Coronavirus Impact on Air Travel
"Nothing is completely risk-free. But with just 44 published cases of potential inflight COVID-19 transmission among 1.2 billion travelers, the risk of contracting the virus on board appears to be in the same category as being struck by lightning,” said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA’s Director General and CEO.
Probably not the most unbiased source, but I'll leave it to others to analyse their methodology...
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People don’t sit still, they move around the aircraft, use the toilet, go to the overhead luggage locker and eat and drink. Also the filtering system apparently doesn’t work without engine power which isn’t great of you are on stand for half an hour. The safest place has been reported to be a window seat.
Fat lot of good it does for the travel industry with the summer season having got 3 weeks left to go.
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214 Countries and Territories around the world have this Lurgy and we are still implementing travel bans,corridors and quarantine etc.You can't even travel across the UK without bumping into a circuit-breaker!
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Hence why would Govt spen millions when it is not needed yet for aviation. People are not flying.
I am a cynic, and to me the return of the Greek Islands to quarantine free status probably has more to do with the 18 -30 crowd being back in education, college or University, and of course work making the Islands a less risky place to return from that they were when the grown up "children" were partying; rather then any large reduction in local transmission rates.
Fat lot of good it does for the travel industry with the summer season having got 3 weeks left to go.
Fat lot of good it does for the travel industry with the summer season having got 3 weeks left to go.
For what it’s worth. I don’t think there have been any significant outbreaks involving aircrew on board flights (happy to be proved otherwise if there is evidence or not out there).
As for the government not bailing out airlines - well, the well is starting to run dry. I’d quite like to have a career in this industry. These cash reserves are going to be running seriously short without injections in the next few months.
A lot of the problems of this summer have been deferred down the road to next year: there’s going to be some seriously difficult choices coming executives way.
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Puts a little perspective on flying during the pandemic
Puts a little perspective on flying during the pandemic
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https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/pr...TwYzk_qaSCXCx4
Puts a little perspective on flying during the pandemic
Puts a little perspective on flying during the pandemic
Since the start of 2020 there have been 44 cases of COVID-19 reported in which transmission is thought to have been associated with a flight journey (inclusive of confirmed, probable and potential cases). Over the same period some 1.2 billion passengers have traveled.
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But this doesn't fit the narrative as while thouasands travel London Underground every day the transmission will be blamed on people meeting others in a pub, when it is an aircraft it is the airline at fault. London underground system of course has "clean" filtered air just like a morning in the mountains.
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Travel Industry is dead, 2022 it might recover but the continued scaremongering may make that a struggle.
Racedo is right to be pessimistic. There are differences in facts and perceptions. The public need to "feel" safety whether or not based on fact.
To bring confidence in air travel, the industry needs to work on enhancing personal space. This means a better way of managing security screening, avoiding herds in snake queues. The same at border controls. It means better boarding & disembarkation systems. It means more space, less people on board- less of the cramming maximum numbers in a metal tube. Obviously this comes at a cost and would force the end of ridiculously over low priced tickets. Surely it would be better to transport less people but more comfortably at a higher cost than hardly any people at all. In the short term personal space is going to be the only way to bring back confidence in air travel.
To bring confidence in air travel, the industry needs to work on enhancing personal space. This means a better way of managing security screening, avoiding herds in snake queues. The same at border controls. It means better boarding & disembarkation systems. It means more space, less people on board- less of the cramming maximum numbers in a metal tube. Obviously this comes at a cost and would force the end of ridiculously over low priced tickets. Surely it would be better to transport less people but more comfortably at a higher cost than hardly any people at all. In the short term personal space is going to be the only way to bring back confidence in air travel.
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About a month ago, Easyjet had a policy that on arrival, pax would leave the aircraft one row at a time, so as to ensure social distancing. Last week, that policy had been effectively abandoned with the usual rush for the exit when the seatbelt sign was turned off
The only way to build confidence amongst pax, is to either a) have a vaccine, b) provide PCR or antigen tests with suitable paperwork near a person's home shortly before departure for free or at minimal cost (and this will fail if Govt require 2 tests spaced out a week apart to avoid quarantine), or c) have sufficiently low numbers of cases in both origin and destination that people believe the risk of quarantine anywhere is extremely low.
Anything about publicising how armrests are disinfected, or spacing people out at security queues is purely symbolic. There is enormous overcapacity of aircraft right now - the only way to persuade airlines to raise fares significantly is if a large number of major airlines go bankrupt... or Govt pass laws requiring aircraft fly at no more than maybe 33% of seat capacity
I hate to say it, but the travel industry right now is not a priority for Govts around the world
The only way to build confidence amongst pax, is to either a) have a vaccine, b) provide PCR or antigen tests with suitable paperwork near a person's home shortly before departure for free or at minimal cost (and this will fail if Govt require 2 tests spaced out a week apart to avoid quarantine), or c) have sufficiently low numbers of cases in both origin and destination that people believe the risk of quarantine anywhere is extremely low.
Anything about publicising how armrests are disinfected, or spacing people out at security queues is purely symbolic. There is enormous overcapacity of aircraft right now - the only way to persuade airlines to raise fares significantly is if a large number of major airlines go bankrupt... or Govt pass laws requiring aircraft fly at no more than maybe 33% of seat capacity
I hate to say it, but the travel industry right now is not a priority for Govts around the world
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b) provide PCR or antigen tests with suitable paperwork near a person's home shortly before departure for free or at minimal cost (and this will fail if Govt require 2 tests spaced out a week apart to avoid quarantine),
or c) have sufficiently low numbers of cases in both origin and destination that people believe the risk of quarantine anywhere is extremely low.
As of now there are 37.5 Million reported cases and 1.1 million deaths, assumming because of lack of testing that the cases are double the testing then a 1.5% fatality rate or less of infected people is destroying economies.
Using the worldometer stats https://www.worldometers.info/corona...=homeAdvegas1? that shows a death rate of 4% from 29 million cases.
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Using the worldometer stats https://www.worldometers.info/corona...=homeAdvegas1? that shows a death rate of 4% from 29 million cases.