A very SAD day for a 100 years old industry of AVIATION. Virgin fires more than 3,000 people including 600 Pilots.- Virgin Australia files for Bankruptcy.-Thai Airways files bankruptcy.- Air Mauritius goes into Administration.- South African Airways Bankrupt. - Finnair returns 12 planes and lays off 2,400 people. - YOU grounds 22 planes and fires 4,100 people.- Ryanair grounds 113 planes and gets rid of 900 pilots for the moment, 450 more in the coming months.- Norwegian completely stops its long-haul activity!!! The 787s are returned to the lessors.- SAS returns 14 planes and fires 520 pilots... The Scandinavian states are studying a plan to liquidate Norwegian and SAS to rebuild a new company from their ashes.- Etihad cancels 18 orders for A350, grounds 10 A380 and 10 Boeing 787. Lays off 720 staff.- Emirates grounds 38 A380s and cancels all orders for the Boeing 777x (150 aircraft, the largest order for this type). They "invite" all employees over 56 to retire - Wizzair returns 32 A320s and lays off 1,200 people, including 200 pilots, another wave of 430 layoffs planned in the coming months. Remaining employees will see their wages reduced by 30%.- IAG (British Airways’ parent company) abandons the takeover of Air Europa (and will pay €40 million compensation for that).- IAG (Iberia) grounds 56 planes.- IAG (British Airways) grounds 34 planes. Everyone over 58 to retire.- Luxair reduces its fleet by 50% (and associated redundancies)- CSA abolishes its long-haul sector and keeps only 5 medium-haul aircraft.- Eurowings goes into Bankruptcy- Brussels Airline reduces its fleet by 50% (and associated redundancies).- Lufthansa plans to ground 72 aircraft (in 2 instalments).- Hop is studying the possibility of reducing fleet and staff by 50%.Additional info:Currently, 60 new aircraft stored at Airbus with no buyers in sight (order cancellations) including 18 A350s.They *forecast a minimum of 8,000 grounded planes by September*. With an average of 5.8 crews per plane (medium and long haul combined), that would make more than 90,000 unemployed pilots worldwideThe Air Transport Industry is on Life Support !This will have a major impact on our lifestyle ...the worst is yet to be witnessed...
Laut Somboon Uthaiwiankul, Sekretär von House Speaker Chuan Leekpai, werden mehr als 100 ehemalige und amtierende Abgeordnete dafür verantwortlich gemacht, dass Nok Air Verluste in Höhe von 3,5 Millionen Baht für Flüge verursacht hat, die sie gebucht haben, aber nie erschienen sind.
Herr Wutthiphum sagte, Nok Air habe derzeit nicht die Absicht, seine Belegschaft oder seinen Betrieb zu verkleinern, und werde der Flotte bis Ende dieses Jahres zwei neue Boeing 737-800 mit 189 Sitzen hinzufügen.
fit 2 fly
Ein Bekannter von uns war auf diesem Flug, schon der Check In dauerte Stunden. Man muss vorher auch noch eine Fit to fly Untersuchung machen, kostet extra. Geschätzt 90% der Passagiere waren Farang mit Frau, insgesamt von Abfahrt bei uns in Deutschland bis zur Ankunft im Quarantäne Hotel war der Bekannte 42 Stunden unterwegs.