BA cancel all flights to and from China due to Coronavirus
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BA cancel all flights to and from China due to Coronavirus
Coronavirus: BA suspends flights to and from mainland China - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51292590
What are you thoughts?
What are you thoughts?
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Originally Posted by jafar
Coronavirus: BA suspends flights to and from mainland China - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51292590
What are you thoughts?
What are you thoughts?
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In the last few hours the U.K. FCO changed it’s travel advice to “....advise against all but essential travel to the rest of mainland China (not including Hong Kong and Macao)”. Given that advice and also given the company has a duty of care to it’s crew members operating flights to/from China and as a consequence laying over in either Beijing or Shanghai I’d say it’s a reasonable decision.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/china
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/china
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Potentially a commercial decision too. Apparently intercontinental loads inbound to China from Europe and the USA have plummeted this week. But arrangements for crew hotac, and serving a planeload of China departing pax at close quarters, are likely uppermost.
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We flew to Shanghai a couple of days ago, only about a 100 on the BA 777-200. I would have changed the plans but BAs announcements came out too late, we did however, cancel our plans for Shanghai and connected straight to Hanoi. The return is from Singapore, fingers crossed that the isolated cases there remain just that. What was interesting is that on our Vietnam Airlines flight the crew were permitted to wear masks whilst BA had neither provided nor allowed their own crew the same, albeit limited, protection.
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Originally Posted by AndoniP
Maybe on advice from the FO? Perhaps the FO have greater visibility as to the extent of the virus in China and have decided to limit movement of people to and from the country.
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Whats the legal position on being forcibly quarantined in the UK? Would it be possible to refuse? Does HMG pay compensation for lost days at work? I could see a few problems with this.
will the crew flying the pax back also be quarantined? I know how stingy BA are so I’d expect the crew to be unpaid during this period.
will the crew flying the pax back also be quarantined? I know how stingy BA are so I’d expect the crew to be unpaid during this period.
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Originally Posted by anson harris
Returning pax from UK to China are to be put in quarantine for 2 weeks. At least someone is taking it seriously.
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Knowing a thing or two about the decision making process at Waterside, I'd say this was a purely commercial decision based on falling passenger numbers and projected LF, with the PR dapertment tasked with coming up with a heart-wrenching story about the deep concern for the wellbeing of passengers and crew.
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Originally Posted by rudolf
What was interesting is that on our Vietnam Airlines flight the crew were permitted to wear masks whilst BA had neither provided nor allowed their own crew the same, albeit limited, protection.
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and what's being done to catch people flying into the UK and Europe who choose to travel via Dubai and Qatar (other hubs are available) ?. Reports on the radio this morning were that ex China flights to the middle east were way over subscribed.
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Originally Posted by hunterboy
Whats the legal position on being forcibly quarantined in the UK? Would it be possible to refuse? Does HMG pay compensation for lost days at work? I could see a few problems with this.
will the crew flying the pax back also be quarantined? I know how stingy BA are so I’d expect the crew to be unpaid during this period.
will the crew flying the pax back also be quarantined? I know how stingy BA are so I’d expect the crew to be unpaid during this period.
Scheduled carriers, including United Airlines and British Airways, have said they are cancelling flights to China as demand fell sharply and global companies told their employees not to travel due to deepening fears over the spread of a flu-like virus.Chicago-based United Airlines said it was suspending 24 US flights to Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai between February 1 and February 8 due to a significant drop in demand.
British Airways has suspended all direct flights to and from mainland China after the UK's warning.
British Airways has suspended all direct flights to and from mainland China after the UK's warning.
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Originally Posted by rudolf
We flew to Shanghai a couple of days ago, only about a 100 on the BA 777-200. I would have changed the plans but BAs announcements came out too late, we did however, cancel our plans for Shanghai and connected straight to Hanoi. The return is from Singapore, fingers crossed that the isolated cases there remain just that. What was interesting is that on our Vietnam Airlines flight the crew were permitted to wear masks whilst BA had neither provided nor allowed their own crew the same, albeit limited, protection.
From what you can read elsewhere, facemasks (like those prevalent in South East Asia), don't appear to actually work in this instance... they are more a placebo for the crew than an effective barrier.
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Originally Posted by jafar
Seriously... or is UK following the panic pandemic?
