Luchtvaartnieuws / binnen en buitenland.

[Ton Hasselt]

Wielen zijn er misschien al afgehaald     

[Pinkpanther]

Zal wel los lopen met de banden.....  zal hooguit wat lucht uitlopen,,,  je kunt in the PHP toch bijna nergens harder als 80 km/uur rijden.
In Cebu een Ferrari zien  rijden....die werd links en rechts ingehaald door Jeepneys  .. ha ha       

Wil toch half september weer naar the PHP...  zou dit lukken

Pinkpanther      

[Ton Hasselt]

Ben je getrouwd daar?

[tjenn]

Wielen zijn er misschien al afgehaald     

Ge zegt al zoiets       Hij staat in een afgesloten garage dus ben er vrij gerust in. Alhoewel er hangt maar 1 slot aan de poort

[tjenn]

Er zijn plezieriger dingen in het leven. Kan je voorstellen 15 uren en meer met dat mondmasker op en opeengestapeld. Dat gaan ze toch niet toepassen op die lange vluchten ofwel?

Daar juist van cdo naar Manila gevlogen. Sardienen doos zat vol muilband op.
Volgende vlucht om middernacht naar Seoul. En dan richting Munchen 12 uur en half. Zo zal wel ook met muilbandje op zijn, heb er verschillende mee. Voor die lange vlucht om te wisselen.
Al vertrokken deze morgen om drie uur. Zullen normaal maandag avond aankomen aan de kust. Mooi ritje van 46 uur al door een griepje.

Goede reis zou ik zeggen    Ben wel benieuwd naar uw 46 uren tripje ik mag er niet aandenken dat door te brengen met een mondmasker op. 

[Chowking]

Will there be an international air travel resurgence in 2021?

By Lewis Harper16 October 2020


Most airlines are resigned to the next few months being flat at best in terms of international air travel demand amid widespread restrictions, quarantine requirements and rising coronavirus cases in many regions.

Impatient carriers will continue to burn through cash and resize operations, in the hope that next year will bring some better news. It seems highly likely that more bankruptcies are ahead, whatever the coming months bring.

But when this crisis reaches the 12-month mark around February/March 2021, are there any reasons to believe that things will look vastly better than they do today?

The cautious answer is: "Yes, they might, but there are no guarantees."

Every optimistic forecast must be tempered by a recognition that the airline industry's fortunes are inexorably linked to how quickly the virus is brought under control – a factor outside its control.

International air travel cannot enter a full recovery phase while the virus is as big a threat as it is today. Quite simply, most people won't commit to crossing borders while it still comes with a genuine threat of catching Covid-19, rapidly changing travel restrictions and quarantine requirements, and consequently unpredictable flight schedules. Those factors make international travel impracticable and undesirable, even where it is possible.

That point stands despite commericial air travel itself likely being relatively safe – IATA claiming recently that a person had more chance of being hit by lightning than of catching coronavirus on a flight.

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But within that context, there is still a reasonable chance that better news for airlines will be forthcoming in the next few months – particularly in terms of medical developments.

Important data on the final-stage trials of several vaccines should be available soon, and perhaps one or two candidates might already be in circulation come early 2021. Concurrently, progress could be made on treatments and the care of those infected with Covid-19. And come early next year, more of the world will have a better idea of what works and what doesn't in terms of keeping case numbers low.

In the most optimistic scenarios, it may be further proven that immunity to Covid-19 is more prevalent than previously throught. For this reason, or others, the potency of the virus may wane as the months go by, even amid waves of new cases.

In terms of aviation-specific developments, more "travel bubbles" might open up, allowing pockets of international connectivity. Schemes such as the European Union's traffic light system for tracking cases might make it easier for carriers to serve certain routes. And perhaps IATA and ACI World will get their way and a widespread pre-flight testing regime will have opened up more international markets.

In combination, those and other factors might put the airline industry on a much stronger footing come the northern hemisphere spring.

WHAT MIGHT FURTHER STALL DEMAND RETURN?
But there are also plenty of developments that could further delay the signficiant opening up of international markets well into next year, and perhaps beyond.

Many scientists point out that a vaccine will not be a "silver bullet" for this crisis. Any societal benefits from inoculation will take some time to be realised – with population-wide delivery taking months at best – and will be on a sliding scale of success that won't be measurable overnight.

And that's only if a viable vaccine is signed off by health regulatory authorities, of which there is no guarantee.

The consequences of more evidence of coronavirus reinfections are also potentially significant. More generally, learnings about the strength and longevity of immunity might be on the more negative side of expectations.

At the same time, better treatments for Covid-19 are only likely to bring incremental benefits, with the chances of a "cure" infinitesimally small.

Moreover, without significant medical breakthroughs and/or the virus retreating, a scenario exists where more governments tighten their borders next year as they look to other countries, such as New Zealand, which have seen success using such suppression strategies.

Indeed, the current "second waves" of the virus in several regions raise the possibility that such draconian measures might look attractive to more governments before too long.

The bleak economic picture – with millions of job lost worldwide and corporate travel demand severely depressed – must also be baked into the demand outlook, whatever progress the new year brings in other areas.

Ultimately, while cautious optimism about improving conditions next year is justified, pent-up demand for international flying going into 2021 is most likely to be converted into actual travel by a much improved health picture, underpinned by medical advancements.

Absent such developments, it is worth remembering that the initial wave of Covid-19 hit in the February-March timeframe – precisely the point in 2021 when some are hoping for a reprieve from the horrific market conditions seen this year.

