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Discussion in 'Travel Tips and Advice' started by Heathen, Oct 20, 2020.

  1. Heathen
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    Heathen Active Member

    Im at a bit of a loose end this morning whilst waiting for the insurance assesor to come out, so i thought i would visit a few online Travel Agencies, the first one i clicked on to was Philippine Island Connections more commonly known as PIC this is what i got https://www.pic-uk.com/ so sorry to have read this, i have used them a few times over the years and got a good service everytime, I guess with very few flights operating and the Covid situation it should not have been a surprise.
    I dont think i will look any further STA have also ceased trading.. https://www.abta.com/news/sta-travel-limited-ceases-trading-advice-customers
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  2. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    Wait till the major airlines start folding, Air France, KLM and the likes, it's not beyond the bounds of possibility.

    I've never used a travel agent but it is sad to hear of these companies shutting.
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  3. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Won't the airlines start mothballing planes?

    The oil industry has run into difficulties on occasions and oil rigs were towed into harbours and ports to be looked after by skeleton staff until the crisis receded.
  4. oss
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    Forty percent of the worlds aircraft in service at airlines are leased, I don't know what notice they have to give to break the lease but I am sure there will be penalties of some kind.

    Mothballing aircraft is probably not cheap either, in Europe airlines are parking up their fleets all over the place the problem here is we don't have the desert weather or locations to preserve them really well.

    I guess some airlines might mothball the aircraft they own outright first if their lease agreements for other planes costs a lot to get out of, but even then they are going to have maintenance costs, these things are not designed to sit on the tarmac.

    https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200415-where-are-all-the-unused-planes-right-now
  5. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    The goalposts (life getting back to normal) may start moving too.

    These are concerning times for airlines for sure.
  6. Anon220806
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    Anon220806 Well-Known Member

    With oil rig mothballing there are two types. One is where the rigs are mothballed in such a way that they are not run in anyway (cold stacking) and in such instances they deteriorate to a point of being unusable. On the other hand if the rig equipment is used to turn it over regularly then it keeps it in working condition. So in other words to render planes useable from mothballing they need maintenance crews to keep them in shape.

    I have been on rigs after mothballing and they come out of mothballing with inherent problems.

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  7. oss
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    Not my picture, this was one of the few creative commons licenced photos I could find, I have a couple of my own but don't have them online.

    Rigs parked up in the Cromarty Firth

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    Cromarty Firth Oil Rigs
    by b k, on Flickr
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  8. Anon220806
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    Yes and I should have added, that typically once mothballed there are always a portion of rigs that never work again, such is the nature of mothballing.

    No doubt planes are not exactly the same but am sure there are similarities when it comes to mothballing.
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  9. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Superb photo, Jim :like:
    Black and White really does add to the mood.
    Unless of course it was an overcast miserable weather day up in the land of fish suppers, haggis and pints of "heavy" :)

    That photo really does evoke so many memories of the days when I used to regularly climb the derricks to install aerials (antennae in USA) and navigate them onto location after dropping all the anchors before tension was applied. Happy days :)
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    Not mine Mike, I searched my Flickr contacts for a chap that I know who has wonderful pictures of the Cromarty Firth but I couldn't find them, so this was a general Flickr search, the attribution link is at the bottom as the guy published it under creative commons licencing which requires attribution.

    The specific licence is 'Attibution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic'
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  11. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Ah, I missed the Flickr and his initials BK.
    He is a Pro from New Jersey and he has a very nice portfolio :)
    Good to see that you gave him "appropriate credit" :like:
  12. Anon220806
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    I was once in Cromarty on a rig, rigging up a measuring device to the top of the Derrick (crown) when two RAF jets thundered down the Cromarty. Each were below me. :eek:
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  13. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    With the reassuring thought that if there was a gas leak, you would be the last one to get off alive :eek::lol::lol:
  14. Anon220806
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    Anon220806 Well-Known Member

    Ah. This was on a rig parked in the Cromarty getting ready to be demobilised. But...they do have a “geronimo” line that you can slide down to make a quick escape in such a situation.

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