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Covid-19; Impact on the aviation industry

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,896 ✭✭✭PommieBast


    With increasing numbers of people being fully vaccinated, I suspect that these requirements will also be changed in the next few days.
    I think it may well be a case of the regulations being changed before they lose all respect and become widely flouted/bypassed. I don't see how inter-county travel can be allowed without defacto allowing NI-RoI travel.

    Ironically I am scheduled to get my jab on the 24th..


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 6,522 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Steve


    PommieBast wrote: »
    I think it may well be a case of the regulations being changed before they lose all respect and become widely flouted/bypassed. I don't see how inter-county travel can be allowed without defacto allowing NI-RoI travel.

    Ironically I am scheduled to get my jab on the 24th..

    Again, as I understand it, NI-ROI travel is now permitted, albeit not advised at the moment.

    I'm in the happy position of being fully vaccinated and beyond the waiting period, and yes, it was very nice to have a "normal" day visiting my son and his family that we've not seen for 7 months, and we had (outdoor) food as well, also very normal, made a very nice change for all of us.

    The whole credibility aspect of Government performance is a subject that needs to be looked at in great detail once Covid is no longer an issue, I don't think they've done a particularly good job of making it up as they went along, and the latest twist of the hacking of the HSE just makes it worse, and for that monumental faux pas, some serious heads should roll, but that's unlikely to happen, more's the pity.

    Given the EU is about to roll out this green passport scheme, to expect people to isolate or quarantine if they've been fully vaccinated and been in a place where they should not have been at significant risk is just another example of the absurd manner that this whole scenario is being cobbled together from day to day.

    Shore, if it was easy, everybody would be doin it.😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,393 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    and the latest twist of the hacking of the HSE just makes it worse, and for that monumental faux pas, some serious heads should roll, but that's unlikely to happen, more's the pity.

    The equivalent of newspaper comments demanding that pilots be sacked any time there is an incident :rolleyes:

    Public sector IT already has very unattractive T&Cs for the industry and can't fill anything other than entry level posts. The post of director of the National Cyber Security Centre is being offered at €89k FFS - no surprise it's been vacant for a year.

    How about we wait for the investigation?

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    IT salaries in public sector are derisory. They can't attract or retain anyone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,896 ✭✭✭PommieBast


    Public sector IT already has very unattractive T&Cs for the industry and can't fill anything other than entry level posts. The post of director of the National Cyber Security Centre is being offered at €89k FFS - no surprise it's been vacant for a year.
    Probably one for the Coding Horror thread.. :D


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  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 6,522 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Steve


    The equivalent of newspaper comments demanding that pilots be sacked any time there is an incident :rolleyes:

    Public sector IT already has very unattractive T&Cs for the industry and can't fill anything other than entry level posts. The post of director of the National Cyber Security Centre is being offered at €89k FFS - no surprise it's been vacant for a year.

    How about we wait for the investigation?

    The problem is not with the people at the sharp end driving the keyboards, it's way higher than that, where people are making decisions like keeping WinXP and other out of date and insecure operating systems in service beyond their end of support dates. There are also a number of ministers of various governments that should be made to answer for their failures to properly deal with many of the issues around the HSE, and other state services, significant decisions about streamlining and merging many out of date and unsuitable IT systems should have been made a long time ago, but they were not willing to deal with the fallout that would have followed from both internal and external vested interest groups that are not willing to see real change happen.

    And in passing, my thoughts are not "The equivalent of newspaper comments demanding that pilots be sacked any time there is an incident", I spent my entire working life working with computers and systems, at every level, from single user PC tyoe systems up to and including multi national company administrative computer networks, so I have more than a passing knowledge of the unspoken background issues behind this sort of incident, and the complexities of fixing them.

    Shore, if it was easy, everybody would be doin it.😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭NSAman


    The post of director of the National Cyber Security Centre is being offered at €89k FFS - no surprise it's been vacant for a year.
    ?

    What?

    Has no ministers family member even done a FETEC level one course on websites?

    I am shocked!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭DubDani


    Where are you getting your information from?

    The last time I looked, (like now to be sure) there was NO test requirement for travel from NI to UK, and no test requirement from ROI to UK. There is a PCR test requirement within 72 hours of travel before returning to ROI from UK, but there is no test requirement from UK to NI. THere is still a requirement that travel is for essential purposes only until May 24th from NI, and there is still a restriction on travel to from ROI at present, with no definite end date.

