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turbinetree's JournalAirlines facing what official calls 'deepest crisis ever'
Source: Reuters
BUSINESS NEWS APRIL 1, 2020 / 9:26 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
LONDON (Reuters) - As the novel coronavirus continues to spread, commercial flights have all but stopped. The situation is so dire that the head of the trade group representing the world’s airlines called the last few months “its deepest crisis ever.”
A Reuters analysis of data from FlightAware, which tracks air traffic in real-time, reveals a series of sequential and precipitous declines in flights in four key regions as officials sought to contain the outbreak.
From March 24 to March 30, FlightAware tracked about 280,000 flights, down almost 500,000 from the same week a year earlier.
In late March, the International Air Transport Association estimated lost revenue from the coronavirus will exceed $250 billion in 2020 and urged governments to offer immediate financial support to the industry.
The transport association said today’s crisis is far worse and more widespread than after 9/11, when U.S. airlines lost approximately $19.6 billion in revenue in 2001-2002. After the terrorist attacks, the U.S. government provided $15 billion to airlines in compensation and loan guarantees.
Reporting by Reade Levinson in London. Additional reporting by Tracy Rucinski in Chicago, Laurence Frost in Paris and Jamie Freed in Sydney. Edited by Blake Morrison and Janet Roberts.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-flights/airlines-facing-what-official-calls-deepest-crisis-ever-idUSKBN21J5NC
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Data from FlightAware shows flights by freight and package carriers such as Atlas, Polar, FedEx and UPS arriving in and departing from the United States initially declined during the first week of February 2020. The drop, which correlated to the Hubei Province lockdown, “shows how important China is to the world of international commerce,” said Andrew Charlton, an industry analyst.
Shortly thereafter, however, U.S. cargo flights rebounded to previous levels, the data shows.
Because passenger jets transport about half of all air cargo carried worldwide, the grounding of those planes has increased demand for freighters. In response, some commercial airlines such as American, Delta and Virgin Atlantic are using passenger jets solely for shipping cargo.
My wife's sister just flew down to Florida and there was grand total with a flight crew on AA flight of 8.....................and she used her frequent fliers miles to go ..........................
And in Toilet Paper News......Truck hauling toilet paper catches fire on Texas interstate...........
8 minutes ago
HUTCHINS, Texas (AP) — A tractor-trailer hauling toilet paper crashed and caught fire near Dallas early Wednesday, spilling the hot commodity all over an interstate.
The fire shut down westbound lanes of Interstate 20 near Interstate 45 in Hutchins, the Texas Department of Transportation said.
The driver of the truck is OK, officials said.
The toilet paper appeared to be large rolls typically used in stores, restaurants and other businesses. Texas Department of Transportation officials said the load of toilet paper “burned extensively,” according to Dallas TV station WFAA.
Toilet paper has been in high demand amid the coronavirus pandemic. Producers ramped up production and shipping operations to resupply stores wiped out by consumers buying toilet paper and paper towels in bulk.
https://apnews.com/33e1dc42a573a9d918b6fa54458d99c7
Global stock markets skid as coronavirus infections soar
By STAN CHOE
34 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S stocks joined a worldwide downdraft Wednesday as more signs piled up of the economic and physical pain being caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
The S&P 500 dropped close to 3% in morning trading after President Donald Trump warned the country to brace for “the roughest two or three weeks we’ve ever had in our country.” The White House is projecting that 100,000 to 240,000 people in the U.S. could die from COVID-19. Long-term Treasury yields sank as investors moved into safer investments.
Japanese stocks took some of the world’s heaviest losses after a survey of business sentiment there fell to its worst result in seven years. The Nikkei 225 dropped 4.5%. Britain’s FTSE 100 was down 3.7% after big banks there scrapped dividend payments, part of a worldwide effort by companies and households alike to conserve cash. Germany’s DAX lost 4%.
Stocks worldwide have tumbled this year as the coronavirus pandemic forces economies into what is expected to be a steep, sudden recession. The S&P 500 just closed out its worst quarter since 2008 with a 20% loss.
https://apnews.com/5bbab4a851be2d59c1bacb619e8a1375
After all he the Hoaxer said this just a while ago...................
April 1, rent's due: Many struggle to pay in virus outbreak
By JEFFREY COLLINS
2 hours ago
It’s the first of the month, and everybody knows the rent’s due. For millions of Americans, Wednesday is the first time the landlord is knocking on the door since the coronavirus outbreak turned the economy upside down.
Many of those renters are without jobs - nearly 3.3 million people in the U.S. filed for unemployment the week of March 16, about five times the previous high in 1982. Most state and local governments are putting evictions on pause as states prepare to pay unemployment and the federal government prepares to send stimulus checks. So for most, April’s knock won’t come with a notice to get out.
