Wider impact of Covid-19 on Air NZ
Mar 30, 2020 | 4:38 pm
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I remember when we used to travel with Yellow Fever vaccination certificates in certain countries, not sure if that is still a thing. Guess they would do something like this
Mar 30, 2020 | 4:59 pm
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Given the scale of this. Will be interesting if they sit down and move vaccination status into the SITA immigration passport verification stuff to reduce the paperwork & speed things up.
Mar 30, 2020 | 6:45 pm
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In the parliamentary committee today Sir David Skegg referred to potentially using antibody tests to check people at the border, prior to letting them in (referring to tourists) but it also raises the question of whether in order to travel overseas from NZ, we would need this to. That of course means you need to have caught it first!
Mar 30, 2020 | 6:59 pm
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In the parliamentary committee today Sir David Skegg referred to potentially using antibody tests to check people at the border, prior to letting them in (referring to tourists) but it also raises the question of whether in order to travel overseas from NZ, we would need this to. That of course means you need to have caught it first!
I'm speaking as someone who feels trapped in the Seattle area of the USA, desperately wishing I was still in New Zealand or the South Pacific for the next few years.
Mar 31, 2020 | 1:42 am
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Pasta at walls is pretty accurate. There are so many unknowns, the world has literally never had to deal with this situation, we have absolutely no idea how it will play out for flying at all, and I am sure at this stage the airlines have zero idea either.
Mar 31, 2020 | 1:56 am
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I tend to disagree, the world has been through this before with the Spanish Flu 1917-1919. Interesting to read the approach in the US at the time Federal absent and left to state governors same same but different.
Mar 31, 2020 | 2:00 am
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Though pre aviation, pre vaccines, pre testing, pre mass travel/globalisation, etc
Mar 31, 2020 | 2:58 am
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Was it the same for the Black death ? The government did not print any money ? No quarantine or lockdown?
Mar 31, 2020 | 2:59 am
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Mar 31, 2020 | 4:28 am
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Mar 31, 2020 | 3:59 pm
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/...-zealand-skies
More details about planes parked up and the incredibly low volumes of passengers:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/120...ds-58-aircraft
More details about planes parked up and the incredibly low volumes of passengers:
Stuff has been told of other recent shifts where crew saw less than seven passengers on an entire day of flying, across multiple sectors.
Air New Zealand has grounded just over half its fleet around the country amid the coronavirus lockdown.
The airline has parked 58 of its 114 aircraft across Auckland, Nelson, Christchurch and Wellington airports.
...
The grounded planes are:
The airline has parked 58 of its 114 aircraft across Auckland, Nelson, Christchurch and Wellington airports.
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The grounded planes are:
- 7 Q300 domestic turbo prop
- 10 ATR-72 domestic turbo prop
- 23 Airbus A320 domestic and shorthaul international
- 12 Boeing 777-200ER and 777-300ER long haul
- 6 Boeing 787-9 international long haul
Apr 1, 2020 | 3:55 pm
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/...ockdown-period
The airline's domestic schedule while the country is at Alert Level 4 is as follows:
Auckland - Christchurch
3 x return services Monday - Friday
1 x return service Saturday/Sunday
Auckland - Wellington
1 x return service Monday - Sunday
Wellington - Christchurch
2 x return services Monday - Friday
1 x return service Saturday/Sunday
Wellington - Nelson
1 x return service Monday - Friday
Christchurch - Dunedin
1 x return service Monday
1 x return service Friday
3 x return services Monday - Friday
1 x return service Saturday/Sunday
Auckland - Wellington
1 x return service Monday - Sunday
Wellington - Christchurch
2 x return services Monday - Friday
1 x return service Saturday/Sunday
Wellington - Nelson
1 x return service Monday - Friday
Christchurch - Dunedin
1 x return service Monday
1 x return service Friday
Apr 1, 2020 | 4:24 pm
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Apr 1, 2020 | 4:44 pm
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Apr 2, 2020 | 3:49 am
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