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"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
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Death rate is now lower than the past 5 year average because people have stopped going to their GPs.
Fewer GP appointments = fewer prescriptions = fewer deaths
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Interesting!ugo.santalucia said:Death rate is now lower than the past 5 year average because people have stopped going to their GPs.
Fewer GP appointments = fewer prescriptions = fewer deaths
What do you see as the mechanism for prescriptions increasing mortality?0 -
Harold Shipman has retired, Ugo, it's safe to go back there now.ugo.santalucia said:Death rate is now lower than the past 5 year average because people have stopped going to their GPs.
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Robert Lazar makes a compelling argument for the existence of flying saucersleft the forum March 20230
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This opinion although not popular, is underrated!First.Aspect said:.
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I don't have much sympathy for the BA cabin crew. They engineered a deal where new employees would earn much less than them for doing the same job. Now there is a downturn, that decision is coming back to haunt them. Worth noting that the mixed fleet crew (the poorly paid newer ones) are about to receive a pay rise.1
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I've seen flying saucers! I have too. [/Manc33] They tend not to last long when they hit the nearest wall.ugo.santalucia said:Robert Lazar makes a compelling argument for the existence of flying saucers
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BA old school pilots are in this BALPA backed last in, first out scheme. The oldsters are well paid and self protected, the younger ones get screwed.TheBigBean said:I don't have much sympathy for the BA cabin crew. They engineered a deal where new employees would earn much less than them for doing the same job. Now there is a downturn, that decision is coming back to haunt them. Worth noting that the mixed fleet crew (the poorly paid newer ones) are about to receive a pay rise.
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I don't really understand how they expect to compete with other airlines that have much cheaper staff and better service.orraloon said:
BA old school pilots are in this BALPA backed last in, first out scheme. The oldsters are well paid and self protected, the younger ones get screwed.TheBigBean said:I don't have much sympathy for the BA cabin crew. They engineered a deal where new employees would earn much less than them for doing the same job. Now there is a downturn, that decision is coming back to haunt them. Worth noting that the mixed fleet crew (the poorly paid newer ones) are about to receive a pay rise.
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The all aviation sector should shrink by 50% immediately, with an aim to shrink to 10% of the pre-Covid size by 2050. At the same time, the average annual leave package should increase by 20%, to allow people to reach holiday destinations by bicycle or train.
All paid by higher tax of courseleft the forum March 20230 -
I hate to say it, but your views are very "academic bubble". They are very directly to the point without thinking about whether they would ever work.ugo.santalucia said:The all aviation sector should shrink by 50% immediately, with an aim to shrink to 10% of the pre-Covid size by 2050. At the same time, the average annual leave package should increase by 20%, to allow people to reach holiday destinations by bicycle or train.
All paid by higher tax of course
Aren't you better off promoting research into nuclear fusion or hydrogen fuel cells? Photovoltaics perhaps?
Because lets face it, fannying around the edges is pointless. As long as there are planes, people will fly. As long as oil/gas/coal is cheaper, people will burn it.2 -
Unions gonna union.TheBigBean said:
I don't really understand how they expect to compete with other airlines that have much cheaper staff and better service.orraloon said:
BA old school pilots are in this BALPA backed last in, first out scheme. The oldsters are well paid and self protected, the younger ones get screwed.TheBigBean said:I don't have much sympathy for the BA cabin crew. They engineered a deal where new employees would earn much less than them for doing the same job. Now there is a downturn, that decision is coming back to haunt them. Worth noting that the mixed fleet crew (the poorly paid newer ones) are about to receive a pay rise.
In fairness, almost all airlines struggle to make money in the long term.
Whole system is rigged with state subsidised lines that run at a loss.
Then it needs massive capital investment just to exist and then it’s amazingly exposed to disasters.0 -
I'm not sure what else you expect from somebody who is in one.First.Aspect said:
I hate to say it, but your views are very "academic bubble".ugo.santalucia said:The all aviation sector should shrink by 50% immediately, with an aim to shrink to 10% of the pre-Covid size by 2050. At the same time, the average annual leave package should increase by 20%, to allow people to reach holiday destinations by bicycle or train.