But a roof over the head is one of the most basic needs in life. Without money for rent, how can the other bills get paid? And while many will get a reprieve in April, eventually the rent comes due, whether or not the restaurant, plant or construction site reopens when the COVID-19 threat lessens.
Here are some of the stories of Americans trying to make the rent, this month and beyond.
https://apnews.com/6665117bf47b47667635b9e6a65b1dd5
Where is the fucking executive order that the orange one likes to sign to suspend all this shit until this shit is over with....................I keep forgetting his grifter son n law is at the slop table............................
Trump just rolled back auto pollution rules -- and that could kill people
By Associated Press -April 1, 2020 10:05 AM
Critics say Trump's latest move to erase Obama's legacy could lead to more illness and death.
The Trump administration's rollback of mileage standards Tuesday marks a win for Americans who like their SUVs and pickup trucks, but the government's own estimates show big costs, too — more Americans dying from air pollution, more climate-damaging tailpipe exhaust, and more expense for drivers at the gas pumps.
The administration's final rule relaxes future mileage standards for years to come, gutting tougher Obama-era standards that were the U.S. government's single most forceful initiative against climate-changing fossil fuel emissions.
"Great news! American families will now be able to buy safer, more affordable, and environmentally friendly cars with our new SAFE VEHICLES RULE," Donald Trump declared in a tweet. "Get rid of those old, unsafe clunkers. Build better and safer American cars and create American jobs. Buy American!"
But Democratic lawmakers and environmental groups condemn the rollback, and years of legal battles are expected, including from California and other states opposed to the rollback.
https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-cars-mileage-standards-rollback-pollution-climate-change-barack-obama-epa/
That's the ticket and deflection during a national/ worldly pandemic just fucking gut auto emissions and in Montana just gut the program from preventing birds from landing near a polluted retention pond................he just doesn't give a shit about anything.....................except himself and libertarian lackeys getting on some podium to massage his ego.................
Again, November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough..................................
Trump's Acquittal Is Making the Pandemic Worse
The Editorial Board
He was tried for putting his interests above the nation’s. Why stop now?
John Stoehr
There’s a fake argument circulating that goes something like this. The president isn’t to blame for the coronavirus pandemic that has now killed more Americans than were murdered on Sept. 11, 2001. Instead, the Democrats are to blame. They distracted Donald Trump with their pointless impeachment and failed attempt to remove him.
The “lost month,” as the Times called it, wasn’t the result of indifference, paranoia and/or dereliction of duty on the part of the chief executive but instead the result of petty partisanship and senseless hate of a president fighting for the American people.
Or something like that. It’s hard to say. These talking points are never well-thought. Just speaking them, as if they were spells and incantations, is what matters to the sycophants, golems and ghouls the president enjoys surrounding himself with.
In any case, we know the truth.
US intelligence officials briefed Trump in early January, warning that a contagion was coming the likes of which we have never seen before. The president did nothing. Senators from both parties were briefed in early February. They urged Trump to ask for emergency funding to counteract COVID-19’s spread. The president did nothing.
https://stoehr.substack.com/p/943fb0e7-546a-4603-b8cf-2e6277be8bce
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Yes, Trump will block the states from getting coronavirus testing in order to keep the national number of dead artificially low. Yes, that’s a terrible thing to presume of one’s president, but seriously. What did you expect? Is any of this all that surprising?
This is the same president who ordered the confiscation of babies from immigrant mothers; who banned Muslims from entering the US from certain countries; who attacked civil liberties and undermined impartial justice; who inspired acts of antisemitism, racism and mass murder; who stole daily from public coffers; and who got away with treason, complaining all the while that he doesn’t get enough credit.
The only people left in America capable of surprise are those who voted for his promise to punish people for the fun it. The only people left in America capable of surprise are those who don’t think it’s fun anymore, not when they are getting punished. They might say what a Trump voter said about a year ago: “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
Don’t think Trump is in trouble with his base, though. It’s as masochistic as it is sadistic. The GOP itself has a high tolerance for high frequency death, even if Republicans are among the dead. After all, gun massacres happen in red states, too. Instead of tightening their gun laws, however, they seek to loosen them more.
—John Stoehr
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.....................
Of Course Diamond And Silk Are Peddling Viral Disinformation
Politics 3/31/20 8:18am Read time: 1 minute
Lying for Trump is their business model.
By Frances Langum
Diamond and Silk are more interested in grifting from gullible white people than in telling truth that might save lives.
Here they are promoting the lie told often on Fox in the past two months, that the pandemic is being inflated by mainstream media to hurt Donald Trump.
They don't believe the numbers because numbers don't grow that way. (Diamond and Silk don't understand the term, "exponentially."
Transcript via Media Matters:
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/03/course-diamond-and-silk-are-peddling-covid
First and foremost which thread platform are they using..................and why are they being given this platform to spew this shit...............people are fucking dying..................this is no fucking HOAX...............you think the media is doing exactly what...........................
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