Coronavirus Impact on Air Travel
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If you want any evidence the Government doesn’t know it’s arse from its elbow when it comes to aviation or anything else for that matter there are still British citizens stranded abroad and returning in dribs and drabs on the odd few charter flights. Other countries managed to sort this on a grand scale weeks ago. Given there’s the odd few aircraft sitting around idle and has been for some weeks it really needn’t have taken so long. It’s not even as though the returnees are getting a free ride!
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If you want any evidence the Government doesn’t know it’s arse from its elbow when it comes to aviation or anything else for that matter there are still British citizens stranded abroad and returning in dribs and drabs on the odd few charter flights. Other countries managed to sort this on a grand scale weeks ago. Given there’s the odd few aircraft sitting around idle and has been for some weeks it really needn’t have taken so long. It’s not even as though the returnees are getting a free ride!
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Your mate Corbyn would have had all the answers particularly if he was relying on Diane Abbott as his chief adviser. It is time to get over your crushing defeat with your crusade and move on. You have already made your politics clear with your outrageous comments on the Southend thread which you was forced to remove.
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Your mate Corbyn would have had all the answers particularly if he was relying on Diane Abbott as his chief adviser. It is time to get over your crushing defeat with your crusade and move on. You have already made your politics clear with your outrageous comments on the Southend thread which you was forced to remove.
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Your mate Corbyn would have had all the answers particularly if he was relying on Diane Abbott as his chief adviser. It is time to get over your crushing defeat with your crusade and move on. You have already made your politics clear with your outrageous comments on the Southend thread which you was forced to remove.
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Priti Patel seems as adept as Diane Abbott at handling statistics and yet that doesn't seem to have been featured highly in the press. I doubt that Corbyn would have done any better than Johnson, probably worse. Keir Starmer on the other hand looks to be the real deal and I would have much more confidence in him at the helm (regardless of petty political party allegiances).
Either way, it's a bit late now. The aviation sector in the UK faces greater challenges than those in much of Europe thanks to the greater impact of the virus on our country. How to survive this is a conundrum......
Either way, it's a bit late now. The aviation sector in the UK faces greater challenges than those in much of Europe thanks to the greater impact of the virus on our country. How to survive this is a conundrum......
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It's only the constant pressure from Left-wing clowns to report deaths contrary to the WHO standard that has given the UK the "highest" number of deaths in Europe. And comparing numbers without considering population size or population density is moronic.
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Greater impact on our country than where? Even with the current statistics, there are at least three large European countries fairing worse than the UK (Belgium, Spain and Italy), and once all countries report on the same playing field, not only will France almost certainly be added to that list, but the gulf between Spain/Italy and the UK will be even more apparent.
It's only the constant pressure from Left-wing clowns to report deaths contrary to the WHO standard that has given the UK the "highest" number of deaths in Europe. And comparing numbers without considering population size or population density is moronic.
It's only the constant pressure from Left-wing clowns to report deaths contrary to the WHO standard that has given the UK the "highest" number of deaths in Europe. And comparing numbers without considering population size or population density is moronic.
UK - 31, 241
Italy - 30, 201
France - 26,188
Spain - 26, 251
Belgium - 8, 521
Germany - 7, 369
Netherlands - 5, 359
It would appear we are still the worst in Europe - with WHO figures.
As for the 14 days quarantine it's a bit too late. Has Priti Patel only just woke up to whats going on? Or realised she's done naff all work for the last 3 months so must do something? Complete and utter waste of tax payers money. She should be sacked from the cabinet and conservative whip should be withdrawn. Most incompetent home secretary this country has ever seen.
Greater impact on our country than where? Even with the current statistics, there are at least three large European countries fairing worse than the UK (Belgium, Spain and Italy), and once all countries report on the same playing field, not only will France almost certainly be added to that list, but the gulf between Spain/Italy and the UK will be even more apparent.
It's only the constant pressure from Left-wing clowns to report deaths contrary to the WHO standard that has given the UK the "highest" number of deaths in Europe. And comparing numbers without considering population size or population density is moronic.
It's only the constant pressure from Left-wing clowns to report deaths contrary to the WHO standard that has given the UK the "highest" number of deaths in Europe. And comparing numbers without considering population size or population density is moronic.
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Is it that you just don't understand that the death rate per 1 million of population shows which country has the "worst" death rate? Why not put the USA at the top of your list with 80,044 total deaths but a rate per 1 million of 242 which actually puts them well down the list.
Is it that you just don't understand that the death rate per 1 million of population shows which country has the "worst" death rate? Why not put the USA at the top of your list with 80,044 total deaths but a rate per 1 million of 242 which actually puts them well down the list.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52491210
I suggest that ppruners read this before commenting.
Just because some other countries are very bad isn't a get out for the UK.
I suggest that ppruners read this before commenting.
Just because some other countries are very bad isn't a get out for the UK.
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Gee, let's not argue about death rates. Certainly death rate per head of population is the way to go but that doesn't really help with only three European countries higher than the UK and several including Germany very much lower than us. Of course we will only know the final picture in the years to come when we compare the excess death rates in 2020 over the average for the previous years so it doesn't really serve any purpose to bite into each other from right, left or centre of the political spectrum. We're all in this together and since this is an aviation forum we need to concentrate our energies on sharing information and, yes, even rumours, on the impact on air travel and the aviation sector not try to score petty points off each other. Jeez.....
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...pe-by-country/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...pe-by-country/
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The U.K. has been quite strict with recording a death attributed to COVID-19. Belgium far more flexible in the way it records a death. This whole episode I feel will only be able to be properly analysed once it’s completely over.
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In Spain deaths of people in private homes and senior residences are not being included, say regional officials. So its not all Apples for Apples when making comparisions !!!!
In view of the difficulty in determining how each country compiles those figures I think we probably all have made valid points so maybe it's time to get back on topic and agree to differ on that aspect of the pandemic.
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Well said. It's been disingenuous of the media not to quote the death rate per 1 million of population, but just as raw numbers in order to give a more sensational and negative headline. For the record the rate per 1 million stands today at Belgium 747, Spain 560, Italy 503 and UK 465.
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Exactly. So what is best for the UK to do to ensure the survival of an aviation sector? Should we increase subsidising our airlines and airports to keep them alive? Should we ensure that our major aerospace companies remain viable? It seems that much more borrowing will be needed to do this and it will be a brave politician who does it.