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Re: Impact of coronavirus on aviation industry.

#761 Post by Woody » Wed Jul 13, 2022 3:51 pm

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#762 Post by PHXPhlyer » Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:39 pm

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Thu Jun 30, 2022 7:35 am
Heathrow telling airlines to cancel flights as they can’t cope with the pax numbers :-o

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... urope.html
Delta Flies An A330 Just For Bags

1,000 bags. Zero passengers. Delta flight from Heathrow latest sign of air travel hell


https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/14/business ... index.html

Delta Air Lines took what it called a “creative” step to solve a massive baggage problem for passengers flying through troubled Heathrow Airport. Others might call the move extreme: the airline flew a plane from London to its hub in Detroit packed with 1,000 lost bags and zero passengers.

A staffing shortage that has caused a service meltdown at Heathrow in recent weeks has now been dubbed “airmageddon.” Airport authorities have responded to the canceled flights and massive lost baggage complaints by telling airlines they must cap the number of passengers at one of the world’s busiest airports to 100,000 a day.

So Delta figured out a way to get the lost bags out of the airport, even though it couldn’t take more passengers.

“Delta teams worked a creative solution to move delayed checked bags from London-Heathrow on July 11 after a regularly scheduled flight had to be canceled given airport passenger volume restrictions at Heathrow,” said a statement from the airline. “Delta flight 9888 from Heathrow to Delta’s Detroit hub flew 1,000 bags back to the United States, where teams then forwarded the bags on to our customers.”

The passenger-free flight was first reported by the New York Times.

Delta and other US airlines have been hit with their own staffing shortages and service problems so far this summer travel season, causing nearly 30,000 flights to, from or within the United States to be canceled, according to tracking service FlightAware. The disruptions have been particularly bad over holiday weekends such as Memorial Day, the Father’s Day/Juneteenth weekend and the July 4th holiday.

Delta (DAL) reported earnings Wednesday that were sharply lower than forecast due in part to higher fuel costs but also greatly attributed to the cost of dealing with those service problems.

Passengers queue inside the departures terminal of Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport in London, Britain, June 27, 2022.
Traveling reaches peak suck just as everyone is trying to get out of town
Although Delta did not break out the specific costs of the service issues, it did say it will pay an extra $200 million this year in overtime and premium pay to reduce the number of flight cancellations. And that doesn’t count other costs associated with service disruptions — such as flying jets full of bags overseas without any paying customers.

“I want to thank our customers for their patience and understanding as we restore the reliability that you’ve come to expect from Delta,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian said during a call with investors Wednesday.

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Re: Impact of coronavirus on aviation industry.

#763 Post by Woody » Thu Aug 11, 2022 3:11 pm

Delta Flies An A330 Just For Bags

1,000 bags. Zero passengers. Delta flight from Heathrow latest sign of air travel hell
Definitely not the first time this has happened, BA once flew a 747 of rush baggage to Lagos and I think there’s been others.
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#764 Post by Woody » Sun Aug 21, 2022 8:10 am

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#765 Post by G-CPTN » Sun Aug 21, 2022 8:19 am

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I didn’t write this :D
But do you agree?

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#766 Post by Woody » Sun Aug 21, 2022 8:52 am

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#767 Post by Woody » Tue Aug 23, 2022 1:38 pm

Well at least it’s not BA this time :-o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62643664
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#768 Post by PHXPhlyer » Tue Aug 23, 2022 3:22 pm

Staff at Gatwick's air traffic control tower are employed by a company called Air Navigation Solutions (ANS), rather than by Gatwick Airport itself. ANS have been approached for a comment.

Seems Air Navigation Solutions doesn't have any. :-o :-? :))

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#769 Post by Woody » Fri Sep 16, 2022 8:38 am

Things are definitely returning to normal, the soap dodging surrender monkeys are on strike

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#770 Post by Woody » Mon Mar 27, 2023 5:03 pm

Probably the wrong place for this, but some members might be interested.

https://ukaviation.news/dan-air-name-to ... -30-years/
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Re: Impact of coronavirus on aviation industry.

#771 Post by Wodrick » Mon Mar 27, 2023 6:35 pm

Won't be the same

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#772 Post by Boac » Mon Mar 27, 2023 7:13 pm

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be? :))

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#773 Post by barkingmad » Sat Apr 15, 2023 4:11 pm

Better start updating those aviation professionals' CVs as there may not be much call for such services if this report is true;

"All UK Airports must close within the next 10 years, beef and lamb will be banned, and construction of new buildings will cease in the name of “Climate Change” according to Government Report.

