Does anyone have any stats on the no-show rates from maybe last year and a day in the last week where people are likely travelling from a low-risk area where they live to a high-risk area which is not their home ? Something like the no-show rate in the last few days for flights from London to Verona or Venice is the kind of idea I'm thinking of

I'm not interested in just a single flight - would be far more interested to understand what's happening to overall desire to travel, even when people know they will not get a refund on their ticket.

I heard an actual expert on R4 this morning. The death rate from this virus is 10x that from flu, because most of us have some immunity to flu.
And most public buildings in Milan, such as the cathedral, are closed.

I think the recent cancellations by EasyJet and BA give you your answer. From mid-March, EZY are cancelling at least 48 departures from Malpensa each week, and at least 28 from Venice. OK, these aren't strictly "no-shows", but they are an indication of the level of bookings and cancellations at present. To put it in context, this means EZY are cancelling around 20% of the departures on these routes.

US-Europe links are now being cut
American Airlines is suspending all flights from NYC and Miami to Milan Malpensa until 24 April

https://www.reuters.com/article/chin...-idUSL1N2AU01Y

Can’t help but think that one of the main reasons for the fast spread of this virus around the world is the reluctance of governments to introduce travel bans from the worst affected area. Just need to look at the cases that have come from Northern Italy travellers to the 4 corners of the world.

Meanwhile while third world countries that border Iran have closed their borders to Iran no such restrictions have been introduced here.

Yeah we should've stopped all flights from China... just like Italy.

It is a problem for all forms of overseas travel as well, we have a motorhome and it is noticeable how many others chatting on related forums say they will be staying in the UK this year and not travelling in France and the rest of Europe. On the plus side there was a picture taken by NASA in the last 48 hours which shows a significant drop in pollution levels over China!
Sadly the airline industry is not the place to be if you want long term job security, been there and got that T shirt.

I think one of the issues for airlines will be their longstanding desire to offer the best fares by booking well ahead, and then insistence that the moment you book, you cannot get your money back. This means that when there is any uncertainty about what may happen at destination (eg the cancellation of the Geneva Motor Show, mentioned above, done with 1 weeks' notice) there are going to be a lot of business travellers with now useless plane tickets. Hotels and car rental are not nearly so bad with this. This approach is very rapidly going to put people off advance booking.

Likely in the majority of business related traffic it is a business paying, not Joe Bloggs, hence while business will suffer the employees will not be out of pocket. Issue is smaller suppliers / individuals where cash is out of pocket.

If Airlines are forced to cancel the route then persons booked entitled to money back, may be easier said than done if forces airline into a cash crisis. Figure lots of airlines (business) already hoarding cash.

I figure there will be lots of people with motorhomes making sure the engine is ticking over, things are working and where necessary they can get in and out of dodge in 12 hours. Self isolation in a motorhome is easy as quite a few do it anyway in travelling around. Just find a place to park............... airport runways could be ideal place soon.

Fuel up at service stations with CC only pumps and online ordering and pickup from supermarket where shopping is left for you to bring in or meet the Tesco van at X location.

Weather raining over last 2 weeks has probably been good for stopping spread of virus outdoors, soon as in the air it gets splodeged by raindrops and onto the group.

I see people at Luton kissing and cuddling after meeting family from all over Europe. Other airports it is from travellers from all over the world. I don’t touch any surface at Luton including the hand rails on airport busses and lift buttons as I consider any airport to be high risk.

Also I am aware that I touch my nose, mouth and eyes hundreds of times a day. I am trying to reduce it but it is done without a thought.

Load factors are declining quickly
 

This is across the board; scheduled domestic and international short-haul and long-haul. Holiday sun/beach flights so far relatively unaffected. Not anecdotal, fact. Most unfortunate for all friends and former colleagues in aviation and related industries. It looks like the effects will be far more widespread than aviation alone. (Over-reaction IMHO; that IS anecdotal)

Delta is also suspending JFK-MXP until 1st of May
https://www.forbes.com/sites/catheri.../#71ca39f65382

TK is also suspending all flights to Italy (along with Iran,Iraq,China,S.Korea)

https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-...ry-29-update-2

What will happen if the virus gets out of control in rest of Europe,like it did in Italy? Will they suspend all european flights? Cases in Germany, France and Spain are rising rapidly everyday..

Let us suppose for a moment that Europe goes into some sort of lockdown comparable to the current state in China.
What happens to places like Mallorca or Corfu, islands whose economies are almost completely dependent on millions of sun-starved visitors from northern Europe coming to visit ?

EZY, RYR, WZZ stocks are dropping, they have cancelled or reduced flights to north Italy and other destinations, some have frozen their recruitment.

Is not like in the past, during the last economic crisis the low cost where still growing due the low tickets price, now pax don't want to fly either for prevention or hysteria.

Is the reason for stability in sun/beach flights that these have greater tendency to be booked well in advance? And that actually over the next few weeks as later bookings dry up these too will decline?

I think the BBC is guilty of not offering a proportionate narrative when reporting the likely effects of the virus becoming widespread in the UK.

Today on their website topic 'What are the symptoms?' they write: 'It seems to start with a fever, followed by a dry cough. After a week it leads to a shortness of breath and some patients may require hospital treatment.'

The 20th February 2020 analysis from the WHO China Joint Mission on Coronavirus states that of 55,924 cases studied 87.9% had a fever, 67.7% a dry cough and 18.6% shortness of breath.

So less than 1 in 5 patients suffered shortness of breath. Reading the BBC report you would be led to think that everyone suffers shortness of breath - a quite alarming prospect.

While obviously a very serious situation is evolving, sloppy reporting is something that I would have expected the BBC to avoid.

Until the global media change the narrative to:
'There is a nasty strain of virus trotting around the globe, wash your hands often, sanitise if you can, don't shake hands, but keep calm and carry on' then there is little chance of this situation not changing the airline landscape drastically... I'm all for freedom of speech but when there is no mechanism to control the internet/media reporting and spread of information then there is little chance of containing the panic and fear which leads to a lack of confidence in the travelling public and corporates banning all travel through fear of the legal repercussions if you knowingly send someone for a meeting using airline travel that then turned sour! - Instead - work from home...

Unfortunately, the fixed costs of airlines are not up for negotiation and the burn rate of cash is eye-watering even if you get a 3-month sabbatical on the aircraft lease payments - trading insolvently in the hope this is a short-lived problem is a fool's game that only makes the problem worse when you do go bust.

Investor confidence in anything airline related for the next 5-10 years will be long gone, and lessors will now change their operating models to take account of events like this.

Tighten those straps were in for a bit of severe turbulence!

LH emailed to offer European travel on the next three months to have Triple M&M. Even I had not just been on holiday, the answer would be No.

This is going to be serious. But it will be another six weeks before we can see what the story is.

There is a great deal of (possibly) unintended but nevertheless inaccurate reporting about this virus which is fueling the panic. For sure all form of businesses are going to suffer the consequences, many of which could have been avoided. The outcome may be that the virus may kill more businesses than people!