    There is a recommendation, but not mandatory, to get a test before UK departure and at 2 and 8 days after arrival in NI from UK after May 24, but it can be the cheap test, it does not have to be PCR test, which is way more expensive. Self isolation for up to 10 days is also recommened.

    With increasing numbers of people being fully vaccinated, I suspect that these requirements will also be changed in the next few days.

    BBC for one have been reporting it, as have many other outlets in the North.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-57119439

    New guidance states those exempt from self-isolation must take Covid-19 tests before departure and on later dates.

    The Northern Ireland Tourism Alliance described this as "unmanageable".

    Previously, Stormont ministers had only advised that people could travel from Northern Ireland to the CTA for essential reasons.

    On Thursday, the executive announced relaxations to this rule, but introduced certain requirements for travellers arriving into Northern Ireland.

    The new guidance sets out that anyone exempt from self-isolation will be asked to take lateral flow tests for Covid-19 pre-departure, as well as on days two and eight post-arrival into Northern Ireland.

    All other visitors will be required to self-isolate on arrival for 10 days.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 6,522 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Steve


    DubDani wrote: »
    BBC for one have been reporting it, as have many other outlets in the North.

    It seems that there is a considerable level of confusion about the actual plan at the moment, in as much as the official NI web site is still not giving clarity of information about the plan. The only clarity is the requirement for a pre travel test, the cheaper lateral flow, with a repeat at 2 days and 8 days after arrival, and it seems that this will only be applicable to visiting family and friends, so no holidays as such, even if there are places open to stay at. Not sure how this will be interpreted for things like owner occupied caravans etc.

    I am still expecting that there will be changes to even this plan before the 24th, but it's all still a complete mess, and the absence of an island wide strategy is only adding to the problem for all concerned.

    Shore, if it was easy, everybody would be doin it.😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,862 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    The problem is not with the people at the sharp end driving the keyboards, it's way higher than that, where people are making decisions like keeping WinXP and other out of date and insecure operating systems in service beyond their end of support dates. There are also a number of ministers of various governments that should be made to answer for their failures to properly deal with many of the issues around the HSE, and other state services, significant decisions about streamlining and merging many out of date and unsuitable IT systems should have been made a long time ago, but they were not willing to deal with the fallout that would have followed from both internal and external vested interest groups that are not willing to see real change happen.

    And in passing, my thoughts are not "The equivalent of newspaper comments demanding that pilots be sacked any time there is an incident", I spent my entire working life working with computers and systems, at every level, from single user PC tyoe systems up to and including multi national company administrative computer networks, so I have more than a passing knowledge of the unspoken background issues behind this sort of incident, and the complexities of fixing them.

    I have to say I find this comment strange, particularly on an aviation forum. Given the cost of machinery and hardware as well as certification in aviation, I can be absolutely sure there are computers being used in workshops and maintenance hangars running XP. Should airlines be scrapping 10 year old planes because their avionics interface with out of date operating systems? Of course not and the same is true of medical systems.

    If anything, those interested in the aviation industry should be stepping up and encouraging cyber security professionals to adopt it's accident and disaster reporting culture. This is nothing to do with covid and aviation though so I'll leave it at that.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,614 ✭✭✭Noxegon


    I develop Superior Solitaire when I'm not procrastinating on boards.ie.



  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 23,433 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    I have to say I find this comment strange, particularly on an aviation forum. Given the cost of machinery and hardware as well as certification in aviation, I can be absolutely sure there are computers being used in workshops and maintenance hangars running XP. Should airlines be scrapping 10 year old planes because their avionics interface with out of date operating systems? Of course not and the same is true of medical systems.

    It all comes down to if those XP systems are air gapped or not.

    If they are networked, then you are screwed. I really, really hope that those XP systems in hangars aren't networked or it could be very dangerous.

    There are of course valid reasons to run old software, but if you do, you really need to lock it down and isolate it.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 6,522 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Steve


    bk wrote: »
    It all comes down to if those XP systems are air gapped or not.

    If they are networked, then you are screwed. I really, really hope that those XP systems in hangars aren't networked or it could be very dangerous.

    There are of course valid reasons to run old software, but if you do, you really need to lock it down and isolate it.