A report produced by Oxford University and Imperial College London for the UK Government reveals that all airports will be ordered to close, eating beef and lamb will be made illegal, and construction of new buildings will not be permitted in order to meet the legal commitment of zero emissions by 2050.
The report states that all airports must close between 2020 and 2029 excluding Heathrow, Glasgow and Belfast airports, which can only stay open on the condition that transfers to and from the airport are done via rail.
All remaining airports must then close between 2030 and 2049 as to meet the legal commitment of zero emissions by 2050 every citizen of the United Kingdom must “stop using aeroplanes” for a significant period of time.
In addition, the report states that to obey the law of the Climate Change Act the public will be required to stop doing anything that causes emissions regardless of its energy source. According to the report this will require the public to never eat beef or lamb ever again.
To do this national consumption of beef and lamb will drop by 50% between 2020 and 2029. Then between 2030 and 2049 beef and lamb will be “phased out”.
The report also confirms that construction of new building must cease by 2050 –
The underlying point is that any asset which uses carbon will have essentially zero value in 2050. This in turn may encourage greater use in the run up to 2050 – for example, putting up new buildings at a much faster rate for the next 30 years, knowing that construction must then halt.

The report was released in November 2019 and was authored by ‘UK Fires’, a collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Nottingham, Bath and Imperial College London – the home of Professor Neil Ferguson.
Entitled ‘Absolute Zero’, the report is a research collaboration in which the authors reveal what the UK must do to meet it’s legal requirement to reach net zero emissions by 2050, and it makes for harrowing reading.
However, the timeline of events may speed up significantly because the Government enshrined a new target in law in April 2021 to slash emissions by 78% by the year 2035.

Is it just a coincidence that four months after the release of the report, the UK Government brought in the coronavirus act and implemented a national lockdown which has decimated the travel industry? A quick read through the report certainly suggests the real reason for lockdown may have been so that the Government can meet its legal commitment to reduce emissions.
They will get the support just as they got the support for implementing ridiculous, draconian laws under the guise of stopping the spread of Covid-19. Laws which have decimated small business, taken away our freedoms, and created what will be the greatest health crisis to have ever been due to turning the NHS into the National Covid Service and then the National Vaccination Service."

https://www.ukfires.org/wp-content/uplo ... online.pdf

Read, then get that whisky bottle and the revolver and do the decent thing, or get angry and get out there to "Just Say NO!".

Shares in the pitchfork industry and interest in my much-delayed 'Blade" are bound to rise when this becomes general knowledge ! ! !

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Re: Impact of coronavirus on aviation industry.

#774 Post by barkingmad » Tue May 09, 2023 9:42 am

More Bad News from the funeral parlour;

"Here is what I concluded from the study: In 2019 there were 55 published pilot deaths that occurred before the mandatory retirement age of 65. In 2020 there were 52. In 2021 there were 75. In the first quarter of 2022 there were 20. None of these early deaths were from reported accidents, plane crashes or shootings. In many of these obituaries of young pilots, the words “unexpected” or “sudden” were prevalent. Based on this raw data, the incidence of pilots dying before retirement age has increased by about 40% beginning in January of 2021. This is consistent with recent actuarial analyses from insurance companies showing a 40% increase in deaths of people who were still working when they died".
From; "An objective analysis of commercial airline pilot deaths as reported in the Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) magazine since 2019".
Author; Dr. Kevin Stillwagon is a retired chiropractor, airline captain, inventor, author and lecturer. He lives in Florida, USA. You can follow Dr. Stillwagon by subscribing to his Substack ‘The Silent Killers’... or on his Rumble channel.

The article from which this was taken is here;

https://expose-news.com/2023/05/07/incr ... ring-2021/

If anyone in an aviation-orientated forum is actually interested and equally importantly whether the post remains and is neither censored nor shunted elsewhere... :-? :-w

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Re: Impact of coronavirus on aviation industry.

#775 Post by Woody » Thu May 25, 2023 6:41 pm

Before anyone starts I wasn’t at Perry Oaks today, but I’m in tomorrow, no doubt trying to get everything moving again :((

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65713903

The IT is s**t, but we’ve got lovely new uniforms =))
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#776 Post by barkingmad » Thu May 25, 2023 8:13 pm

The OP of this thread said:---"With the aviation industry having geared up to support this growth, the coronavirus must be giving aviation marketing executives many sleepless nights. Even if the virus turns out to be a damp squib, it will have given tremendous impetus to video conferencing instead of flying. If not then the aviation industry will take a tremendous knock. Suspect a massive wind-back of demand will cause the Boeing 777-9X to follow the Airbus A380. Any thoughts out there".

I'm still trying to make the link between the long history of IT disasters in the "World's Favourite" airline and the thread title... :-w

Some folks around here get heavily censured for posting in the wrong thread. :((

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#777 Post by barkingmad » Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:01 am

Re my post #773, the “Long Plague” continues to affect the industry back at the beginning of the career path for many;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66018076

Maybe time for a proper aptitude, selection and training system like what we had in the old days?

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Re: Impact of coronavirus on aviation industry.

#778 Post by Woody » Mon Jul 10, 2023 11:07 am

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66153416

All the staff are having reactions to their vaccinations :ymdevil:
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