All paid by higher tax of course
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
You talk like Charlton Heston... so one could say that for as long as there are weapons around people will buy them and use them enthusiastically.First.Aspect said:
Because lets face it, fannying around the edges is pointless. As long as there are planes, people will fly. As long as oil/gas/coal is cheaper, people will burn it.
It's down to the regulators to realise that the aviation sector cannot be made environmentally sustainable for the foreseeable future and therefore needs to be limited...
Then if someone comes up with an electric plane that can be charged with solar cells, that's a different story, but that technology is not even in the pipeline.
Of course if you think a few thousand jobs and people's freedom to go get a skin cancer in Andalucia are more important than tackling climate change, then we are always going to collide, academic or not...
The bigger picture...
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Unions can union, but most don't make sure new employees get bad deals to benefit existing ones.rick_chasey said:
Unions gonna union.TheBigBean said:
I don't really understand how they expect to compete with other airlines that have much cheaper staff and better service.orraloon said:
BA old school pilots are in this BALPA backed last in, first out scheme. The oldsters are well paid and self protected, the younger ones get screwed.TheBigBean said:I don't have much sympathy for the BA cabin crew. They engineered a deal where new employees would earn much less than them for doing the same job. Now there is a downturn, that decision is coming back to haunt them. Worth noting that the mixed fleet crew (the poorly paid newer ones) are about to receive a pay rise.
In fairness, almost all airlines struggle to make money in the long term.
Whole system is rigged with state subsidised lines that run at a loss.
Then it needs massive capital investment just to exist and then it’s amazingly exposed to disasters.0 -
As an appendix to the previous,
Zoom has made a good proportion of business plane trips redundant, a large proportion of the rest was already "unnecessary travel", so what is left is not very much indeed.
Maybe the digital age has made the age of air travel obsolete... time to catch onleft the forum March 20230 -
how about govt's stop bailing out airlines which will reduce capacityugo.santalucia said:As an appendix to the previous,
Zoom has made a good proportion of business plane trips redundant, a large proportion of the rest was already "unnecessary travel", so what is left is not very much indeed.
Maybe the digital age has made the age of air travel obsolete... time to catch on0 -
That too...surrey_commuter said:
how about govt's stop bailing out airlines which will reduce capacityugo.santalucia said:As an appendix to the previous,
Zoom has made a good proportion of business plane trips redundant, a large proportion of the rest was already "unnecessary travel", so what is left is not very much indeed.
Maybe the digital age has made the age of air travel obsolete... time to catch on
there is a fear that airline collapsing will damage the economy, as if flying around the world was inherently creating wealth... it is no more so than people cycling around a city, but the latter is more sustainableleft the forum March 20230 -
Highly likely in the coming round of spending priorities.surrey_commuter said:
how about govt's stop bailing out airlines which will reduce capacityugo.santalucia said:As an appendix to the previous,
Zoom has made a good proportion of business plane trips redundant, a large proportion of the rest was already "unnecessary travel", so what is left is not very much indeed.
Maybe the digital age has made the age of air travel obsolete... time to catch on0 -
Time to realise that airline companies are just the flavour of the day.
Many other industries are going to be decimated in the next year.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I think the owners of any company that has only been decimated will be doing a jig of joypblakeney said:Time to realise that airline companies are just the flavour of the day.
Many other industries are going to be decimated in the next year.1 -
My unpopular opinion: Decimated no longer means what it used to. And that's fine.1
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I don't think 1 in 10 dying within a company is going to be that acceptable. Definitely not jig of joy territory.surrey_commuter said:
I think the owners of any company that has only been decimated will be doing a jig of joypblakeney said:Time to realise that airline companies are just the flavour of the day.
Many other industries are going to be decimated in the next year.1 -
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I was off school the day we did latin but does it not mean to reduce by one tenth, the original usage was discipline in the Roman Legions?TheBigBean said:
I don't think 1 in 10 dying within a company is going to be that acceptable. Definitely not jig of joy territory.surrey_commuter said:
I think the owners of any company that has only been decimated will be doing a jig of joypblakeney said:Time to realise that airline companies are just the flavour of the day.
Many other industries are going to be decimated in the next year.0
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