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Old 18th April 2010 | 09:30
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Snoopy
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I mean , the market is still there , flights have to be flown , only the revenue is missing for a few days / weeks.
There will be a tremendous backlog of people to move once the dust has settled. I have a colleague in Shanghai who was supposed to fly yesterday. The earliest they could rebook him is the 25th April. He has status on that airline and so they were looking after him. Other people on the same flight were being rebooked on May 10th!!! I have also heard that warehouses are full of freight that isn't being moved and all this stuff will also need to be shipped.

When all this is done and dusted it will probably be all hands on deck. I can imagine that some of you will never have worked as hard in your lives. Let's all hope that is sooner rather than later. In the meantime...best of luck to one and all!
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