Because all infected, even if mild, as well as asymptomatic cases, are being hospitalized. And they have to remain hospitalized for at least 14 days after virus become undetectable within their body, in order to zero-ize the risk of shedding viruses toward the community. China do not report asympto...
Jump to postThere is more in the article. Why are the hospitals over-run? The Western vaccines didn't necessarily stop Omicron, but they made it so mild it didn't really matter for all but the most vulnerable. Because all infected, even if mild, as well as asymptomatic cases, are being hospitalized. And they h...
Jump to postAmid the lingering of pandemic, the airlines plan to be the first in Japan to adopt ATR72's Cargoflex option, loading containers onto the aircraft passenger deck, to compensate for the lowered passenger demand. https://www.niigata-nippo.co.jp/articles/-/27948 Who are they going to align with, JAL or...
Jump to posthttps://sky-budget.com/2022/01/06/jcas-launch-2023-kix/ Amid coronavirus, the airlines' launch have been delayed to 2023 Autumn. Why KIX instead of ITM? Both Toyama and Osaka have centrally located airports just a few minutes from downtown. People would definitely fly instead of taking a 3 hours tra...
Jump to postTV news in Hong Kong: People who spread photo of temporary quarantine facility's poor condition, like collapse of toilet roofs, are "Enemy of the whole society", because they "side with the virus", and claim there were never collapse of roof in those temporary quarantine facility...
Jump to posthttps://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220312-russia-warns-sanctions-could-cause-international-space-station-to-crash The report mentioned that NASA seek to keep the space station in orbit without Russian help, but with end of life of the ISS already planned a few years down the line (https://theconve...
Jump to posthttps://udn.com/news/story/120940/6158703 Taiwan plan to announce open up strategy next month, pending a few indicators: 1. Whether the worldwide pandemic situation continue to relax without new outbreak/variant emerging (Around the world, West Pacific is the only region still seeing growing outbrea...
Jump to postI'm not talking about Japanese jail treatment. I'm talking about the Japanese treatment of Ghosn. At the time of his arrest, Ghosn was pushing for a merger of Renault & Nissan which would consolidate the French's control over Nissan. For the Japanese, losing Nissan to a foreign company is tanta...
Jump to postNot sure about how it can be seen as "Japanese racism and pride" when their local criminals also receive same treatment Sure it is something that needs improvement, yet when one is being treated as poorly just as others in the country, I can't see how that constitute racism. I'm not talki...
Jump to postBecause if u send in neutral trucks as I explained above and confront regular Russian soldiers, it will send a message to them and the world. Like I said above. Highly publicized the convoy. Make the Russians look bad. - The message to the world is already clear enough. Russian are already looking ...
Jump to postThe oligarchs in Russia are financing this invasion. How about the west's ultra rich and most profitable corporations finance a non political peace operation. These people have had it pretty easy over the last few decades making boat loads of money. Time to give back some to force a peace so they c...
Jump to postIt's true that crime doesn't pay, but when there's injustice, you have to do what's right even if it's criminal. Having read about the Ghosn's treatment by the Japanese legal system, I feel that he's right to escape like that. To me, his ouster stinks of Japanese racism & pride (it's quite susp...
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Those teams that keep using hormones and such
No different here - everything is Trudeau's fault, or Horgan's fault, or whomever one doesn't like's fault :rotfl: The knowledge/opinion gap ratio is widening to untold levels. Observably high Dunning-Kruger effect is the new normal. Something else that struck me is the obsession they have with bla...
Jump to postI wonder if Air Japan would now be a common sight at CEB , CRK and DVO with NH remaining in MNL ? :scratchchin: They could easily serve the secondary PH cities with their Peach product. Don't need an AirJapan widebody for such. I think they are limiting their LCC narrowbody, at least those previous...
Jump to posthttps://transitjam.com/2022/03/10/govt-stalls-environmental-questions-as-concrete-cascades-across-lok-ma-chau-wetlands/ Under the pretext of saving life by fighting the pandemic being more important than respecting law and order, the government is now pouring concrete onto wetlands in order to house...
Jump to posthttps://tabiris.com/archives/af275/ JAL cite Cold War era experience to resume European flights using polar route through Alaska and Iceland to London, while ANA cited concern over possible lack of non-Russian ETOPS diversion alternative airport for twin-engine jet as for the reason why they fly ov...
