Why Are Flights From Italy And China Still Arriving?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-flights-from-italy-iran-and-china-still-landing-3v7363rxr

[jno]

bringing Britons home?

[ToraToraTora]

fair enough if that's the case.

[Zacs-Master]

Cargo flights as well. If you did Twitter you’d be able to follow ‘flight radar’ who post regular updates.

[ToraToraTora]

you don't need twitter for flight radar
https://www.flightradar24.com/

[ToraToraTora]

anyway if it's not plane loads of potentially infected people then that's a relief.

[jno]

237SJ said the other day that most flights are carrying people home (to wherever, which would explain planes overhead that aren't landing in Britain). Also freight flights, which are carrying on much as normal.

The Times blurs the issue a little by calling them "travellers", sort of implying they're tourists; it's not necessarily so.

[jno]

well, I suppose they are potentially infected people unless they've been locked in a hotel room for a week. But they should be brought home none the less, just as potentially infected tourists here should be taken to their own homes for their own countries to deal with. Not because UK facilities are better or worse than others, but because it's hard to be sick abroad.

[Zacs-Master]

Their twitter feed gives commentary on what certain flights are doing, Tora, which the website doesn’t. I’ve posted links to FR several times in the past.

[ToraToraTora]

ok what's going on here then?
https://ibb.co/yq8GRfw
How are private flights being handled?

[Zacs-Master]

Private jet companies have seen a large upturn in business. It’s a weak link in the defences but as we know, money talks.

[Gromit]

There are a lot of private jets still buzzing about coming from And going to Europe.

A 787 Dreamliner has just Landed atHeathrow from the US, a country with TWICE the number of Coronavirus cases than China.

[Zacs-Master]

The number of flights still operating to the US and internally is a very graphic demonstration of their lax attitude to the pandemic.

[Gromit]

Tora,

Is that the one over Cornwall at the moment?
It is just just Flying around in circles.

[ToraToraTora]

gromit you can see where it is in the picture, it's around London.

[Zacs-Master]

Two of them doing the same thing. I suspect they may be trying to land at Exeter and Exeter are saying ‘no’.

[ToraToraTora]

it's just that no details are published, I'd have thought that even private flights would have to provide origin etc? Probably just not on the public site like flightradar.

[Prudie]

Lots of planes parked at Bournemouth airport at the moment, quite a sight if you were actually allowed to go and look at it!!
https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/18343433.coronavirus-planes-store-bournemouth-airport/

[Gromit]

Tora,
Take a look at this one.

https://ibb.co/NpWPNSn

[Zacs-Master]

Grom, the one just in front did the same thing. They’re both identical aircraft. Could be they’re doing some sort of test flights?

[ToraToraTora]

gromit, the flight number of the one I was talking about was C25M, as in the picture at 10:17. that one is FA20. I can't find C25M now so I guess it's landed, probably at London City.