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Originally Posted by SCP440
They also need to stop the amount of air travel that is considered normal. I get it that it is nice to be on a beach 4 hours after leaving the UK but what harm are we doing to the atmosphere for this privilege? Maybe we should pay more or be limited to two or 4 flights a year?
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It was air travel that spread the virus worldwide so quickly, and big city public transport like the London underground which guaranteed an exponential infection rate until the lockdown. Paradoxically, car travel is not a significant contributor to viral spread and is so much more convenient in most parts of the UK than public transport. As for everyone going to work on their bikes...not practical for hundreds of thousands of us.
If holiday makers have to quarantine for 14 days at both ends of the trip, a typical family holiday would take that family out of circulation for five to six weeks, so the airline industry is currently royally stuffed with no prospect of returning to pre Covid schedules for the foreseeable future. Few working families can afford six weeks off! We had a flight booked to Spain at the end of the month which was just cancelled. Ryanair is understandably trying to avoid refunds, but hopefully we'll prevail eventually. They might be in a better position if Mike O'Leary hadn't taken £90 million in bonuses recently.