racedo
I am an engineer and not a physician so I am unsure. However would that not be the same with some other diseases which we have successfully eradicated or at least curtailed their effect ? So I would presume you adapt vaccine or indeed I suppose it depends how far a mutation become vaccine proof, a little similar to the various anti malarial tablets.

The feathers are still being ruffled...

CMA launches investigation into airlines over refunds

Mr Mac

True but as this virus while studied to death is still not understood. Makes it even more difficult.

Tier 4 expected to be announced at 4pm press conference for England. Can it get any worse?

Unfortunately yes. If the new variant is more infectious, then however good those studies on transmission of covid in an aircraft cabin were, they will need to be revised.

On the plus side The Oxford vaccine may well be authorised in the UK before the New Year. As it is much easier to administer then proper mass vaccination can start.

There's been 'new' strains of the virus since the very beginning. What makes this one so different ? - one would be forgiven for thinking the Game of Thrones script writers have been drafted in. All just seems a little bit too convenient to me to allow the Government to row back on lifting the Christmas restrictions.

2Planks

The approval does seem to be more drawn out than the others - Can't help but have feeling that the authorities have yet to be convinced !

Tier 4 areas banned from travelling abroad unless essential from midnight.

Did you want the long explanation, or the idiot's one ?

So the new variant of this virus is calculated as being 70% more transmissible and looks like it started in the South East. Already it is evident in Europe including Germany. So is flying still deemed safe or is that the old version?

Mutation explanation
 

Only a week since the vaccine came out and guess what there is a new variation of the Lurgy,well I never! Next thing is,will the vaccine continue to work with the new Lurgy.'Double double toil and trouble/Fire burn and cauldron bubble'

DaveReidUK

I'll take the idiots version please.

LTNman

Was it, or another variant, also not responsible for the rapid increases in cases in Spain earlier in the Autumn, and did the Scottish government say there was scientific evidence that it was spread to Scotland through travel from Spain? Much as we all want air travel to recover, I'm afraid we do need to accept that travel is a major cause of spread, be that between London and Manchester, or Palma and Glasgow. Viruses don't respect borders.

ericsson16

Apparently the vaccine still works with the new strain.

Essential travel ony..umm...Nobody polices this as a lot still going on hols. The cabin is safer than some places but I wonder how many carry it abroard & back and don't know it?

Will airports in tier 4 remain open? I assume nothing will change for airports in tier 3 cities i.e. Manchester? I travelled in the first lockdown and most airports remained operational

ATNotts

And London and Kent,Glasgow and Helensburgh.The virus is in every county,parish,district,shire,country,territory, on this Earth,This obsession with air travel,the route of all evil is insane.You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

This is death by a thousand cuts for airports and airlines. Greta Sunak really must finally provide real financial support to these and the travel sector generally as most other major economies have already done.

Christmas also effectively cancelled in Germany, Benelux, Italy. Nowhere to hide.

ericsson16

Maybe because it is a thread discussing the impact on air travel in an aviation forum? Not a complete shock surely?

Plenty of more general discussion in JetBlast and elsewhere.

And yes, the toothpaste is out of the tube, but it's spread differently in different places at the moment...

Very true but when this is a forum for aviation air travel will always be top of the agenda while most people will never mention it.