Nothing should be taken for granted.

Bron: www.flightglobal.com/networks/will-there-be-an-international-air-travel-resurgence-in-2021/140629.article

[Chowking]

SINGAPORE AIRLINES START MET DIGITAAL MEDISCH PASPOORT

25 december 2020 - 11:55 | Door: onze redactie | Foto: Singapore Airlines

SCHIPHOL - Singapore Airlines start met de invoering van een digitaal certificaat dat is ontwikkeld door de International Air Transport Association (IATA) en dat wordt gebruikt om de COVID-19 testresultaten en de vaccinatiestatus van een reiziger te controleren.

De app, die de naam Travel Pass draagt, wordt gebruikt op vluchten van Singapore Airlines van Jakarta of Kuala Lumpur naar Singapore. De luchtvaartmaatschappij meldt in een persbericht dat ze het programma kan uitbreiden naar andere steden als de proeven succesvol zijn.

Ook is de luchtvaartmaatschappij van plan om het certificaat in de eigen SingaporeAir mobiele app te integreren in de komende maanden.

De COVID-19 testen worden "integraal onderdeel" van het luchtverkeer en de certificaten zijn, volgens Singapore Airlines, een ideale manier om "de gezondheidsgegevens van een passagier te valideren".

bron:  www.luchtvaartnieuws.nl/nieuws/categorie/2/airlines/singapore-airlines-start-met-digitaal-medisch-paspoort

[Kano]

Wat nu als je geen mobieltje hebt of een simpel ding waarop je geen apps kunt installeren? En waar blijft het medisch geheim als men straks gaat uitbreiden en alle gezondheidsgegevens van jou kunnen controleren?

[Luke]

Wat nu als je geen mobieltje hebt of een simpel ding waarop je geen apps kunt installeren? En waar blijft het medisch geheim als men straks gaat uitbreiden en alle gezondheidsgegevens van jou kunnen controleren?

Dan ben je in Singapore niet welkom.... (no money, no honey!)
Trouwens nog wel meer van die bizarre "wetten". Iets dat DU30 graag zou copieren:
https://mustsharenews.com/legal-things-singapore/

[Chowking]

NEWS / NATIONAL / COVID-19 immunity passport proposals get DOT support


National, News
COVID-19 immunity passport proposals get DOT support
Published December 11, 2020, 7:02 PM

by Hanah Tabios

The Department of Tourism (DOT) is backing proposals for a COVID-19 immunity passport to spur the recovery of the hardest hit sector.

"The proposals for a COVID-19 passport is welcome and will be looked into by the DOT, together with the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), as it will involve medical data on the vaccines and diplomatic agreements with other countries," Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said in a statement.

"The Department of Tourism supports initiatives to facilitate international cross border travel with stringent health and safety measures in place," she added, citing the said passport is vital to reviving international travel as it will restore the trust and confidence of people to travel to other countries once more while assuring receiving countries that their inbound tourists are vaccinated.

Tourism stakeholders also welcomed the initiative, saying that it can help streamline entry procedures in tourism destinations.

"Having that information ready, especially with regard to having been vaccinated, can eliminate some of the processes we now have like testing or quarantines upon arrival. That said, we also hope that it is a standardized document regardless of what country the traveller comes from. We also hope that the passport will come up with security features that can safeguard against counterfeiting or duplication," TCP president Jose Clemente III told the Manila Bulletin.

Last month, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that it is working on launching the IATA Travel Pass, a digital platform for passengers.

The global aviation body described the platform as "a global and standardized solution to validate and authenticate all country regulations regarding COVID-19 passenger travel requirements."

"Informing passengers on what tests, vaccines and other measures they require prior to travel, details on where they can get tested and giving them the ability to share their tests and vaccination results in a verifiable, safe and privacy-protecting manner is the key to giving governments the confidence to open borders," it said.

Among the reasons cited by IATA which prevent people from traveling in the new normal are the complexity and variety of COVID-19 testing requirements, information gap, as well as inefficiencies, errors and fraud among check-in agents.

The lack of travel then led to several business shutdowns, laying off millions of tourism workers, including airline employees.

With this, budget carrier Cebu Pacific (CEB) president and chief executive officer Lance Gokongwei earlier said he believes a COVID-19 immunity passport is essential, especially when the country's international border would open up for foreign visitors.

"If the tourism and travel industry recover, this is an absolute necessity," he said. "Unless we resolve the confidence issue and the safety issue, which can only happen with herd immunity and vaccines, then there is nothing to be spoken about."

"Connect this to a COVID passport so that countries would trust when we say that a passenger has already achieved the levels of antibodies so he would not be infectious to anyone," he added.

As international travel remains restricted, foreign visitor arrivals in the country plunged at 82.4 percent to 1.3 million from January to November this year compared to the 7.4 million arrivals in the same period last year, according to DOT Undersecretary and Spokesperson Benito Bengzon Jr.

But according to the recent Travel Restrictions Report of the United Nations World Tourism Organization, 152 destinations or around 70 percent of the global destinations have now eased restrictions on international tourism out of the 217 destinations worldwide that are being monitored.

UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili said in a statement that the lifting of travel restrictions is essential to drive the sector's wider recovery from the social and economic impacts of the pandemic.

Bron: www.mb.com.ph/2020/12/11/covid-19-immunity-passport-proposals-get-dot-support/