2021 Paris Air Show cancelled
Does anyone really care that the show has been cancelled?
Airline people should be aware that more is needed than video conferencing to sell products and services.
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Munich, Germany
Age: 80
Posts: 129
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
ATC - Watcher, I did not read the FAZ note too fast. Of course there is always room for negotiations, but it sounded like the decision is final. FAZ, as you probably know, is the most reputeable newspaper in the country.
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Munich, Germany
Age: 80
Posts: 129
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
As long a Covid 19 is a serious threat, with no end in sight, and with countries closing their borders, there is no way to bring back air travel to the general public. I just see a booking going down the drain. Sadly, but a fact, I have to live with. Even if people have been vaccinated, it might take years to bring air travel back to pre Covid standard. Those who lost their jobs, will have other priorities, than planning for holidays.
Last edited by BEA 71; 11th Dec 2020 at 17:17. Reason: spelling errors
Pegase Driver
Join Date: May 1997
Location: Europe
Age: 73
Posts: 3,669
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
BERLIN, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Lufthansa will have to lay off 1,000 pilots in the second quarter if it cannot seal a wage agreement with unions, Chief Executive Carsten Spohr told German magazine Wirtschaftswoche.
“In the absence of an agreement, it will probably be the first time in the history of our company that 500 captains and 500 first officers will have to leave us in the second quarter of 2021,” Spohr was quoted as saying on Friday.
“In the absence of an agreement, it will probably be the first time in the history of our company that 500 captains and 500 first officers will have to leave us in the second quarter of 2021,” Spohr was quoted as saying on Friday.
it might take years to bring air travel back to pre Covid standard.
.This afternoon Sanofi, an old serious vaccine laboratory said their phase 3 tests are not conclusive and current high effectiveness is only on young people, so they do not expect to deliver their vaccine before end of 2021.
Last edited by Pilot DAR; 13th Dec 2020 at 15:31. Reason: typo
Is anyone here serious?
IATA traffic is down 80% plus in their latest statistics (https://centreforaviation.com/news/i...covery-1042061) and we pretend 500 Captains is an issue??
The industry is in danger of disappearing, but management and the workers are both stuck in existing rituals. Sad that no one any better ideas.
IATA traffic is down 80% plus in their latest statistics (https://centreforaviation.com/news/i...covery-1042061) and we pretend 500 Captains is an issue??
The industry is in danger of disappearing, but management and the workers are both stuck in existing rituals. Sad that no one any better ideas.
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Within AM radio broadcast range of downtown Chicago
Age: 71
Posts: 839
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Future Air Show Will Be In . . .?
Your friendly forum-neighborhood SLF/attorney, first of all, is staying away from both semi-mourning the semi-death of international civil aviation, as well as overtly prognosticating how bad or how long the depression in air transport will last.
Instead since the thread is about Paris-2021, and for what little it probably counts, since about 1976 when I first read about events like Farnborough and Paris (in a well-known aviation and space weekly periodical) I realized what a fabulous experience it would be to attend either one or both - but only if a professional situation could someday be attained in a part of the industry covered by (at that time) Industry Observer. Heck, as a kid I used to run to one of the observation decks at a certain large Chicago airport every trip there to see people off or pick them up, time permitting. To be at one of the international shows, able to observe? Almost as motivational as an enduring fondness for air travel itself, maybe more. So it's sad, separately from the teetering, near demise of the industry, at the spikey-protein points of a super-novel viral scourge, to know Paris is off the books, for its next round anyway.
Well, almost staying away.... I can't connect the dots from where things stand now to what reason and experience tell us the future will bring, but (IMHO) the benefits of air transport, and the contributions it makes to virtually all sectors of any even medium-sized economy, will lead to its return. Otherwise, just like I'm constantly told to replace "manned" in all earlier references to human spaceflight with "crewed", we should shred all the nicely packaged IATA and ICAO growth projections from over the past, what, ten years or so? And let's not forget also to shred reports like the Wise Persons Group on the Future of the Single European Sky (April 2019) along with many, many reports and documents about future ATM and the aviation sector in general. If I have to pronounce a hope, it would be that the vaccine as inoculation will bring some restoration - but as an example of "get-off-your-cellphone and develop something complex technologically fast" ingenuity it will be the real restorative attitude adjustment. Meanwhile, we'll always have Paris . . . no?
Instead since the thread is about Paris-2021, and for what little it probably counts, since about 1976 when I first read about events like Farnborough and Paris (in a well-known aviation and space weekly periodical) I realized what a fabulous experience it would be to attend either one or both - but only if a professional situation could someday be attained in a part of the industry covered by (at that time) Industry Observer. Heck, as a kid I used to run to one of the observation decks at a certain large Chicago airport every trip there to see people off or pick them up, time permitting. To be at one of the international shows, able to observe? Almost as motivational as an enduring fondness for air travel itself, maybe more. So it's sad, separately from the teetering, near demise of the industry, at the spikey-protein points of a super-novel viral scourge, to know Paris is off the books, for its next round anyway.
Well, almost staying away.... I can't connect the dots from where things stand now to what reason and experience tell us the future will bring, but (IMHO) the benefits of air transport, and the contributions it makes to virtually all sectors of any even medium-sized economy, will lead to its return. Otherwise, just like I'm constantly told to replace "manned" in all earlier references to human spaceflight with "crewed", we should shred all the nicely packaged IATA and ICAO growth projections from over the past, what, ten years or so? And let's not forget also to shred reports like the Wise Persons Group on the Future of the Single European Sky (April 2019) along with many, many reports and documents about future ATM and the aviation sector in general. If I have to pronounce a hope, it would be that the vaccine as inoculation will bring some restoration - but as an example of "get-off-your-cellphone and develop something complex technologically fast" ingenuity it will be the real restorative attitude adjustment. Meanwhile, we'll always have Paris . . . no?
The air show part might be nice to watch for the public but the trade show part is what is and will remain relevant. A lot of technologies are changing, carbon, hydrogen, unmanned, electric, fabrication, computing and such, so new suppliers and innovators are looked for. There is every reason for the industry to meet again when this is over. It's not a thing of the past. Skype is not enough. Not sure if every trade show will survive but some, including Paris, are needed.
