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Old 25th Mar 2020, 21:12
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Originally Posted by sheikhthecamel
With its geographically diversified route footprint, if I were a pilot, I'd personally rather be at EK than almost any other airline I can think of right now - purely in terms of job security.
That argument could swing both ways. Any northern European airline flying bucket and spade only to Spain needs just one country border to re-open. Each ME3 carrier needs 160+ country borders to re-open, and to stay open, in order to restore its full network coverage. Every time a lock down is lifted, the virus returns from overseas travellers (isn't HK now into its 3rd wave of the virus?)... the M3 need to funnel pax from all 160+ countries to fill those 380s out of the hubs. Even if all country borders stay closed, most other major carriers will have some domestic air travel to fall back on once the virus is contained back home.
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