Airplanes Up There

[Bazile]

I've just looked at Flightradar and it's showing tons of aircraft up there

How come isn't there suppose to be a massive reduction in flights ?

Or am I looking at the site incorrectly

[Zacs-Master]

Many of them are cargo planes. If you switch on the ‘airline identifier’ it will show you that many of them are DHL etc etc. Still a surprising number of passenger planes tho.

[Bobbisox1]

I’d say it’s pretty busy over Europe Baz

https://ibb.co/YT9RJwy

[zebo]

I looked at it a couple of days ago and the majority were Fed Ex and the like, the few passenger flights may dry up if Donny's edict comes into being though!
Some of the military aircraft leaving the RAF bases in the Wiltshire region have some very interesting tracks, like a child's squiggle!

[fiction-factory]

If you'd looked 3 months ago FlightRadar was full of planes and when I first saw it I wondered how they managed to keep the skies safe. The images are misleading though because of scale.
Yes, most are cargo plus there a few repatriation flights in and out.

[Buenchico]

Please see this thread, Baz:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Business-and-Finance/Question1704198.html
(In particular, check out my link to the BBC News site)

[Bazile]

If you switch on the ‘airline identifier’ it will show you that many of them are DHL etc etc.

'airline identifier '

Where is that ?

I'm on my mobile and I click on an airplane
Is that what you mean , zacs?

[Zacs-Master]

Go into settings (the cog symbol) and click ‘logo’.

[Bazile]

I can't see anything in settings that says logo

Thanks anyway

[Zacs-Master]

It's a box down at the bottom of the screen when you're in settings

[gollob]

Yesterday around 11.00 there were only 2 passenger planes between east Anglia and Europe. I am quite surprised how many passenger planes are still flying between USA and Europe. Why would any EU country accept flights from New York

[Zacs-Master]

Strange ain’t it! It goes against all the recommended distancing / travel advice.

[237SJ]

Click on the Heathrow area. It used to appear as a mass of yellow - now there is nothing. Quite shocking.

[smurfchops]

Apparently 15,000 people a day flying into UK. And no one being tested, they just walk straight through. Nothing is done as usual.

[Hopkirk]

I'm well familiar with Flightradar24, and believe me there are hardly any aircraft compared with normal.

There are probably more cargo flights than usual, as so much cargo normally goes in the belly of passenger flights.

[237SJ]

And there aren't 15000 people per day flying into the UK

[sherrardk]

That’s an interesting site - what does ‘tracker’ mean as a call sign and why does one have not call sign’?

[albaqwerty]

there's an FA20 out of Teeside which is making a pretty track on the radar.

Followed an IAS Medical last night from Darlington to N/A destination.
Landed on Lower Lough Erne. Quite a distance to go if a medical emergency :-(

[fiction-factory]

Those flying into UK are generally Brits being brought home.

When to test is an issue but is complicated. Temperature checks are not too reliable and don't identify non/pre-symptomatic cases who may be carrying the virus. Test results may take 2-3 days to come back so we'd need to quarantine them all until the results are back or at least require them to leave contact details.

Tests should be done before they fly- maybe a few days before - since a passenger X who gets on with the virus could infect others on the plane but those who get infected by X won't show up in tests on landing as it can take a few days to show.

In general these people are coming from countries where the incidence of infection is lower than ours, so they are not high risk.

As long as these Brits follow social distancing when they return like the rest of us they are no different to us.

These are the arguments the scientists have used.

The belt and braces approach is to quarantine all of them on landing for 2 weeks in a hotel Single room, food left at the door)

We could test on

[237SJ]

^ Not all passengers are Brits returning home. A lot of them are Europeans in transit through the UK

[fiction-factory]

Yes, I said "generally they are Brits"
I accept this is a difficult issue and given the number of times it gets asked maybe the government should do something just to be seen to be doing something. But what should they do - e.g do we quarantine everyone in hotel rooms and keep testing until we are sure they are safe and then ask them to sign an agreement to follow social distancing?