuff, i. A movement or sale within the EU is not an 'export'.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Would have thought so. For some reason that has reminded me to do my tax return though **FREEMONEYTHATWASMINEINTHEFIRSTPLACE**Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
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Originally Posted by Sir C
As long as they said up front that if the flight is not full you have to pay more than fine. If I buy a train ticket I don't have to pay more on an empty journey. Or you on your buses - all the same in the long run
that depends on the definition of export, sc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
the stuff our company sells to RoI is considered an 'export' by HMRC. And was so when we were fully paid up EU members.
I understand that but do you think, say, Arsenal should stop playing matches because the stadium is half empty. Which is why I say they are pussies - if the government was stopping them then fine. In the long run people will think twice about booking with an unreliable carrierQuote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Is it in bond?Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Delayed by six months?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
it is considered a 'restricted good'Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
but then, so are 'medical devices'
vg, la :clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda