Solobally8 wrote: » No need to insult people with special needs. The people who run our country are just elitist a**holes who don’t care about anything but their fat wage packet and pension.
1 July The EU Digital COVID Certificate enters into application throughout the EU. 1 July - 12 August Phase-in period: if a Member State is not yet ready to issue the new certificate to its citizens, other formats can still be used and should be accepted in other Member States.
Ryanair's Q1 results out. Loss of €273m but revenue up 196% on a year ago, and load factor up 12 points from 61% to 73%. Cash position significantly improved (not that it was ever bad), €4bn up from €3.1bn at 31 March and net debt down from €2.28bn to €1.66bn.
Customers are booking late, but they are booking - meaning it's all vaccines vs variants. Story of the pandemic. Earlier guidance was 80-120m passengers, now they're calling 90-100m for the year.
Does 90-100m break even?
They're guiding a small loss to break even. To be honest, Ryanair is having a great pandemic. Its balance sheet is incredibly strong and many of its competitors are going to come out of it with uncertainty or not at all. Ryanair will hoover up cheap aircraft, pilots and all the other pain points that existed pre pandemic will go away and they can expand to their hearts content. That's why the share price is trading up near historical highs versus IAG or Lufthansa for example not being a million miles off where they were at the bottom in March last year, or Air France / KLM actually lower than March 2020.
Well made points re Ryanair, they will come out of this much better than anyone else, do you think they will dip their toes into transatlantic given this may be a golden opportunity for them with the traditional carriers really struggling?
Naw...... all that will happen is that the airports (and other contractors supplying services to them like Car Hire, Catering etc) will get squeezed again for better prices / discounts / incentives / marketing etc. They always revert to the same Well...... and then refuse to allow these suppliers revert back to pre-covid prices etc.
Not to mention the auld 'aviation- disaster' beating up of Boeing - unless the latter have grown a set of liathroids since 9/11!
Nah. They’ll just fight for ever more market share in Europe and make money doing the thing that’s making them loads of money, versus getting into some totally new business model that other LCCs are struggling severely with.
Theres a good article in the Irish Times this week:
Eurocontrol says Irish air travel ‘worst affected’ in Europe last year -- https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/eurocontrol-says-irish-air-travel-worst-affected-in-europe-last-year-1.4767911
Some choice quotes:
[quote] Irish air travel suffered more from Covid-19 restrictions than any other European country last year, according to the latest assessment of the pandemic’s impact on aviation.
The organisation says Irish aviation suffered worst from the pandemic in a report covering all of its region, which includes Georgia, Israel, Morocco and Ukraine.
According to Eurocontrol, the Republic lost 183,000 flights last year compared to 2019, a 62 per cent decline in traffic.
Eurocontrol’s report dubs the Republic “the most affected state” in its region in 2021.
The Government imposed some of Europe’s toughest anti-travel measures during the pandemic, including controversial hotel quarantines that hit workers employed by multinational companies.
The State waited until July 17th to adopt the EU’s digital Covid certificate, meant to reinforce European citizens’ right to freedom of travel, making it the last EU member state to do so.[/quote]
I really hope the Irish government has learnt its lesson from 2021 and won't spend 2022 gutting our aviation and tourism sectors in the same manner. All of their extremely costly, destructive, measures have proven completlely unneccessary now, looking back on it. But I wouldn't bet on it...
Since when was an antigen test acceptable for travel to the US?
Is it not supposed to be a PCR test?
antigen testing meets requirements
Antigen test within 24 hours of flying. Beware, if you have an onward connection, that we needed to show physical vaccination cards last week. JetBlue check-in staff wouldn’t accept the electronic cert on the phone.
…International connection…
So they wanted the piece of cardboard you could conceivably make falsely at home vs. an official EU document…. makes sense
