TSA Numbers
10-16-2020, 06:42 AM
#1021
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Encouraging numbers out of China regarding domestic flights.
https://skift.com/2020/10/15/chinas-...N_RQ5NmBYuf2I4
https://skift.com/2020/10/15/chinas-...N_RQ5NmBYuf2I4
10-16-2020, 06:43 AM
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Originally Posted by aeroengineer
As alluded to earlier we didn’t have thousands of troops carrying it back an forth across the ocean after 1918. Worldwide mobility especially via air travel was a long way in the future.
10-16-2020, 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted by WhiskeyDelta
Spring break but in the fall.
Looking back at May predictions, we are definitely worse than the most pessimistic numbers, but the more I talk to non-aviation folks, the more I hear “I am itching to travel next year, I’ve got 2, 3, 4 trips planned”. Every friend who cancelled a 2020 trip says they’re doing it in 2021 along with other plans. People are very eager to get traveling, and with remote work I know folks who want to travel and work on the road.
To sum it up, it’s worse than I expected, but somehow I have hope.
10-16-2020, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
So what? It apparently started in China and was in Kansas within weeks. It was of avian origin and quite possibly avian carried. WWI troopships cruised at - at a maximum - 20 knots, even slower as they approached Kansas. I don’t get your point frankly.
10-16-2020, 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by aeroengineer
All I'm saying is containing viruses is harder today with a highly mobil society. Yes troop ships were slow but often packed which would allow spreading to occur among the troops over the length of the crossing. Packed trains overland also allowed spread. I actually have a relative who caught and survived polio in the early 50s and the best she could guess is she caught on a train from California back to Texas...Apologies if I came across horsey.
Had the R0 been less than one, the Spanish Flu would have died out rather than propagating. But undoubtedly troopships did facilitate the spread, just as did the densely populated cities, troop trains, etc. The more population dense areas you have, the more difficult to control any airborne spread. I just don’t think that necessarily means that now with faster transportation we will necessarily see more pandemics. It’s possible, I suppose, but commercial jet travel has been around for sixty years now and this is the first pandemic this serious that we have seen.
10-16-2020, 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by ACEssXfer
In September? Guess it must be different now. I used to go back to school anywhere from sep 1-10. There were never any breaks until Thanksgiving.
My schools go back mid-August so fall break comes first half of October.
10-16-2020, 09:42 AM
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Yeah, colleges have a lot more breaks built in for some reason. Used to be Thanksgiving and Spring Break and that was it (other than Christmas and summer between semesters). But with how much more sensitive kids are these days more breaks are needed.
10-16-2020, 12:44 PM
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My kids' schools start back in mid-late July (...yeah...) but have two weeks for fall break in a normal year, and also have two weeks for spring break with the school year wrapping the last week of May.
Due to COVID, each break is "only" one week.
When I was a kid, fall break was I think a three or maybe four day weekend and we had one week for spring break.
Due to COVID, each break is "only" one week.
When I was a kid, fall break was I think a three or maybe four day weekend and we had one week for spring break.
10-16-2020, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by BoilerUP
My kids' schools start back in mid-late July (...yeah...) but have two weeks for fall break in a normal year, and also have two weeks for spring break with the school year wrapping the last week of May.
Due to COVID, each break is "only" one week.
When I was a kid, fall break was I think a three or maybe four day weekend and we had one week for spring break.
Due to COVID, each break is "only" one week.
When I was a kid, fall break was I think a three or maybe four day weekend and we had one week for spring break.
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