It’s all very well to postulate regards furlough payments, forget foreign holidays, stay at home etc,etc however nobody so far has actually said what we are facing here isn’t just a company or couple of companies facing ruin - it’s a complete industry and everything directly and indirectly facing with it. Taking out commercial aviation results in airline job losses, handling companies job losses, airport job losses, the travel trade be it counterfacing staff in shops or online travel companies, caterers, fuellers et al.
This then spills out into the wider economy, oil companies, banks through mortgage holidays, repossessions impacting their profits, company dividends being slashed or ceased, councils not receiving rates for business impacting their ability to provide services......and finally income tax as more people will be made redundant and tax revenue will fall. Then.... who will be left to pay into the system to fund the public sector, or will the public sector be slashed to cut costs? This is even before mentioning the NHS who like many other services are at the front end fighting Covid 19.
All this sounds so negative, and it is! What is required is a safe, sensible and proactive move to ease out gradually from all the current restrictions imposed. Use all the information from our own scientists and medical officers and examine how other European countries are coping. Look, listen, learn and implement before it’s too late.
Otherwise civil aviation will become a distant memory, a flight of fantasy.