    Few years ago now, a friend of mine was the local support engineer for a French biz jet, and it had a range of things that needed updates on a regular basis, and to do that, there was a toughbook laptop that came with the aircraft, the only problem being that it was made very clear that it was NEVER to go near an internet connection, despite having all the relevant hardware to be able to do so, as it was a "virgin" unpatched XP machine, which meant that if we got some sort of error message from the PC or the aircraft, it had to be saved on the machine, then transferred to a memory stick, so that the error message could then be taken to a machine with internet connection to connect to the manufacturers web site to find out what the message meant. To make it worse, the aircraft had on board Sat connect WiFi, and the aircraft was able to connect itself, so we had to be paranoid to make sure that the toughbook didn't connect via the sat system on the aircraft, if it had done so, it would have been downloading updates for about a week!

    If EVERYONE involved knows exactly what the rules are, it can be made to work, but too many commercial organisations made bad decisions about keeping end of life operating systems in service beyond cut off, and then wondered why they had so many problems, and in some cases, the people using the machines neither knew or cared what operating system it used, they just used the computer for whatever tasks they had to do, and in some cases, for other things not work related, and that's all too often where the problems come from. If the network security is not set up to monitor risky web site address ranges, then anything can and does happen, as has been seen in recent weeks both here and in the USA with their pipeline shutdown.

    Part of the problem is a complete lack of international legislation with teeth that can enable the ransomware originators to be tracked, and dealt with, in some cases, national governments are happy to see other countries caused problems, as long as they can't be blamed, so it's a much bigger issue than just stopping the rot in the first case.

    Shore, if it was easy, everybody would be doin it.😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,351 ✭✭✭basill


    Allegedly they are based in Russia. Chaos and misinformation is in their national interests so I wouldn't have thought that signing them up to an international treaty would do much other than illicit a few token press releases that they are doing all they can etc etc.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 23,433 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    If EVERYONE involved knows exactly what the rules are, it can be made to work, but too many commercial organisations made bad decisions about keeping end of life operating systems in service beyond cut off, and then wondered why they had so many problems, and in some cases, the people using the machines neither knew or cared what operating system it used, they just used the computer for whatever tasks they had to do, and in some cases, for other things not work related, and that's all too often where the problems come from. If the network security is not set up to monitor risky web site address ranges, then anything can and does happen, as has been seen in recent weeks both here and in the USA with their pipeline shutdown.

    This is the biggest problem with old XP systems and using it to run specialist tools, software, etc. To non technical users, it looks like a general purpose PC, hey, it is running windows after all, it has Internet Explorer and office and outlook, why not use it to surf the web and complete that spreadsheet.

    But non of these are patched and thus are highly vulnerable.

    As you say, it isn't unusual to have dedicated machines for running specific tasks. It also isn't unusual for IT folks to physically lock down such machines, remove wifi, bluetooth and networking cards from them. Epoxy USB ports, epoxy the case shut, etc. Remove all unnecessary software, just have the software and interface required to run the specialist tool.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,955 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Most modern websites look awful in the browsers for XP (and even worse the older you go - on 98, unless you have the last version of Opera for 98, you don't have TLS 1.2 so can't get on any decent website) - but on 7, there's still good browsers.

    Also, if you point an unpatched Win7 machine at Windows Update now, it almost certainly won't work. You need to manually install a pile of updates first! There could easily be people who'd paid for the extra years of support but have machines that are broken and not pulling updates.


  • Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Covid-19; Impact on the aviation industry for me: first flight on a Lufthansa CRJ900. Up until now the smallest plane they'd use on this route was an Airbus 319.
    I guess they are using the A320s on routes that would have been served by A330s in the past.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,977 ✭✭✭Van.Bosch


    Covid-19; Impact on the aviation industry for me: first flight on a Lufthansa CRJ900. Up until now the smallest plane they'd use on this route was an Airbus 319.
    I guess they are using the A320s on routes that would have been served by A330s in the past.

    3 flights a day some days this week, granted all smaller aircraft but surprised at that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 481 ✭✭mr.anonymous




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭Mebuntu


    If anyone missed the the Joint Commitee meeting with Willie Walsh on Wednesday it can be watched back at the link below.

    Be warned you will need your blood pressure tablets to hand.

    It starts around the 13 minute mark.

