The airline bloodbath has begun

a reply to: Zaphod58
Thank you 🙏

a reply to: hutch622

60% domestic and 90% international.

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originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: karl 12

He's going to get hammered just as hard.

That may well be the case my friend but interesting that he's stepped down as CEO.

CEO of Ryanair steps down from role

Also interesting that, in the last month, the Major CEOs of Disney, Mastercard, Lbrands, Uber eats, Hulu, MGM, LinkedIn and IBM have also stepped down.

check the owners of the casinos world wide, they had the intake of what was going to happen

Brussels Airlines winds down services, and on March 21st shuts down until April 20th.

Alitalia is being renationalised.

Lauda is shut down until April 8th.

Malaysia and Singapore are either locked down or tightened borders. That hits Malaysia, AirAsia, AirAsia X, Malindao, and Firefly.

Airbus halted production in France and Spain for four days to implement new procedures.

US airlines have requested $58B in aid, and Trump made comments that they're going to protect Boeing and the airlines.

www.flightglobal.com...

a reply to: Zaphod58

Does that mean he will put in a domestic travel ban next?

a reply to: Habs2133

Selling off the fleet seems a drastic measure for a temporary situation don't you think?
I understand corralling them and running a skeleton crew for the time being.
But selling off inventory and putting veteran employees out to pasture seems extreme and not at all temporary.

a reply to: 38181

Personally I don't think so.

Austrian shuts down the 19th.

Midway is running on backup facilities. The tower is closed due to multiple controllers testing positive. They're running at a reduced tempo because of it.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: 38181

Personally I don't think so.

Betting we see limited bans. For example, to the State of Washington. We'll see how bad it gets. When/if an area reaches critical mass, they're going to have to seal it off to commercial traffic. "Essential services" probably go uninterrupted.

a reply to: RadioRobert

That won't surprise me. Nevada just ordered the closing of all non essential businesses.

I've been seeing and hearing a lot of worries about a travel ban affecting logistics, but I think we won't have to worry about that as that will most likely fall under essential business. As much as the Fed is doing to keep the economy up I don't see them stopping all freight shipping. They'll probably even continue to allow home deliveries.

a reply to: AutomateThis1

Truck drivers are essential, and loads that are related to the emergency are no longer regulated. Amazon has already announced that certain orders have priority, and that others won't be filled because of those having priority. We're seeing a downturn on loads for trucks already with some accounts.

Flightradar24 just posted that for the first time since March 3, 2019, with the exception of Christmas when multiple airports closed, they tracked less than 150,000 flights. The total for Tuesday was 148,330 flights.

originally posted by: Zaphod58
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Truck drivers are essential, and loads that are related to the emergency are no longer regulated. Amazon has already announced that certain orders have priority, and that others won't be filled because of those having priority. We're seeing a downturn on loads for trucks already with some accounts.

Hmm. I'm interested in seeing how this pans out. This will be the only real affect on me and my immediate family so far. My dad makes a lot of money dealing in rare guitars and making guitars. I still pick up packages for him on a daily basis from Asia, mostly Japan. We haven't seen any decrease so far in orders coming in. Heck, he still gets stuff from Russia, and pretty much everywhere else in the world. I figured with all the worries about how Covid-19 can remain alive on surfaces we'd be among the first in Tennessee to catch it if that were the case.

I mean it's possible I got it, and got over it real quick. I had a sore throat and runny nose a couple weeks back, but if my dad got it, according to the information being disseminated, he would get absolutely wrecked by it.

a reply to: AutomateThis1

Most shipping times are longer than it will remain alive on any surface. I've seen 3 and 9 days, and even going by air you're looking at a couple of weeks normally. The fastest I've shipped international was 8-10 days by Express.

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just want to update

a reply to: Zaphod58

I hear were shutting down international travel here in OZ come Friday for 6 months , no one in or out, that's quite extreme..

a reply to: hopenotfeariswhatweneed

Seriously? You guys wear bullet ant budgie smugglers and you're shutting your country down for half a year? I used to think you were all hard drinking, croc wrasslin tough guys.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Well our pray away prime minister is calling the shots, if only we could donate money to Hillsong for real virus protection.