Where and Why are People Still Flying?
Mar 21, 20, 10:36 am
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Where and Why are People Still Flying?
I'm curious, title says it all... where and why are people still flying.
Sorry if this has already been asked... mods feel free to merge if so!
rb211.
Sorry if this has already been asked... mods feel free to merge if so!
rb211.
Mar 21, 20, 10:47 am
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To get to family/escape to safety.
Mar 21, 20, 10:50 am
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I know a couple of families (parents and children under 10) who are split up at the moment in different countries and trying to work out how they will get back together.
In both cases they were visiting parents in another country to where they live, and for different reasons, they weren't in a position to be able to just jump on a flight to get back to their families when flights were being cancelled and boarders closed.
One of them is hoping BA will be able to bring them back to their partner and kids who they haven't seen for three weeks.
In both cases they were visiting parents in another country to where they live, and for different reasons, they weren't in a position to be able to just jump on a flight to get back to their families when flights were being cancelled and boarders closed.
One of them is hoping BA will be able to bring them back to their partner and kids who they haven't seen for three weeks.
Mar 21, 20, 10:59 am
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they need to go somewhere, eg nationals returning home early from holidays and not every country has imposed knee-jerk isolation/no entry yet.
Mar 21, 20, 11:25 am
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The UK must be one of the few countries that hasn't imposed some sort of entry restrictions. I imagine most flights now are basically as you say people getting home or airlines being paid by governments to repatriate citizens. Can't see how much longer even this volume of non cargo aviation can be sustainable though
Mar 21, 20, 11:27 am
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Theres a lot of holidaying customers being brought home (both directions) - paid for largely by package holiday and insurance companies who are obligated to support.
Also a fair amount of government traffic, which is exempt from bans in nearly every country.
Also a fair amount of government traffic, which is exempt from bans in nearly every country.
Mar 21, 20, 11:31 am
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The government have just closed all the schools - and the boarding school children now have to return home.
The university closure also may result in many overseas students heading home.
The university closure also may result in many overseas students heading home.
Mar 21, 20, 11:33 am
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What's the link to BA here? Seems somewhat off piste to me.
Mar 21, 20, 11:48 am
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I hope the Mods will allow some discretion regarding allowable topics because direct BA items are diminishing rapidly.
Mar 21, 20, 11:50 am
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This is not strictly true, as private schools don't always have to comply with government recommendations, although I am not aware of any that aren't. However, pupils would still be provisioned to stay until the end of term anyway as flights may have already been booked/ other arrangements made and so there would still be some pupils in schools for the next week or so.
Mar 21, 20, 12:30 pm
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This is not strictly true, as private schools don't always have to comply with government recommendations, although I am not aware of any that aren't. However, pupils would still be provisioned to stay until the end of term anyway as flights may have already been booked/ other arrangements made and so there would still be some pupils in schools for the next week or so.
Interesting times all round!
Mar 21, 20, 12:45 pm
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BA took me to Amsterdam today. I’ve searched the city high and low for Tork Premium toiletpapier. I’ll be flying home empty handed tonight. The red white and blue serviettes in the lounge are looking mighty tempting.... 
Mar 21, 20, 12:48 pm
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London tmrw for a meeting Monday then back up home
Mar 21, 20, 1:01 pm
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Off to Munich on Monday (I see the flight(the only one of the day) is full) - pick up my stuff (I live there) and come back to the UK on Wednesday. I was due to be leaving Germany in April but will hold off de-registering as if it all goes to sh*t then I am better off with the German social system than the UK one!
Mar 21, 20, 1:33 pm
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Flying. People flying. BA flies people. I think most of us have the intelligence to make the small leap to include '..on BA' to the thread title, considering this is literally the BA board, without explicitly spelling it out? Sheesh 