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachtas-tv/video-archive/committees/4228


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  • Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Word of warning:
    Do not expect a valid HSE PCR negative test confirmation by SMS to be sufficient to allow travel with some airlines. If you think the PCR test will provide a hyperlink to a certificate you can print out you will be disappointed. It will include a referral ID which is of little use to you at time of departure or arrival.
    Despite the Agent having phoned the HSE to confirm the validity of the PCR test based on the Referral ID contained in the SMS the Check-in agent would still not allow me to fly and would not issue to me a boarding pass.
    The Check-in agent feared that Border Control in Germany would fine the Carrier.
    On account of being hacked the HSE are in disarray, can neither accept nor process notification results by e-mail and heir promise of following up can take anything up to 24hours if at all.
    Randox on site at Dublin airport can issue antigen results in 1 hour at a cost of 49 euro which I consider very expensive for an antigen test but a small expense in comparison to the cost and frustration of having to miss a flight especially as there are so few flights scheduled these days.
    Take care out there and happy flying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,977 ✭✭✭Van.Bosch


    Word of warning:
    Do not expect a valid HSE PCR negative test confirmation by SMS to be sufficient to allow travel with some airlines. If you think the PCR test will provide a hyperlink to a certificate you can print out you will be disappointed. It will include a referral ID which is of little use to you at time of departure or arrival.
    Despite the Agent having phoned the HSE to confirm the validity of the PCR test based on the Referral ID contained in the SMS the Check-in agent would still not allow me to fly and would not issue to me a boarding pass.
    The Check-in agent feared that Border Control in Germany would fine the Carrier.
    On account of being hacked the HSE are in disarray, can neither accept nor process notification results by e-mail and heir promise of following up can take anything up to 24hours if at all.
    Randox on site at Dublin airport can issue antigen results in 1 hour at a cost of 49 euro which I consider very expensive for an antigen test but a small expense in comparison to the cost and frustration of having to miss a flight especially as there are so few flights scheduled these days.
    Take care out there and happy flying.

    HSE tests aren’t for travel, you need a private test


  • Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Van.Bosch wrote: »
    HSE tests aren’t for travel, you need a private test
    Your carrier won't tell you that your HSE negative PCR test is not the one you need.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,044 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    Your carrier won't tell you that your HSE negative PCR test is not the one you need.

    Isn't it up to the individual to ensure that any test you get is sufficient for the airline or destination?

    I've had 3 HSE test so far, all mandated by my GP. I didn't think you could book one for personal reasons.


  • Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tenger wrote: »
    Isn't it up to the individual to ensure that any test you get is sufficient for the airline or destination?

    I've had 3 HSE test so far, all mandated by my GP. I didn't think you could book one for personal reasons.

    Tests are available at their drive thrus without appointment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭goingnowhere


    You need a certified PCR test, i.e. a sheet of paper in English or other accepted language

    This should have your details, DOB, passport number optional but recommended
    The date and time of sample (most counties have a 48/72 hour requirement)
    The test used (i.e. the parama companies detail of the assay used)
    It must clearly state it is a RT-PCR test
    The lab which processed the test
    The result

    A 'not detected' SMS is worthless and easily faked


  • Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You need a certified PCR test, i.e. a sheet of paper in English or other accepted language

    This should have your details, DOB, passport number optional but recommended
    The date and time of sample (most counties have a 48/72 hour requirement)
    The test used (i.e. the parama companies detail of the assay used)
    It must clearly state it is a RT-PCR test
    The lab which processed the test
    The result

    A 'not detected' SMS is worthless and easily faked
    Worthless where? Rules vary across the globe. Some Governments are stricter than others. There is ample scope for confusion so the travelling public should beware.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 563 ✭✭✭feelings


    Some further news expected from EI today or tomorrow, if rumours are to be believed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,351 ✭✭✭basill


    feelings wrote: »
    Some further news expected from EI today or tomorrow, if rumours are to be believed.


    North American west coast city noted for gambling and late nights?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭Lustrum


    basill wrote: »
    North American west coast city noted for gambling and late nights?

    They're launching direct to Reno, just to annoy some people on boards ðŸ˜


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭lintdrummer


    basill wrote: »
    North American west coast city noted for gambling and late nights?

