Flight Watch

Please don't say that Andrew, already had five flights cancelled but in a way what can we do! Maybe go to the lengths some people have of travelling to Lisbon and going anyway they can to get back to blighty when we are so much safer here, I'm going to stick it out provided my landlord doesn't ask me to leave,l have noticed over the last few days different new people in my apartment block maybe down from Lisbon/Porto, keep that stiff upper lip, it's not that bad, 🍻😎

mmmm just hope it doesn't affect the Algarve with all the good work they have done, the Portuguese  from the north coming down for holiday weekend, hope they are sensible and stick to the rules. Lisbon and some other  Northern areas still  have a high level of Covid 19 cases. 

A big bang on the head for those who thought Portugal was doing well with the virus ... cases in Lisboa alone are increasing somewhere between 250 and 300 per day recently. Meanwhile, the whole of Scotland (5.5million) is going up by an average of 20 ... and nobody thinks Nicola and Boris have done well ... what Costa has done here by not treating Algarve as a special case (the Balearic islands have been) is to jeopardise tourism for the rest of the summer and autumn .. I hope we dont see a big rise in Algarve cases, previously going up by maybe 3 per day ..

Liverpool Echo is reporting Government guide lines issued to the likes of BA, TuI, Ryanair, Jet2 etc say hand luggage is to be avoided, “passengers are to be asked” not to bring hand luggage.

All international airports in Portugal are owned and run by ANA and have similar preparations, such as temperature detectors. There is always the possibility of an infected person getting on a plane, but the risk will be small ... especially if you have a window seat. The problem is that not all airlines and not all originating airports have had appropriate measures .. but that is changing.

cubsur wrote: Avoid hand luggage? There is no way in the world I would put my camera and laptop into hold luggage. And what about germ ridden coats and jackets? Bags of stuff purchased in the airport shops? Must we travel without those? The ideas are getting ridiculous. Is society expected to be totally free of risk? And yes airlines have weaseled their way out of the capacity restrictions being enforced on trains and buses, as if their passengers are somehow 'cleaner' than those who use other forms of transport. They claim their on board air filtration systems are 99.9% effective in removing all known germs. That is the same percentage, more or less, of the population who haven't got this anyway.