Van.Bosch wrote: » Am I reading it right that travel as a % of cases was actually higher at the start of the graph? So why are they more concerned now?
Nijmegen wrote: » Well, that’s how it got in. Then we locked down and nobody was moving really and now that people are flying again, it’s ticking back up as a proportion. If we get the rate of transmission below 1 domestically, a quick way to explode it is to import cases. I guess it’s interesting that the members of the health team are talking about this repeatedly, in unison, and in alarmist tones.
DUBLIN: Ryanair has threatened to close two regional bases and axe up to 120 pilot jobs unless pilots in its home Irish market bypass their union and directly accept a pay cut, a memo said. Europe’s largest low-cost carrier is demanding pay cuts of up to 20 percent and changes to work practices across Europe. It has said it plans 3,000 job cuts and a reduction in staff unit costs, but faces union resistance in a number of markets. In the memo sent on Friday, Ryanair director of operations Neal McMahon told pilots the union council representing Irish pilots had walked away from talks on Wednesday, something the Forsa trade union denied. McMahon said a union request for an extension of a 30-day consultation on job cuts represented “stalling tactics.” Instead, the memo sent on the company’s internal messaging system, asked pilots to click a button to accept proposals including a 20 percent pay cut that would be reversed gradually within four years, a spreading of available work via job shares and unpaid leave, and “productivity improvements.” It said the number of job losses, and whether bases at Cork and Shannon airports remained open would depend on the number of acceptances. A Ryanair spokeswoman said she had “nothing further to add to that memo.” Trade union Forsa, in a memo to pilots on Friday, said Ryanair’s latest proposal was unacceptable as it would effectively leave pilots temporarily on zero-hour contracts and provided no guarantee job losses would be avoided. Forsa said it had requested third-party mediation, but had not received a reply. Ryanair, which is reopening much of its network on July 1, says it needs to cut staff costs to compete with rivals that have received state bailouts. Union representatives have pointed to management comments about expansion opportunities likely to be triggered by the retrenchment of rivals in the wake of COVID-19.
Jude13 wrote: » Emirates opening up from 07 July. I have a few pals flying with them back to Dublin on 01 July and 04 July so lets see if they actually get home. Once home I believe its 14 days quarantine.
Jude13 wrote: » Fingers crossed. We are thinking of jumping on a plane home on the 10th, however we have red tape this end to get approvals to fly/return.
Blut2 wrote: » We have a completely open land border to the UK, the country with Europe's worst infection rate currently. Tens of thousands of people cross back and forth every day, with no checks or tests of any sort. Given that corona was always going get back in, even if we kept or keep the airport completely closed. It not getting back in was never an option.
smurfjed wrote: » If Ryanair are restarting “much of its network” on July 01st, it is obviously expecting the traffic to be there, so why are these requested cuts necessary ?
smurfjed wrote: » I’m west of you, we can leave on repatriation flights but there is no way back, with the present daily rates there is no sign of international flights opening in the near future. Hope its a cool summer
goingnowhere wrote: » Great... force everyone to stand in a queue at the airport, deal face to face with someone to check the stuff in. Whole pile of staff to handle the bag, stand around waiting for the bag to show up at the far end. Nice and cold in the hold as well. A little bit of sensible boarding management would go far. Seems to favour Alitalia over the LCC's as FR and U2 will struggle with turnarounds and check in requirements.
Noxegon wrote: » I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more attention: Italy's aviation regulator has announced complete ban on use of overhead luggage lockers for all flightshttps://www.thelocal.it/20200626/italy-bans-all-hand-luggae-on-flights-for-safety-reasons
Irish Steve wrote: » While face covering is required, gloves are not being used, and are likely to be a bigger risk than not using them. Having said that, unless the aircraft are treated between each sector, there is a significant issue with the locking mechanism of overhead bins, unless people are going to carry sanitiser in their hand luggage to use after boarding and leaving the aircraft. The same can also be said for hold luggage, depending on how the handlers actually handle the individual bags, though most of the time, depending on the size, the handles are not the first choice for getting the bags in and out of the hold, most of the time it's a 2 handed operaration due to the restricted space in the hold, and the way that bags are stacked on the transport system. There's no easy answer to some of these issues, it will all be down to the problem of hand contact with any hard surface. Even handrails on air stairs are an issue, and operators like Ryanair won't happily be forced into using jetways, unless the airports waive the fee for using contact stands.
Kcormahs wrote: » TAP air Portugal be re-nationalisedhttps://www.google.pt/amp/s/tvi24.iol.pt/amp/economia/30-06-2020/tap-vai-ser-nacionalizada
TheDriver wrote: » Isn't there some amount of warnings suddenly coming on stream from all the experts re travel. Have they suddenly realised the number booked on flights is bigger than they expected?
Zonda999 wrote: » It has almost come out of nowhere versus last week. It all seems to be on the back of an apparent rise in confirmed cases here from those who have travelled from elsewhere. There is no shortage of discussion of this in the Covid forum but the consensus seems to be that the majority of cases have come from those who have travelled from countries not even in Europe.
