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Old Mar 11, 2020, 3:14 pm
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number_6
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Originally Posted by Ellie_CA
.... wait in hope of people cancelling their J class tickets?...
Most corporate travel has been cancelled through April but not yet for May, so if the pandemic develops as expected then most of those J seats will become free in May, fwiw. Hard to predict future loads but some airlines have disclosed that their future bookings are down between 70-90%.....QF has less of a drop, due to the nature of the Australian market, but clearly expects J sales to be way down. My personal opinion is that the airplane part of travel is pretty safe, taxis and trains and even hotels and restaurants are more risky points of exposure. The bigger problem for the airlines is that corporate travel will be down for a decade as video conferencing and remote work is found to be more productive.
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