Originally Posted by
commit aviation
https://www.travelweekly.co.uk/artic...ation-guidance
The actual wording on the Gov.uk website is as follows: "You are strongly encouraged to check in baggage to the aircraft hold and minimise any hand baggage. This will speed up boarding and disembarking and minimise the risk of transmission."
I get that "government advice" often/usually originates from a statement from the industry itself, plus their
PR "pusher" in Whitehall, rather than any impartial assessment by civil servants/government, but it really is stretching credulity to say that speeding up boarding/disembarking somehow decreases your chances of catching something, compared to all the rest of the travel process. What about all the additional time and people now crowded round the carousel. Now the industry has long been keen to divert hand baggage to the hold, especially as most have now found some way to collect additional revenue from so doing, but it's yet another example of those seeking additional revenue opportunities (or making political point scoring, such as against aviation overall) just taking inappropriate advantage of the current troubles to suit their own agenda. The attitudes of Willie Walsh and Alex Cruz being a macro example of this.