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Old 11th Jun 2020, 11:28
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excrab
 
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I really don’t think you need to be a “management troll” to predict that the results of this pandemic will have a devastating effect on the industry. Just read the papers or watch the news, apart from the “our plan is working” UK government daily briefing. For the UK alone there are predictions of the UK economy suffering it’s worst recession in peace time, housing market crashing and 3.5 million people unemployed who won’t be spending money on going on holiday. Let’s say though that it’s not that bad, and is only as bad as the mini recession of the early 1990s. That lasted for four years, and I remember ex airline pilots with 10,000 hours sitting in the right seat of Navajos for no pay, just to get a bit of flying on empty sectors, and people coming out of Oxford in 1991 and taking six years to find a job. Add to that the unemployed pilots from Airlines around the UK and expats coming back from all over the world and sadly I can’t really share the optimism. Let’s just hope I’m wrong.
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