Corona virus and its effects on GLA

[bill]

Excluding Loganair, 11 flights today.

6 easyJet, 2 Ryanair, 2 BA, 1 KLM

Including Loganair, the Swift Air freighter, the GAMA King Air Flights and G-EUYH going back to LHR, think it's over 20 flights for the day.

Amazing to think that we used to have almost 20 flights departing between 6am and 7am alone.

[McG]

For first time since service went daily, KLM are reintroducing the night stopper at GLA. As a result there is an extra inbound flight later today with a 737-800.

New schedule sees the early morning departure from GLA and an 18:15 arrival from AMS in the evening.

KLM booking engine shows possible return to 3 daily in August.

[Clive]

http://news.stv.tv/politics/airports-sl ... ir-bridges

A poor show IMO from our Mark and par for the course from Dewar. Presumably Mark is being quoted out of context by STV who of course want to make this a SNPBad story.

For absolute clarity, Green is for go. Red is for stop. Our Scottish Government are going along with the UK’s list from 10 July - same as England and Wales. The Scottish Government are working on the amber list because they don’t want to risk lives by being reckless. Lower risk than Scotland is good, higher risk is not, and the situation is dynamic. If that’s not good enough for our airport bosses then they may be in the wrong profession. Just blindly go along with Boris’ shambolic government and there will be plenty vacancies for undertakers if that’s what they’d prefer.

[Clive]

Fully agree. Allen. One tiny point, national parliaments, not regional. On devolved issues there’s no central UK position. There’s that of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England. England’s position is not the de facto position on anything.

Of course airport bosses want everything back and booming. We all do, just as soon as safely possible. We just want our loved ones to be able to witness it too.

Any politician, commentator or business owner proffering otherwise is part of the problem, not the solution.

[Clive]

So this morning the ever impressive travel journalist Simon Calder and our very own Derek Proven were on Radio Scotland to talk about the quarantine and air bridges debacle.

Both were at pains not to go along with the SNPBad narrative that the BBC and EDI’s unionist boss Gordon Dewar were trying to push. So good for them.

Looking forward to very soon getting Scotland’s list of countries from which travellers will be free to come and go so that folks can book trips with confidence.

[hads]

Politics free Forum indeed.

[Clive]

Politics free Forum indeed.

Indeedy.

Unfortunately the whole aspect of the handling of the pandemic is political and political decisions are currently what our travel industry are waiting for.

We’ll say no more once the green light is given. July 10 is when the daft quarantine idea will be binned.

Anyhoo, I’m already booked for AGP for 4 August. I’m as certain as can be (barring any unforeseen new lockdown in Andalucía) that there will be no travel restrictions to affect me by then. Ergo I don’t quite see why the travel industry is making such a stooshie about any delay as they see it.

[atuk]

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Politics free Forum indeed.

Indeedy.

Unfortunately the whole aspect of the handling of the pandemic is political and political decisions are currently what our travel industry are waiting for.

We’ll say no more once the green light is given. July 10 is when the daft quarantine idea will be binned.

Anyhoo, I’m already booked for AGP for 4 August. I’m as certain as can be (barring any unforeseen new lockdown in Andalucía) that there will be no travel restrictions to affect me by then. Ergo I don’t quite see why the travel industry is making such a stooshie about any delay as they see it.
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I wish I could see it that way.

Holidays cancelled and from the inside airlines won’t confirm their schedules until they know it’s safe to do so. Ergo few recalled from furlough, 100% government funded payments cease from 31st July and no money in the kitty to fund August payroll since Limited or zero cash flow generated to alleviate this critical situation.

Kickstart aviation and you give new life to the entire hospitality sector. The clock’s ticking and real help, not trite statements are required right now.

[Clive]

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Politics free Forum indeed.

Indeedy.

Unfortunately the whole aspect of the handling of the pandemic is political and political decisions are currently what our travel industry are waiting for.

We’ll say no more once the green light is given. July 10 is when the daft quarantine idea will be binned.

Anyhoo, I’m already booked for AGP for 4 August. I’m as certain as can be (barring any unforeseen new lockdown in Andalucía) that there will be no travel restrictions to affect me by then. Ergo I don’t quite see why the travel industry is making such a stooshie about any delay as they see it.

I wish I could see it that way.

Holidays cancelled and from the inside airlines won’t confirm their schedules until they know it’s safe to do so. Ergo few recalled from furlough, 100% government funded payments cease from 31st July and no money in the kitty to fund August payroll since Limited or zero cash flow generated to alleviate this critical situation.

Kickstart aviation and you give new life to the entire hospitality sector. The clock’s ticking and real help, not trite statements are required right now.
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They’ll get confirmation on Thursday and even if it has to be delayed for the Amber infectious countries, it’ll soon come as they get on top of their R numbers. Obviously you wouldn’t be expecting any rash decisions.

On a side note, I was hearing all about the safety measures and changes to everything that Jet2 are making. It’s actually quite impressive how thorough they are being.

[Sharpal7]

Politics free Forum indeed.

Indeedy.

Unfortunately the whole aspect of the handling of the pandemic is political and political decisions are currently what our travel industry are waiting for.

We’ll say no more once the green light is given. July 10 is when the daft quarantine idea will be binned.

Anyhoo, I’m already booked for AGP for 4 August. I’m as certain as can be (barring any unforeseen new lockdown in Andalucía) that there will be no travel restrictions to affect me by then. Ergo I don’t quite see why the travel industry is making such a stooshie about any delay as they see it.

I guess it will be a whole new travelling/holiday experience for you Clive. I'd be interested to know how you find it, warts and all....if you are happy to share.

Mrs S and I will have a decision to make for our annual visit to Crete in September and we're not too comfortable with the thought of it at the moment.