Delta removing 40% of it's capacity - only European flights will be to London

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Now this from Sky

Trump now includes UK travel ban

May include UK travel ban, according to the article.

Transatlantic travel
 

Never thought I would see this
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....7997b1a9e9.png

This could turn into a total shutdown of aviation!

I think that's a racing certainty.

Before you jump completely to conclusions, it really doesn't look all that different to the picture a month previous. This is the transatlantic situation at 22:00 on the 14th of Feb. Things will change tomorrow, but transatlantic flights depart in regular waves, it's always quiet at this time.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....cff1fac137.png

Exactly. Peak NAT traffic is roughly 0300-0600 and 1100-1400 utc.

Sky news reporting U.K. and Ireland added to the list

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...l-ban-11957614

President Trump just said it has been looked at and that the UK and Ireland ban will be announced soon.

It's now announced - UK and Eire banned from Monday. Dead skies indeed .....

RTÉ confirming ban on travel from Ireland & UK.

JAS

So, in 30 days time, the rest of the world should ban everything American, no flights, no goods, no people.

This is indeed arguably worse than 9/11. I cannot imagine the conversations at British Airways, Ryanair, Aer Lingus senior management right now.

Kinda childish don't you think? Lets just work together to get things back to normal, what ever that looks like.

BBC reporting the US ban too

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51891662

I think there may be other interesting conversations going on at Heathrow just now. There has been an influx of Chinese biz jets into Heathrow over the last few days. I wonder if the conversations might be along the lines of:
"Aah, about your airline."
Yes.
"Give you hundred quid for it!"

While it sounds like a kneejerk reaction, seeing the US is some time behind Europe, chances are that when the virus is going away in Europe, the number of infections in the US will be still increasing.

It might be wise to isolate the US to prevemt a secondary infections back in Europe (also goes for Asia).

I see a United B788 on Flightaware on the way from Paris CDG to San Francisco and landing in about 30min...

Any idea how people will get back from the USA to Europe and the UK??