    In all seriousness, not that I think it's going to be announced tomorrow, but I have it on good authority that it is being considered quite seriously at senior levels.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,955 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Cards would have been issued if it was the routes or EI threads where the ban exists. Don't even go there unless there's a press release on the website


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭Duff


    Hey guys,

    Is there any indication as to how things will be in the US come September with regards to travel from here? I've a trip to New York in September and I'm not sure if I should try and re0arrange it for early next year and pay the difference. I know it's hard to predict at the best of times but I'm hopeful we'll be on the green list by then as we should have the vast majority vaccinated here.

    Cheers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,507 ✭✭✭Jack1985


    Duff wrote: »
    Hey guys,

    Is there any indication as to how things will be in the US come September with regards to travel from here? I've a trip to New York in September and I'm not sure if I should try and re0arrange it for early next year and pay the difference. I know it's hard to predict at the best of times but I'm hopeful we'll be on the green list by then as we should have the vast majority vaccinated here.

    Cheers.

    The Irish Gov are going to permit travel from Ireland to the EU, UK and US under similar conditions as the EU Covid Travel Certificate from 19th of July.

    For Irish Citizens, to enter the US requires the US to relax border restrictions which should happen at some point over the Summer especially as Europe and the UK will have broadly similar levels of inoculation.

    I’d be looking forward to your US Trip in September!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭Duff


    Jack1985 wrote: »
    The Irish Gov are going to permit travel from Ireland to the EU, UK and US under similar conditions as the EU Covid Travel Certificate from 19th of July.

    For Irish Citizens, to enter the US requires the US to relax border restrictions which should happen at some point over the Summer especially as Europe and the UK will have broadly similar levels of inoculation.

    I’d be looking forward to your US Trip in September!

    That's great to hear! Fingers crossed now. Thank you for the info.


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  • Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jack1985 wrote: »
    The Irish Gov are going to permit travel from Ireland to the EU, UK and US under similar conditions as the EU Covid Travel Certificate from 19th of July.

    For Irish Citizens, to enter the US requires the US to relax border restrictions which should happen at some point over the Summer especially as Europe and the UK will have broadly similar levels of inoculation.

    I’d be looking forward to your US Trip in September!
    Germany is at about 30 cases per 100000 over a 7 day period. There is no justification to limit travel to Germany for another 7 or 8 weeks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 ✭✭✭HTCOne


    I wonder if we’ll see a ramp up in services by the US carriers from July 19 now. We’ve been told the big US 3 are chomping at the bit to get back in. Due to the CARES Act they have a far higher % of aircraft and staff still operating than their European counterparts so can react more quickly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,970 ✭✭✭Jacovs


    The Aviation LEEF Sub Group, chaired by TD Hildegard Naughton, issued a report recently and wrote a letter to Michael Martin about it. For what its worth.
    Not sure how to upload/post pdf's, im sure others on here have seen it too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,219 ✭✭✭Blut2


    HTCOne wrote: »
    I wonder if we’ll see a ramp up in services by the US carriers from July 19 now. We’ve been told the big US 3 are chomping at the bit to get back in. Due to the CARES Act they have a far higher % of aircraft and staff still operating than their European counterparts so can react more quickly.

    We'll hopefully see them back much sooner than that. Americans are free to travel here now as things stand if they're vaccinated, which 62% of the adult population are (as of today). The bigger demand issue is Europeans still can't fly to America because of their entry ban on us.

    Thats supposedly going to be rescinded for the UK & Ireland on June 7th according to rumours now though:

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/15090547/airlines-preparing-restart-transatlantic-flights-from-june-7/amp/

    (The Sun I know...but the story only broke a few hours ago, I've not seen it elsewhere yet).

    If thats the case I'd imagine we'll see a gradual ramping up of TATL traffic from mid-June on-wards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭WishUWereHere


    Jack1985 wrote: »
    The Irish Gov are going to permit travel from Ireland to the EU, UK and US under similar conditions as the EU Covid Travel Certificate from 19th of July.

    For Irish Citizens, to enter the US requires the US to relax border restrictions which should happen at some point over the Summer especially as Europe and the UK will have broadly similar levels of inoculation.

    I’d be looking forward to your US Trip in September!


    Any reason why Canada isn't included?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭lintdrummer


    Any reason why Canada isn't included?

    Didn't come out of the bingo drum when they were picking the countries.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭Doylers


    Any reason why Canada isn't included?

