There Goes Transatlantic Air Travel.
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As a frequent shipper of small items to the USA, I assume that most airmail goes in the hold of passenger flights. As BA and the UK have no dedicated transatlantic freight / package aircraft does this mean UK Royal Mail will have to be diverted to their competitors FedEx , UPS, DHL etc.
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As a frequent shipper of small items to the USA, I assume that most airmail goes in the hold of passenger flights. As BA and the UK have no dedicated transatlantic freight / package aircraft does this mean UK Royal Mail will have to be diverted to their competitors FedEx , UPS, DHL etc.
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Without government help Europe will be without a significant airline industry in half a year. Short work technically is not an airline subsidy but an employee subsidy as money lost through short-time work is covered by the unemployment insurance (reasoning that this is still cheaper than real unemployment).
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Irish Foreign Minister & Deputy Prime Minister (Tánaiste) Simon Coveneny TD, on RTÉ’s main early evening news today has just told all Irish in Spain to return before midnight on Thursday as that’s as far as the government will guarantee flights from the country will be available.
There was a suggestion that flight restrictions might go wider.
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There was a suggestion that flight restrictions might go wider.
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Of course they are and always will be. All we should expect s that they are employed in steps based on data and deactivated the same way, To me it was a throw away line of communication to a question from a nervous public. Just like talking in neutral without committing to anything at the time
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From a thread on the Middle East forum:
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After 9/11 I recall an interesting article on the lack of contrails across the Atlantic causing a rise in temperatures and increased damage to the ozone layer, at the time it was considered unique and possibly coincidence. I wonder what data will be gained once we’re through this situation.
Day 1 of Trump's no fly to the USA.
This is what FR24 reports transatlantic traffic as at 07:21 today. Just about everything flying east (no westbound traffic)
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I just looked on Planefinder and put in a filter to show Heathrow Inbound only. Across the Atlantic as a whole, there is a BA flight approaching the West coast of Ireland with just under 600 miles to run (BA226). On the other side of the ocean, BA192 is over Newfoundland with almost 3,000 miles to go. In between: Nothing! Half a dozen others have arrived or are still arriving at Heathrow but I was looking only at what is over the Atlantic.
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If I've counted correctly, there are 53 arrivals at Heathrow today from the US, and 9 from Canada. Not the normal schedule by any means, but more than the handful you suggest KelvinD.
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I just looked on Planefinder and put in a filter to show Heathrow Inbound only. Across the Atlantic as a whole, there is a BA flight approaching the West coast of Ireland with just under 600 miles to run (BA226). On the other side of the ocean, BA192 is over Newfoundland with almost 3,000 miles to go. In between: Nothing! Half a dozen others have arrived or are still arriving at Heathrow but I was looking only at what is over the Atlantic.
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correct, and no ADS-B receivers either ADS-B coverage FlightAware
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Nonsense! If I look at the Atlantic now, without any filters, I can see virtual flocks across the centre of the Atlantic. EG; Norwegian DI7043 approx half way between Gatwick & Miami and BA027 from LHR to MIA. While the tracks in those positions may not be ADS-B plots, they are extrapolated from flights that were being plotted on either side of the Atlantic until they went out of range of ground based ADS-B receivers. The tracks are usually not too far off the mark.
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Discussion of the trends to our industry in respect of Transatlantic traffic is fine here. Please let's not have detailed blow by blow of each flight and FR24 okay? We don't want a needlessly cluttered thread.