Re: Lufthansa: 10B EUR bailout - Update

There is an element of intra-EU politics at play. German enterprises and the German economy at large have been among the most successful beneficiaries of EU integration. Partly out of a natural disposition against spendthriftness, but also partly to control competition, German governments have alway...

Re: Widower Pleads With Twitter To Remove POTUS Murder Conspiracy Tweets

...and we are all curious what Trump will put in an executive order today, and how much that in fact violates Freedom of Speech I wouldn't worry about it too much. There are still a few (young) adults in the White House who have been around Trump long enough to know that there's no arguing with the...

Re: Lufthansa: 10B EUR bailout - Update

Carsten Spohr told staff in a videoconference Lufthansa will run out of cash in July and may not be able to pay salaries in June,without a quick agreement on an aid package, as it may take as many as four weeks for the funds to reach the carrier. https://trends.levif.be/economie/politique-economique...

Re: Another day another police killing

What terrifies me is that I can see some day in the future, a so-called "good guy with a gun" walk into a seemingly similar situation where the detainee complains he is being asphyxiated or otherwise in lethal danger, the police officer does not appear to respond, and the good guy draws hi...

Re: Lufthansa: 10B EUR bailout - Update

[As per German media, the decision has only been postponed since nobody know whether and what limitations the EU will ask for. Doesn't the EU typically work the other way around? Meaning the parties present the competition commission an agreed upon deal on which the EU issues its conclusions? I may...

Re: Trump Wants Guarantees GOP Convention Will Be Full Or Else...

Come on Texas! That would be a good venue change! Maybe South Texas, or the Panhandle..... I'd be ok with that. I hear Midland summers are bearable. Besides, it's not going to be Texas. As soon as it was mentioned, Pence narrowed it down to Georgia or Florida in one of the Sunday Morning talk shows...

Re: Airports that can be accessed on foot vs airports that can only be accessed by car / train

You can easily walk into DAL, however you cannot walk to in DFW. Even though there are a couple of roads coming from residential neighborhoods on the West side of DFW, they have, to the best of my knowledge, no sidewalk. Mentioned above a few times, but I’d like to reiterate how scenic the walk to L...

Re: Hertz Likely to File for Bankruptcy

How hard is it to figure out a modern car? Depends what you want out of it.... Clearly there are manufacturers that took the approach since dealers provide training nowadays, there's no need to make access to Bluetooth and car settings intuitive! When I have a long drive ahead of me, I am going to ...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - May 2020

The original publication out of Britain (which was likely the biggest study contributing to the worldwide lockdowns) estimated more than 2 million in the US without any risk mitigation. Now, somehow that number has climbed to 12 to 32 million? This is a dangerous virus, but it’s not Ebola. It's not...

Re: Germany to permanently ban brothels

You don't call a brothel "brothel". That doesn't mean it isn't registered as such. If it was done on the DL, there wouldn't be these windows. In fact isn't that a typically Belgian and Dutch thing ? By contrast in France if you rent an apartment to a prostitute, you can end up in jail. If...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - May 2020

Here in the US, we're almost at 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 as of now. Yet in 2017 the following numbers of people died from these causes, according to the CDC: Current estimates are that the virus will stop spreading when we reach 70% herd immunity (70% of the population has the virus). In the US...

Trump Wants Guarantees GOP Convention Will Be Full Or Else...

On this Memorial Day, our president wants us to remember what he is famous for... He is demanding that the governor of North Carolina gives assurances today that the Republican national convention will be allowed to operate at full capacity. This in a state that saw its highest one-day increase in n...

Re: Lufthansa: 10B EUR bailout - Update

For plan B (voluntary administration chapter 11 style), Lufthansa cannot wait until the bitter end. This option is only available as long as there is liquidity in the company, so this is not going to be a neverending story. The time window to agree on a bailout deal with the state is closing quickl...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - May 2020

When you thought things couldn't get any dumber, the US comes to the rescue Shops around the US make headlines for denying entry to those wearing masks This is the kind of stupidity that makes me firmly against granting businesses blanket liability waivers related to the corona virus. I am fine wit...

