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Capping passenger numbers. aer lingus has said there was unexpectedly high demand on the day those pictures were taken and that its now urgently reviewing its procedures on board, but others in the industry have warned that, on a plane, social distancing is basically impossible. we dont believe social distancing on aircraft actually works, and there are two reasons for that. one of which is the obvious economic one. the second of which is around the air conditioning systems on aeroplanes which r...

Capping passenger numbers. aer lingus has said there was unexpectedly high demand on the day those pictures were taken and that its now urgently reviewing its procedures on board, but others in the industry have warned that, on a plane, social distancing is basically impossible. we dont believe social distancing on aircraft actually works, and there are two reasons for that. one of which is the obvious economic one. the second of which is around the air conditioning systems on aeroplanes which r...

The whole purpose of having a safe zone of travel would be so that you wouldnt have to have a quarantine attached. i think everyone would acknowledge it would be prohibitive, people wouldnt travel if they had to stay on either side in quarantine for a two—week period and had to do the same again when you return. the irish airline, aer lingus, says it is reviewing procedures on its belfast to london flights, following a claim it is not observing social—distancing measures. one passenger, sean...

Recycling air within the cabin. that simply defeats the purpose of social distancing. the bbc has also heard from one member of british airways cabin crew that told us ba are also skim operating some short flights at capacity. as these images are from paris to madrid today show, other airlines are similarly flying with full cabins. the international air transport association has recommended satiate all mac safety measures such as mask, but says limiting passenger numbers would push upstairs. neu...

Hour. and the blunt reality is that as project restart gets under way, there is going to be an awful lot of people who see pictures like that and think, well, i simply dont want anything to do with flying right now, thank you very much. and whatever the airlines, the airports do, it seems to be all about making us do, it seems to be all about making us feel better rather than actually doing much to prevent the spread of coronavirus. people on that flight talked about the queues happening as norm...

Are not earning any money. tom, thank you very much. and staying with airlines... aer lingus — which operates daily flights between belfast and london — has announced it will put on five more flights a week, after images of a nearly full plane emerged yesterday. aer linguss reaction raises some serious questions about how airlines are going to protect their passengers as the country emerges from lockdown in the coming weeks. heres our ireland correspondent emma va rdy. it was these pictures ...

And airports are suddenly in a very different era. if theres a vaccine or people feel comfortable about flying, then they will do. there will be a percentage of the population that are quite happy to jump on an aeroplane. but i think a proportion of the people who are not and because of the hassle through the airports, its going to be momentous. bailing out an airline part owned by a billionaire is potentially toxic. so the government has insisted that virgin atlantic finds new investors before ...

We dont believe social distancing on aircraft actually works, and there are two reasons for that. one of which is the obvious economic one. the second of which is around the air conditioning systems on aeroplanes, which rely, in part, on recycling air within the cabin. that simply defeats the purpose of social distancing. the bbc has also heard from one member of british airways cabin crew who told us ba are also still operating some short—haul flights at capacity. and as these images from par...

Particularly in the north and east. cool in the north on saturday. by sunday a dramatic drop in the temperatures for all of us. this is bbc news. im ben brown. the headlines: more than 30,000 people in the uk have now died in the coronavirus pandemic. the number of deaths in care homes continues to rise. criticism of the uks initial testing procedures from its own chief scientific adviser. i think if wed managed to ramp testing capacity quicker it would have been beneficial. for all sorts of rea...

Name or address if you want the testing kit to be dropped off, otherwise you can manually book yourself a test. only then do i say i may have got this, here is my name and address. if there are problems of data privacy, this app is not pa rt of data privacy, this app is not part of that and the critical point here is that this is a next your layer of protection. we had to get rid of this virus and suppress it, and the way we will do that is by using the testing, tracing and tracking service we h...