Jump to postDOT yesterday issued final approval of Air Premia's foreign air carrier permit and exemption to serve the U.S. OST-2021-0085 Good timing...on the heels of the Korean Air/Asiana merger (if it truly goes through) slated for this year. But what if the merger doesn't go through? Isn't that somewhat of ...
Jump to postI just realized this mean any American flights to Manchuria [Norhteast Chiina], or Northern China in general, will have to route through Seoul, thus any proposed connection from these Northeastern Chinese cities by American carriers to Alaska by narrowbodies will be much more difficult.
Jump to postAnd that is all before we remember that internally, there is nothing different here to the situations in Chechnya & Georgia. If no one in Russia stepped up in the wake of those, there is not a reason to take that sort of risk for Ukraine. They didn't have the casualties in Georgia and Chechnya ...
Jump to postCR929 is still very far down the line isn't it? And isn't it supposed to use Western supplies too? They can change it but it'll be even more years to come? The latest plan was to buy avionics from Honeywell and Thales, as well as either Trent XWB or Trent 7000 engines. The biggest issue will be the...
Jump to postGiven the bans on supplying civil aviation parts and support to Russian airlines, I wonder if this will change the pictures for Russian aircraft like the IL-114, IL-96 and MS-21? I'm guessing it would spell the end for the Sukhoi SJ, given it's Russian assembled but has a huge amount of western com...
Jump to postWith the conflict going on and tge question about the availability of the An-124's, I was wondering if it's possible to move engines (specifically for the 777 line) in a Dreamliner? That would mean a whole new certification would be needed, right now it is only certified (with a couple of exception...
Jump to posthttps://tabiris.com/archives/af275/ JAL cite Cold War era experience to resume European flights using polar route through Alaska and Iceland to London, while ANA cited concern over possible lack of non-Russian ETOPS diversion alternative airport for twin-engine jet as for the reason why they fly ove...
Jump to postNearMiss wrote:Japan's Air Premia
hongkongflyer wrote:ANA’s zipair
https://covid19.sph.hku.hk/tc/dashboard
R number in Hong Kong have been stabilizing at around 2.5 for Omicron despite vaccine rate and masking and virtual curfew
https://news.mingpao.com/pns/%e8%a6%81%e8%81%9e/article/20220308/s00001/1646676109617 Hong Kong government model indicate 20% of the city have been infected, hence according to internal intel, they're now warming up to a idea of possibility of changing their pandemic-fighting strategy to minimize se...
Jump to postLooks like Covid has finally hit Hong Kong badly despite a 'Covid Zero' policy. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/05/asia/hong-kong-covid-crisis-intl-hnk-dst/index.html HK is a perfect example of why an indefinite zero-covid strategy makes exactly zero sense and can, in fact, make it even worse over time...
Jump to posthttp://cablenews.i-cable.com/ci/news/ar ... 6604491805
Vaccination rate in HK by groups: Age 12+: 90%, Age 80+: ~50%, Age 3-11: 40%+
Also, Hong Kong Post say they will stop mail/package delivery starting from Monday
Not really, the article does not appears to be a balanced account, nor does the opinion in title appears to be good. Points mentioned by the article, First, "Ukraine has in recent years erected a glut of statues honoring Ukrainian nationalists whose legacies are tainted by their indisputable re...
Jump to posthttps://www.cna.com.tw/news/acn/202203030156.aspx
Somehow, WHO still say Hong Kong should fight the current wave of outbreak with measures including border control, with the time now being 2022 March and the current case rate of the city.
To be fair, there is somewhat of a world wide ban for Russian aircraft if they are leased. So while there are still many Asian countries that can be flown to from Russia, the longer this goes on it will be more and more on foreign aircraft. Is there a flight ban for Japan and South Korea? They are ...
Jump to posthttps://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/618d46761c1591e6f3aea6b98dc3aa9c79d6b45c (Japanese report by Korean newspaper) Situation in South Korea have also become a bit concerning, with infection count, both raw total, and per population for mid-large-sized countries, are reaching #1 of the world, yet still...
