Originally Posted by
LTNman
For starters the great British holidaymaker will have no control over social distancing on the aircraft. They will have no control if the aircraft is parked on a remote stand and only 2 buses turn up to transport 200 passengers to the terminal. They will have no control of how many flights share their baggage belts. All the time they will be mixing with a variety of different people at close quarters.
Once at the holiday resort they will be in holiday mode where the mindset will be that they have escaped the virus. Lifts will be shared and the people of many nations will freely mix in the evenings in bars and restaurants. Then it is back to home with a queue at check-in where due to terminal constraints social distancing is not possible, back on the bus to the aircraft, back sitting in a metal tube for 2 hours, back to the baggage belt.
What could possibly go wrong. The question is what is more risky, the holiday or the previous or following week?
I totally agree with LTNman. There are so many variables you will not be in control of on an aircraft and at airports. Example if someone walked through at Alicante without any checks at all, who knows how much control you will have when eating/drinking at your resort. What if they, like the airport do not do any checks or do not clean properly anything you touch could be infected. I just do not get the mentality of some people who are so desperate to go on holiday knowing the risk is there and putting themselves and their family at risk.
And for FFMan yes there are risks in all aspects of life, but we do not have to accept them or put ourselves in harms way. If risks are acceptable maybe we should go on holiday to a war torn country !!! But we dont do we, why Oh yes the risk of getting killed ? COVID is a silent and unseen killer that could be right next to you at any time ?