    Presumably they might want something reciprocal ? Canada has been very quiet on plans with everyone needing to quarantine. Dare I saw they are even further behind Ireland in this respect.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,044 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    Any reason why Canada isn't included?
    As above. Canada may not be eager to open up just yet.

    I had read a report (can't recall where, may have been the Times) over the weekend that the US may introduce a similar system to the green cert which would be compatible with the EU to allow reciprocal travel.


    Read an article today (The Spectator in the UK) that Israel have scraped their own green cert.
    It was being mostly ignored as people were focusing on the massive drop in cases rather than adhering to the rules. (0.02% positivity amongst 21,000 tests in the last week)


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,044 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    Delta announce strong rebound in their business;


    Delta: "Domestic leisure [travel] will be 100% restored by June, with ... bookings ahead of 2019 levels and yields essentially recovered," - Glen Hauenstein (President, Delta Air Lines)

    Source: https://j.mp/3wMu06p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 ✭✭✭HTCOne


    Good. Probably the best run airline in the world. Their profit sharing scheme with employees should be a template for most other carriers. The fact they still do all their maintenance in-house, including total engine overhaul also bucks the trend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,522 ✭✭✭✭cson


    TSA screenings hit ~1.9m/day over the holiday weekend, for reference 2019 was ~2.5m/day.

    Bear in mind that is with negligible international travel.

    When it comes back in Ireland/EU, I expect it to come back in a similarly big way to what's happening here in the US.

    There are a lot of people who've been relatively unaffected financially by the pandemic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭theguzman


    cson wrote: »
    TSA screenings hit ~1.9m/day over the holiday weekend, for reference 2019 was ~2.5m/day.

    Bear in mind that is with negligible international travel.

    When it comes back in Ireland/EU, I expect it to come back in a similarly big way to what's happening here in the US.

    There are a lot of people who've been relatively unaffected financially by the pandemic.

    For alot of people the pandemic has benefited them massively, I know people who made eye watering fortunes out of Amazon, Tesla, Bitcoins and even Gamestop recently. Most people I spoke to who were on the PUP said they were better off on it and happier too. Everyone had a common denominator, I can't wait to go on holidays and I have the money saved up already type of answer.

    I myself didn't let covid keep me out of the Sky with two trips to South America for a combined 3 months (Dodging lockdown), one to the USA, Eastern Europe, Spain and the Mid-East since March 2020. Conditions at home actually encouraged me to travel more and I travelled more in Covid times than all of 2019.

    Since the outbreak of Covid I travelled to: UK, USA, Qatar, Spain, Serbia, Gibraltar, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Turkey.

    I am planning a tour of Scotland by car maybe in July now, then a flight to Greece and rent a car for a balkans tour of Greece, North Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo and maybe Bosnia too across 2-3 weeks in late August early Sept, restrictions permitting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,219 ✭✭✭Blut2


    HTCOne wrote: »
    Good. Probably the best run airline in the world. Their profit sharing scheme with employees should be a template for most other carriers. The fact they still do all their maintenance in-house, including total engine overhaul also bucks the trend.

    Very much agreed. I've got a couple of friends working with them who mostly say good things. And as a customer I have to say they're by far the best of the US big 3 to fly with in my experience too. They're always incredibly easy to deal with for any changing to bookings etc, just great customer service. And well run operations. ATL is also very easy to connect through.

    We just need their JFK and ATL to DUB routes to restart now...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,522 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Fwiw DL have had fairly significant trouble spinning up capacity (crew out of hours etc) over peak travel periods - last few holidays over here have seen them have substantial IRROPs. They did seem to get through the latest one ok though, so might be behind them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,219 ✭✭✭Blut2


    Forbes now has an article reinforcing the discussion from that Sun link I posted a few days ago:
    There are reports that a bilateral agreement has been worked out between the U.S. and the U.K. to reopen travel between the two countries.

    If confirmed, this news would allow British people entry to the U.S. with just a negative Covid-19 test result, taken no more than 72 hours before travel. For entry into the U.K. travelers would need the same and also to take a test within two days of arriving into the country–the same as other current green list countries.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2021/06/01/usuk-travel-reports-of-travel-bubbles-opening-soon/?sh=1d0c9762edc1

    The key dates to watch seem to be the UK's next review of their green list on June 7th, and/or the G7 summit where Biden is in the UK himself - Jun 11th-13th.

    Hopefully we're included with the UK.


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