Jump to postLooks like Covid has finally hit Hong Kong badly despite a 'Covid Zero' policy. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/05/asia/hong-kong-covid-crisis-intl-hnk-dst/index.html Note that the number of death reported in Hong Kong is lagging due to medical system breakdown, and they can only report people who died...
Jump to postOil is already taxed a lot in Europe, not for all applications (aviation...) but still. I just paid 1,998€/l for premium gas, that's 8,24$/US gallon. About 51% of that is taxes. Gas price in Hong Kong is now about 2.7 USD/L but the tax is just about 0.8 USD? There are probably other taxes. The oil ...
Jump to postAesma wrote:Oil is already taxed a lot in Europe, not for all applications (aviation...) but still. I just paid 1,998€/l for premium gas, that's 8,24$/US gallon. About 51% of that is taxes.
https://www.news.gov.hk/chi/2022/03/20220303/20220303_175912_881.html?type=category&name=health&tl=t Hong Kong government announced 56k new cases today, roughly 0.8% population (More than double US peak's rate?), with two-third of them presenting symptoms. No sign of peaking so far. Officia...
Jump to posthttps://www.traicy.com/posts/20220304234335/ Finnair resuming flight to Japan with 4 hours extra flight time, with detoured route to the north (polar route) or to the south depending on wind. Korean/Chinese flights pending.
Jump to postAny reports on them applying to West Pacific countries yet? Nothing yet. It seems that the only airspace bans applying to Russian aircraft are in Europe, plus the US and Canada. Russian flights are still operating go Mexico and the Dominican Republic, as well as the Middle East and Asia. Personally...
Jump to posthttps://tass.com/politics/1416131 Russian government claim they will not treat westerner fighting in Ukraine according to international humanitarian law, and they also will not treat them like prisoner of war, urge foreign citizens to "think a dozen times" before fight for "Kiev's na...
Jump to postDid not work after ww1 with Germany. It was one of the main seeds for ww2. . Germany was militarily reduced, not demilitarized, and the allies watched Germany rearm. That was the mistake. So.. since we now have established that your wishful "make sure this will not repeat" isn´t an option...
Jump to postHe said, among other things, that he wanted "all of Ukraine". A source described the tone of the phone call as "pessimistic" and "not-so-friendly". Putin said on Russian TV, wait for it, that Russians and Ukrainians are "one people". Pretty lousy basis for ne...
Jump to posthttps://tass.com/politics/1416131 Russian government claim they will not treat westerner fighting in Ukraine according to international humanitarian law, and they also will not treat them like prisoner of war, urge foreign citizens to "think a dozen times" before fight for "Kiev's nat...
Jump to postAny reports on them applying to West Pacific countries yet?
Jump to posthttps://www.news.gov.hk/chi/2022/03/20220303/20220303_175912_881.html?type=category&name=health&tl=t Hong Kong government announced 56k new cases today, roughly 0.8% population (More than double US peak's rate?), with two-third of them presenting symptoms. No sign of peaking so far. Official...
Jump to postIf the USA, UK, France or Germany really want to assasinate Putin... surely they could do it themselves without having to ask Israel for help ? Even though I hold Israel in the highest regard they don't have to be brought into this. Nevertheless, it would be interesting if Israel made a statement a...
Jump to postIt cannot explain why the first officially confirmed case was from a elderly with symptom onset around December 1, while most in the market only become sick toward the end of the December. It also cannot explain why the animals in the market are tested negative for the virus while there are positiv...
Jump to postOn a side note, More articles are being published looking into the Origin of Covid -19 in Wuhan. New articles seem to be pointing back to the Animal Wet Market. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00584-8 Scientists have released three studies that reveal intriguing new clues about how the C...
Jump to posthttps://www.rfi.fr/tw/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B/20220301-%E5%82%B3%E6%B8%AF%E5%BA%9C%E6%9C%88%E4%B8%AD%E4%BB%A5%E5%BE%8C%E5%AF%A6%E8%A1%8C%E5%B0%81%E5%9F%8E%E7%A6%81%E8%B6%B3%E5%BC%B7%E6%AA%A2-%E8%82%A1%E5%B8%82%E8%B3%BC%E7%B3%A7%E5%8F%AF%E8%B1%81%E5%85%8D Hong Kong: Chain shops, post offices, public trans...
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