Airline problems
Apr 17, 2020 14:07:39 #
whitnebrat
Loc: In the wilds of Oregon
I was looking at the Flight radar site this morning at 3 or so ... and it was something that I have never seen before. There were NO commercial passenger flights in the western US. None. Only the cargo carriers, Fedex, UPS, DHL and Amazon. Just a symptom of what is happening and yet to come.
Airlines are parking planes all over the country, because demand is down.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-16/c****av***s-travel-what-happens-to-planes-grounded-by-c****-**
This is just a precursor of the next six months or so, maybe longer.
I predict:
Many states will try to open up for business flat out and suffer a resurgence of cases, causing them to go back to step 1, and re-invoke stay-at-home restrictions.
Airline travel, cruise industry, and hotels will not recover until the end of the year if then.
Restaurants and bars will be able to reopen but with limited seating and capacity, limiting their revenue and making it difficult to stay in business.
It'll be at least two years to get back to pseudo-normal, and require a v*****e that is mandatory to make it work.
I hope sincerely that I am wrong, but my instincts tell me that this scenario is probable.
Airlines are parking planes all over the country, because demand is down.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-16/c****av***s-travel-what-happens-to-planes-grounded-by-c****-**
This is just a precursor of the next six months or so, maybe longer.
I predict:
Many states will try to open up for business flat out and suffer a resurgence of cases, causing them to go back to step 1, and re-invoke stay-at-home restrictions.
Airline travel, cruise industry, and hotels will not recover until the end of the year if then.
Restaurants and bars will be able to reopen but with limited seating and capacity, limiting their revenue and making it difficult to stay in business.
It'll be at least two years to get back to pseudo-normal, and require a v*****e that is mandatory to make it work.
I hope sincerely that I am wrong, but my instincts tell me that this scenario is probable.
Apr 17, 2020 18:42:59 #
whitnebrat wrote:
I was looking at the Flight radar site this mornin... (show quote)
Some of those guidelines are already being implemented in China....
Fewer flights sounds ok to me... People don't need to be that mobile anyways...
Hope you're well
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