You can always buy two seats !
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https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/trave...ouncement.html
Good move, there has been no documented spread of COVID onboard an aircraft in NZ and very few around the world.
One thing we have learnt in this pandemic is ventilation and length of exposure are key factors, airplanes completely cycle the air in the cabin every 4 mins. The masks and phased boarding/deplaning offer added layers of protection.
Unfair for the airlines to always bare the financial cost for everyone. As RTM says if you are still not convinced, buy two seats.
Beagle, do let us know how this is bad news somehow too. :confused:
Air New Zealand releases $50 flights as social distancing rules relaxed for plane passengers
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The airline is also removing change fees for domestic flights booked for travel up until March 31, 2021.
I think you should disclose you work for AIR in their public relations department :p
Even with this the mid point of AIR's cash burn forecast is $75m per month. That's $2.5m cash burned every single day.
AIR did okay domestically when the whole country was at level 1. Just because its expedient for the Govt to say its safe to travel like a sardine if everyone behaves and wears a mask I think Aucklanders under level 2.5 are smarter than you give them credit for and know its much riskier now than in July under level 1.
I used to know accountants that could add so fast with pencil and paper (family members) that they could do a set of accounts on an A4 page. 2.5 million a day? 50 dollars flights? im going in to see my travel agent toMw....now where can i go.... not far... and 50 dollars? i think i might just take lots of small flight around kiwi land (new name for the country) better for marketing than ATEAROWA.. never go to work in europe for tourism... Kiwi Land will work.
Beagle there have been an awful lot of flights since COVID appeared and very, very few documented onboard infections. Please don't lose your mind and join the crazies. Air onboard an aircraft is completely changed every 4 mins and blows down into the floor not into people's faces. But yes, personal responsibility also plays a role, wear a decent mask, wash your hands/sanitise, book another seat or don't fly. Thought that was your kind of politics anyway?
Sorry to disappoint I do not work for Air NZ or anyone related, just calling it as I see it. How's your short position in Air NZ going?
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52822913
But virologist Dr Tang disagrees: "The problem is that if you're sitting next to somebody - 0.6 metres in economy, say - who's coughing and sneezing in that immediate area, that aerosol will reach you before it has time to reach the filtration system, get filtered and come back down again."
Profitable and going to very much more so.
OK lets put that one to bed. As far as I can ascertain there is no filtration system. Use ATR72 as example. Hot bleed air is taken from engines this is cooled expanded heat removed and recompressed, this gives cold air which is mixed in a chamber with hot bleed air to get the correct temp, recirculated cabin air is also added to the mix, this air is pumped into the cabin and exits at floor level on left side of aircraft, a % is re cycled back into the cabin by blending with the fresh bleed air. There are no viral level filters , infact viruses may well be recycled many times before the end of the flight. Aircraft don't carry much unnecessary stuff, like filters etc.
That said I have been informed that the A320's have hepa filters on the recirc air only. But yes, the rest of it is bleed air from the 5th compressor stage.
Dr Tang, meanwhile, says he would fly with precautions. "If I get on a plane, I'll be wearing a mask. It's not 100% but at least I'll have some protection."
That sounds very much to me like If I have to fly, I will with precautions. I don't have to fly so won't and I'd bet good money (and have) that the real nub of the issue is that
flying has completely flipped on its head from something you enjoy when you want too to something you endure when you have too.