Re: Southwest Airlines planning on squeezing competitors in weaker positions

They should try to kill off F9 and NK (either buying them or driving them out of business). In re: slots, legacies will not make those available without going bankrupt first. WN might be able to get slots from B6, F9 or NK if they need cash and sell them. They should not, and if they try, they shou...

Re: BeNeLux Aviation Thread - 2020

Its a fair point, obviously all LH group now anyway but given ZRH-BRU was possibly the most ridiculously expensive flight on the planet you would have thought SN would have been in there on their metal before. Personally I am not surprised. Doesn't make sense to compete like that. However, because ...

Re: Hertz Likely to File for Bankruptcy

Hertz was hit with a quadruple whammy: - A policy of acquiring a much larger portion of their fleet rather than leasing them compared to the competition left them exposed to a higher debt burden to finance their fleet; - They (will) have to take significant write-downs on the value of their owned fl...

Re: Germany to permanently ban brothels

Why is it the government's business what consenting adults do in their bedrooms with their own bodies? Why would a "license" of any kind be required? Police state mentality. Ordinarily I agree the government can regulate business for tax purposes. But, the government should not regulate p...

Re: Germany to permanently ban brothels

Why is it a good thing? Fred There is a huge amount sex trafficking from Eastern Europe countries. That is reason enough to ban it Trafficking is a problem whether prostitution is legal or not. It seems there are two divergent opinions among experts and stakeholders, one being that making prostitut...

Re: Lufthansa: 10B EUR bailout - Update

As the government becomes a shareholder, it can do as any shareholder desires and formulate demands for the management. You are both right and wrong at the same time. It isn't a shareholder making a demand of management, but a future investor conditioning its investment to a management promise to t...

Re: BA cancels LHR-CHS for rest of 2020

bravotango75 wrote:

Probably shut down IAH, DFW, and AUS in addition to MSY. Not a lot of prospects for 3rd tier markets, I doubt that BA will return to the smaller US destinations.

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - May 2020

A relatively healthy person under 50 has more risk of getting struck by lightening than dying from covid, so why are we acting like this is a deadly plague, it is not. We could have done some very basic things like some reasonable social distancing and increase hygiene and enhanced measures for the...

Re: Stupid things observed during COVID

This viral guy getting told off at Costco for refusing to wear a mask over 'freedom' is a new winner. It seems some Americans rabidly proclaiming their 'freedom' seem to forget that private property rights supersede whatever you feel like doing: https://twitter.com/elonjames/status/1262833283127226...

Re: The Business Class Divide in America

Very similar comments - ‘my business sells X and is closed, but the supermarket/WalMart across the street sells ABC *and* X, and are ‘essential’ so they are open and taking my income away. Why can they stay open and I can’t?’ The governor of Michigan tried to avoid this very issue by drawing up lis...

Re: Lufthansa: 10B EUR bailout - Update

The French (and Dutch) government didn't ask for 25% of the company for the support which AF/KL received. Thus the German government imposes stricter conditions as they did with Condor and what the French and Dutch have done. No, they asked for an end to all domestic flights where a train ride of 2...

Re: White House Shafting Nat’l Guard Retirements To Save A Buck

Do we seriously think that the DoD picks up the phone and calls the White House every time they're about to act in accordance with a policy long ago established that has survived multiple administrations from the left and the right? I can find fault with Trump and his administration all day every da...

Re: Shakespeare Globe Possibly Closing Due to COVID-19

Why is it not getting funded by the Arts Council?

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - May 2020

When releasing test results, Texas is combining some antibody tests with its COVID detection test, but its count of positive tests includes only those from the detection test, which has the effect of artificially lowering the overall infection rate. When asked by the Texas Observer, a spokesman of t...

Re: COVID-19 Non Aviation Thread - May 2020