Peter wrote:
I feel really sorry for Greece, which is going to get heavily infected now.
Depends whether they will let just about anyone in or whether they will differentiate between countries with less people infected and who have measures on their side.
Pray for Herd Immunity
For that, you are gonna pray for a long time – a few months of the thing going around – and about 1% of Greece will die.
Now visualise the refugee camps in Lesbos… admittedly almost everybody there is young and healthy, fortunately.
Mooney_Driver wrote:
Depends whether they will let just about anyone in or whether they will differentiate between countries with less people infected and who have measures on their side.
Exactly. The visitors who will come in are only from countries categorized as in same or lower level of epidemic transfer/spread index (or whatever its called) with Greece.
The countries are already decided and published in news … but @Peter I think we’re getting a bit off topic here from the subject of this thread.
petakas wrote:
The countries are already decided and published in news
Where? Would be good to know.
petakas wrote:
From July 1st tourist international flights to Greece will start with flocks of airliners flying in.
Id like to know how flying commercial is going to work. Departure/Arrive procedure, testing?
In January, my GF booked airline tickets/hotel for a week in Corfu in September- literally our first holiday in years.
The irony is that we usually fly GA somewhere as our holiday, the first time we try commercial, all this happens…
Regards, SD..
This is the plan
https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/05/21/greece-announces-restart-tourism-plan/
From what I heard in the news they will be doing the simple test that gives quick result (within 1~2 hours) picking people on arrival in random.
a never ending story …
Letter from AOPA to FRAPORT’s CEO.
https://www.aopa.gr/en/enimerosi/energeies-tis-aora-ellas/999-fraport-greece-general-aviation
Unfortunately typical activism by AOPA w/o any sense!
They write themselves that the problem is not Fraport but that the conditions of the concession set by the Greek government require maximizing the per movement revenue.
What should Fraport do? Breach its concession to do something good for a handful of small GA planes?
It’s unfortunately quite characteristic for the behavior of AOPA in Europe in recent years: They broadly fail to have any impact on behalf of pilots and aircraft owners in many areas (closure of small airfields, more instrument approaches, ADSB data protection, (drone) airspace restrictions, etc.) because they obviously do not have sufficient access to governments, EU, etc. and therefore they are performing largely useless but highly visible initiatives…