Clearance to land in NSW to be dependent on presence of Covid test team
That's not the point CC. JQ was asked not to open the door until the health team, who were busy processing another flight, had arrived at the gate. They didn't. They opened the door and let everyone off. It pretty easy to not open the door. Nobody has asked the airline to conduct checks.
Can't we just give all incoming pax a Chloroquine pill and spray them with Dettol before they get off? They walk past a little thermal camera nearby, to catch those with a fever, they get an injection of Handy Andy.
If I had a dollar for every time I got to the gate and there was no gate staff there I could have got a particular airline out of Admin.
This isn’t rocket science, It is a new way of doing business. Dare I say it a new Covid normal.
This isn’t rocket science, It is a new way of doing business. Dare I say it a new Covid normal.
Why not just adopt what already happens on the international side?
When inbound with a sick pax( these days everyone is assume to be sick). Pull up at the gate, nobody gets off until quarantine give the all clear. In the current case just use NSW govt health staff instead of Aust Quarantine.
When inbound with a sick pax( these days everyone is assume to be sick). Pull up at the gate, nobody gets off until quarantine give the all clear. In the current case just use NSW govt health staff instead of Aust Quarantine.
On the bright side some of us are still getting paid until the parking brake is set (block hours contracts) so if I have to hold with one engine running at least I am not waiting on my own time. Having said that just not disembarking would seem to fulfil the intention.
Try locking the door and not letting people off.
Can anyone confirm what these 'Covid Testing Teams' actually do? Some articles say they tell passengers to stand 1.5 metres apart, others that they take your temperature and yet others do a questionnaire
Anyone not spatially separating in the terminal has lost the plot. Temperature checks and questionnaires in isolation are effectively worthless
Good luck my Australian brethren
Anyone not spatially separating in the terminal has lost the plot. Temperature checks and questionnaires in isolation are effectively worthless
Good luck my Australian brethren
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I noticed it a lot in a now previous life, introduce things without talking to the operators. I’m not saying pilots know it all but a quick ask for some input might have pointed out to whoever owns this that here is already a procedure that would dovetail well into this ie, no one approaches the aircraft until the beacon is off and in this Covid world the beacon doesn’t come off until the feds/state are in the aerobridge. I think with that procedure you wouldn’t even need ATC, they just clear you to the gate as per normal and your airline AMCO gives you the nod once you are on the gate and then you turn the beacon off...is simpiles!!
The strobe light is a flashing red light, not a frickin laser on a shark number 2!
But D if you want to stand off a bay with two turning and burning for a length of time sorting out the admin with passengers standing up and sitting down because that is a safer more efficient way of doing business fill your boots. I think this requirement is going to be around for more than a couple of weeks. At this juncture in time it is safer and much more cost effective to the whole nation to keep the beacon on until it is safe to let the passengers wonder off into the night. I’m not to sure anyone has been hurt with a beacon light on and the engines off because they already understand don’t go near the thing.
‘Adapt and overcome’, Sgt Gunny.
But D if you want to stand off a bay with two turning and burning for a length of time sorting out the admin with passengers standing up and sitting down because that is a safer more efficient way of doing business fill your boots. I think this requirement is going to be around for more than a couple of weeks. At this juncture in time it is safer and much more cost effective to the whole nation to keep the beacon on until it is safe to let the passengers wonder off into the night. I’m not to sure anyone has been hurt with a beacon light on and the engines off because they already understand don’t go near the thing.
‘Adapt and overcome’, Sgt Gunny.
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The strobe light is a flashing red light, not a frickin laser on a shark number 2!
But D if you want to stand off a bay with two turning and burning for a length of time sorting out the admin with passengers standing up and sitting down because that is a safer more efficient way of doing business fill your boots. I think this requirement is going to be around for more than a couple of weeks. At this juncture in time it is safer and much more cost effective to the whole nation to keep the beacon on until it is safe to let the passengers wonder off into the night. I’m not to sure anyone has been hurt with a beacon light on and the engines off because they already understand don’t go near the thing.
‘Adapt and overcome’, Sgt Gunny.
But D if you want to stand off a bay with two turning and burning for a length of time sorting out the admin with passengers standing up and sitting down because that is a safer more efficient way of doing business fill your boots. I think this requirement is going to be around for more than a couple of weeks. At this juncture in time it is safer and much more cost effective to the whole nation to keep the beacon on until it is safe to let the passengers wonder off into the night. I’m not to sure anyone has been hurt with a beacon light on and the engines off because they already understand don’t go near the thing.
‘Adapt and overcome’, Sgt Gunny.
