UK Hotel Quarantine - Does BA Survive?
Jan 21, 2021, 9:32 am
#46
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 491
I would never vacation in this country - the money will stay in my savings account until this is over. Grumpy customer service, sh!t weather and populations that generally look put out to have people visiting. Big no from me.
Jan 21, 2021, 9:35 am
#47
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 579
With at least 35,000 new cases a day at the moment this seems pointless until cases are down well below 1000 a day, if not down to 100 or so. They really just need to properly enforce quarantine as it is now, as I don't think it really is that much.
Holidaying in the UK is actually not too bad, if you can cope with the erratic weather, I went to Scotland a couple of years ago round the highlands and Skye, we want to go back, it is so nice, but living near London, it is a long way! That said we have plenty of friends scattered round Europe so would like to get there again soon too. I have resigned myself to not going longhaul for a while but there is slim hope of Europe like last year, managed two trips to Italy last Summer.
Holidaying in the UK is actually not too bad, if you can cope with the erratic weather, I went to Scotland a couple of years ago round the highlands and Skye, we want to go back, it is so nice, but living near London, it is a long way! That said we have plenty of friends scattered round Europe so would like to get there again soon too. I have resigned myself to not going longhaul for a while but there is slim hope of Europe like last year, managed two trips to Italy last Summer.
And yes I am itching to go on my long-haul reward flights and associated holiday.... but won't do so until a) it is safe personally and b) rules permit it without long periods of quarantine.
Jan 21, 2021, 9:43 am
#48
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IMO, May to September is the best time of the year to be in the UK. Yes the weather can be variable but it will be nice for at least half of the time. It's the gloomy winter period that I prefer to be out of the UK. If not for the 14-21 day hotel quarantines I would be in HK and Australia now.
Jan 21, 2021, 10:58 am
#49
Join Date: Nov 2004
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a) at 38k new cases per day a few hundred more or less will make no difference.
b) the UK already has one of the most concerning mutations (Kent virus) in most new cases.
c) current lockdown means the whole country is basically under quarantine, so hotel quarantine is not adding much.
Once the infection numbers are down and the UK is able to track and trace each infection in a way that AU, NZ, TW, SG, ... do, then having a hotel based quarantine system on arrival may make sense.
Jan 21, 2021, 11:12 am
#50
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No it's not. Anybody can go out to exercise, shop, work etc. Just look at any town centre, there are loads of people around - far more than in the first lookdown.
Jan 21, 2021, 11:16 am
#51
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Coming back from work tonight via a merchant’s (construction and can’t work from home) the roads were very very busy. Certainly nothing like last Mar /April
Jan 21, 2021, 11:25 am
#52
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Queue at Caffè Nero was out into the street. Coffee clearly essential. Amazed how many 45+ year old men in Lycra must come from large households. About 6 rode past me in a pack, all talking/shouting together when I was out alone for my permitted exercise walk. Agree that people just don’t take this threat seriously enough.
Jan 21, 2021, 11:32 am
#53
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One of the SAGE scientists was on BBC today (apologies I forgot his name) and when asked about the current lockdown, he corrected the presenter and said: "we are not in a lockdown, this is Tier 4 only, last March/April was a lockdown, not this one". If the government were serious about this, anything that is absolutely not essential would be closed. A more stringent, harsh lockdown would last shorter than the current restrictions, which appear like they will last till summer or autumn.
Jan 21, 2021, 11:37 am
#54
Join Date: Oct 2015
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Some of the most beautiful places I have ever been, and the most memorable holidays I have ever had, have been in the UK. Cornwall, the Lake District, Snowdonia, Orkney... they are close to the top of my list of places I want to visit when things get back to normal.
Jan 21, 2021, 11:52 am
#55
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: London
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I posted a practically identical thread to this when The UK announced it was closing its borders last week and had wondered how BA would be affected and my poor thread was pulled
oh the folly of BA flyertalk!
I presume BA are assuming and calculating that no one is really going to be flying in 2021 now and have made calculations accordingly for the worse case scenario.
oh the folly of BA flyertalk!
I presume BA are assuming and calculating that no one is really going to be flying in 2021 now and have made calculations accordingly for the worse case scenario.
Jan 21, 2021, 11:57 am
#56
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I posted a practically identical thread to this when The UK announced it was closing its borders last week and had wondered how BA would be affected and my poor thread was pulled
oh the folly of BA flyertalk!
I presume BA are assuming and calculating that no one is really going to be flying in 2021 now and have made calculations accordingly for the worse case scenario.
oh the folly of BA flyertalk!
I presume BA are assuming and calculating that no one is really going to be flying in 2021 now and have made calculations accordingly for the worse case scenario.
Jan 21, 2021, 1:10 pm
#57
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Folks, we wandered away from anything remotely connected to BA several 10s of posts ago, including dives into OMNI territory. It’s moved too far on for deletions, so we’re going to close this as it now has no connection to this forum.
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