Airbus: This Is 'Gravest Crisis The Aerospace Industry Has Ever Known'

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Source: Talking Points Memo

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/airbus-this-is-gravest-crisis-the-aerospace-industry-has-ever-known

By ANGELA CHARLTON
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April 29, 2020 9:39 a.m.

PARIS (AP) — Airbus says the aviation industry’s unprecedented troubles are just beginning.

The European manufacturing giant reported 481 million euros ($515 million) in losses in the first quarter, put thousands of workers on furlough and sought billions in loans to survive the coronavirus crisis. And its CEO said Wednesday it’s still at an “early stage.”

Even after virus-related travel restrictions eventually ease, Chief Executive Guillaume Faury acknowledged it will take a long time to persuade customers to get back on planes. Just how long, he can’t predict.

“We are in the gravest crisis the aerospace industry has ever known,” Faury said. “Now we need to work as an industry to restore passenger confidence in air travel as we learn to coexist with this pandemic.”

Images shared online of packed planes and maskless, elbow-to-elbow passengers on U.S. flights – despite virus protection guidelines – have worried travelers and airline unions alike. International travel restrictions, meanwhile, have grounded thousands of planes worldwide.



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Flight Attendants Sound Alarm Over Lack Of COVID-19 Protections

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[lark]

1. We have really good friends in NZ we want to visit.

Won't be going there until there is a vaccine, even though we have a place to stay for up to a month for free. Don't trust airlines one bit to keep us safe, they are way too predatory and only care about their profits.

[gab13by13]

2. It's amazing that Jet Blue

is the only airline that requires masks. I can't go in my grocery store without a mask but I can sit in a middle seat on an airplane without one.

[lark]

5. Stupid airlines, this is why I don't trust them & won't fly until we can get vaccinated.

I'm planning little vacations we can drive to, in my mind these days. Figure we won't be traveling on planes for a long time and there's a lot of America we haven't seen before so hoping that car travelling might be safe in the middle of summer - hopefully. Our plans, however, unlike the governments, will be 100% based on the numbers. We're hoping to have a large family get together early in June, but if the numbers are not way down, this too will be postponed. It was hard having a birthday yesterday and couldn't see my children - I miss them so much.

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3. Note to Airbus: It ain't never going back to what it used to be.

[Initech]

4. It will.

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The virus will eventually go away. Even the worst pandemics only have a limited shelf life, whether it's one year or three. It's going to take a while to rebuild after it does. But to say we're never going back to normal to me, just doesn't sound right.

But when the virus does finally go away, we will need to build a better society to protect us from the next outbreak.

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9. I'm referring to airline traffic in general. It will never go back to the levels it was pre-corona.

[Initech]

10. That also will rebound.

It might reach pre-Corona levels again, but it's going to be a very long, slow and painful rebuilding process. Just like rebuilding much of the economy will. We're not just going to jump in the deep end and everything is going to be back to normal. We will start in the shallow end and start working our way back slowly.

People want to travel and get back to doing the things we were going to do pre-Corona. And we will eventually. Even the worst pandemics in history have only had a limited shelf life. This too, shall pass.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. I dare say all industry is suffering. Not just one industry. And the flight attendents should ...

get protection. I don't understand the entire industry when they know that their workers are going to be exposed to a whole slew of stuff from travelers. It's the nature of their industry.

Just wait, rump will declare the industry a critical industry and before you know it, these workers will be forced to work, regardless of the conditions they find themselves in. Conditions that may cause illness or death in some cases.

Many jurisdictions are getting to the point that they have a very wary view of tourists, travelers popping up in their jurisdictions all of a sudden, w/o being in a self imposed quarantine first. They got to be careful about slamming the doors shut, because often times, it's not the tourists being sick spreading the CV, it's residents. In Hawaii, out of the first 30+ travelers in/out of the Hawaiian Islands, w/ the CV, almost all of them were Hawaiian residents returning. They were the ones bringing the CV back home. A failure of the trump administration in not immediately acting and stopping the spread of the CV.

So you have resistance on the ground against such travelers, and also in the air. I'm sure that this feeling/backlash is going to spread everywhere (against travelers and such). And other industries have been suffering too. Truckers have been undergoing such negative feelings with people not allowing the truckers in after their deliveries to use the rest rooms, etc. (because of the CV fear). Tribal instincts are going to kick in, and override what our worthless president will claim needs to be done (not that anyone is listening to him anyways).

[DanieRains]

7. Once You Start Paying For Sequestration With Your Airline Ticket I Will Feel Better About Airlines

Jets spew carbon like there is no tomorrow. We all love flying since our kids will have to pay for the carbon with their lives.

Sorry, I want to go "places" too, but at what REAL COST?

Sequestration only costs $1 a gallon of fuel.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05357-w

[Mosby]

8. It's a great time to nationalize the airline industry. nt.