Corona virus and its effects on GLA

[Bearsden]

https://www.heraldscotland.com/business ... nged-good/

[Clive]

https://www.heraldscotland.com/business ... nged-good/

Couldn’t read the article but yes, the business air market will have changed for good. No longer will employees have to fly down to London, for example, for a 90 minute meeting now that they have been doing their meetings remotely. Should result in quite a lot less domestic air travel once we are back to the new normal.

[Clive]

Boris talking about people in England potentially being able to take foreign holidays from 17 May.

Can only assume that Scotland will allow something similar if the virus control efforts keep going in the right direction.

For me there is also the prospect of live gigs from 21June and of course drinks in bars long before that.

Light at the end of the tunnel

[GKirk]

Boris talking about people in England potentially being able to take foreign holidays from 17 May.

Can only assume that Scotland will allow something similar if the virus control efforts keep going in the right direction.

I hope you're right, but the current rhetoric from the Scottish Gov seems to be suggesting that won't be the case. If "managed isolation" continues in the current form, along with the huge loop holes, then many, many people will simply travel via England and Ireland and I fear all the airlines will simply move their current operations away from GLA (and Scotland as a whole). Hopefully there's some kind of sensible plan.

Aye,unless the SG follow suit with these dates, you'll see a mass movement of flights from GLA, and EDI to NCL and MAN.

[Clive]

Boris talking about people in England potentially being able to take foreign holidays from 17 May.

Can only assume that Scotland will allow something similar if the virus control efforts keep going in the right direction.

I hope you're right, but the current rhetoric from the Scottish Gov seems to be suggesting that won't be the case. If "managed isolation" continues in the current form, along with the huge loop holes, then many, many people will simply travel via England and Ireland and I fear all the airlines will simply move their current operations away from GLA (and Scotland as a whole). Hopefully there's some kind of sensible plan.

Don’t know where you get that from. The Scottish Government will set out their plan tomorrow for easing out of Covid restrictions between now and the summer.

[GKirk]

TBF Clive, NS has consistently said summer holidays abroad are very unlikely from Scotland this year. People will just drive/take the train down to NCL/MAN/LPL

[Clive]

What GKirk says. Nicola Sturgeon literally said: "...for the summer, while it is still highly unlikely that overseas holidays will be possible or advisable, staycations might be."

We’d need the destination to be accepting UK visitors but you are both right that unless we close our border we can’t stop Scots holidaying from English airports and risking bringing back the virus and forcing us back into lockdown which no one wants.

We’ll see what the Scot Govts latest plan is tomorrow for the gradual easing of lockdown over the next few months. And whatever it is it will be heavily caveated in the state of the pandemic. That’s why ScotGov wouldn’t recommend booking too soon.

You guys may have misunderstood if you thought we were never coming out of lockdown. The plan has always been to gradually open everything as soon as it is safe and responsible to do so.

[big ears]

Jet2 offering us a 10% discount for a booking....

[will1983]

LS & EZY both delaying restart until May.

[Clive]

Reaction from Derek Provan on today's announcement on the Scottish Government's "plan."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-56154389

Derek Provan, the chief executive of AGS Airports, the company which owns Aberdeen International, Glasgow and Southampton airports, takes a swipe at Nicola Sturgeon's route map.

He compares her announcement to the one made on Monday by Boris Johnson for England and says while the PM provided a "clear framework for the safe restart of international aviation", the first minister had provided "a clear message the aviation industry is not a priority for the Scottish government".

He said that his industry was handed no plan or framework against which they can start plotting any form of recovery.

This sends a very worrying signal to our airports, our airlines and the thousands of staff our sector supports. We find ourselves in a position where airports and airlines in England can start planning to safely reopen in time for the summer, yet in Scotland we are left with more questions than answers. It is now two weeks since the Scottish government committed to setting up an aviation working group and it has still to meet. This lack of meaningful engagement cannot continue.

Provan is correct about one thing. The aviation industry is not a priority for the Scottish government. Public health, limiting the pandemic and saving lives is. Opening up all different sectors of the economy will follow as soon as it’s safe to do so.

If Provan wants a reckless Tory government which has presided over the worst per capita death rate in the developed world then he knows where he can find one.