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Ha ha, definitely need a few good holidays this year.
Nice little end of day boost, bodes well for tomorrow.
Oh dear bit too much positivity here. Time for filibusting blue to talk to himself about paint for three pages.
This is definitely good news. It shows that forward bookings already looking good.
Coming back to UK will be easier but we are still waiting for all countries to follow suit. Going out to milan last minute for work was an absolute nightmare. I got my rapid antigen test results by email literally as I was speaking to the lady for check in. I had had to get off at Hatton cross one stop early to find a hotel carpark on the motorway to take the test. Running along the motor way to catch buses from and to terminal 5 was utterly stressful and I got to the plane with about 15mins spare but fully stressed and sweating.
For balance though, I dont think it's a masterclass in comms. What strikes me as a bit weird is that they appear to be focussing on service related issues- which doesnt appear to be a theme when it comes to BA. I haven't seen much evidence throughout the pandemic to suggest people are upset about sandwiches and delays. I flew BA about 6 times during pandemic and people were just happy to be on a plane.
I imagine it is trying to appeal to the luxury traveller who expects posh nosh and polite eye candy.
Nice to see any comms coming out of BA. It's strikes a serious tone absent of hyperbole. To be honest a bullish statement about how everything is going great would have been ludicrous at this point and probably received with bemusement and ridicule. It's a bruised and battered behemoth ripe to recover and flourish with the correct leadership.
That's what I see in this statement, a serious business strategy and optimism. No hyperbole.
- always online at same time, even weekends
- fordm , bobbins regularly respond with lengthy responses to Blues incredibly boring essays - very unlikely real people would do this.
- All three - flawless English, zero spelling mistakes, perfect post formatting- this indicates all three laptop/PC posting in a quiet dedicated environment. Normal posters with lives use acronyms, spelling mistakes because they post from phones and busy work environments.
- all three responded to me immediately, all three tried to humiliate me with unsolicited straw man arguments and triumphantly self celebrated doing so
- all three responded indignantly - like a rich old white man
- all three implied I was infantile, as an insult- a bizarre and incredibly ineffectual insult.
- all three posters use same post format and writing style.
- all three accused me of ' attacking' them indignantly. It wouldn't be an attack unless it was true. Ford and Bobbins wouldn't be personally offended for saying that Blue is boring.
Blue its embarrassing. I second hand cringe that a grown up would do this.
Ha ha, sund, OMG I need to be a little bit LESS honest online. You were travelling at the same time, that's crazy. I was thinking about the bloody 5G as we landed because it seemed to be foggy all the way down, mulling the irony of down playing 5G issues online and then dying in a fireball because someone wanted to stream Netflix.
With IAG 6% up this morning and more good news on the horizon. Can I just take a second to highlight that last week 'Oracle' popped in to intimate that he had some insider trader knowledge that would lead this stock to fall dramatically in one of his posts. Later going on to pull out figures like 130 from his behind.
These characters have names designed at first glance to make you think they might actually know what they are talking about. When someone says unequivocally that they 'know' some information that will see the stock move, despite all logical arguments telling me the contrary it is difficult not to take then seriously. Of I never do. If I had sold when Oracle had said - 'Tuesday' morning. I would have sold near bottom and missed the up tick.
Similarly to aimmasters past calls.
Can we all agree that only a genuinely awful person would act this way for their own short term gains.
I'm on ba570 to linate. It is late boarding because it's so busy. I got lucky with one space beside me and a window seat. But bloody hell the test 2ad awful. Had to get a bus to Hatton cross to a hotel carpark to do the test with 1.5 hrs to spare. Got to heathrow and the woman wouldn't let me board without negative result then the email just came through as I was about to give up. Big stress. But now chilling and thinking about a beer. BA flight 570 is packed!
Omg, I'm having to go to Milan last minute for work. Having to go to Hatton cross for a quick turnaround test. Did they put it at the airport? No they put it in a hotel car park one stop b2fore the airport. I have to get a bus to the hotel. How incredibly annoying I'm living the nightmare right now. The quicker the pre departure test go the better.
There appears to be pressure from US fed decision. Mixed with jitters from war talk. In normal times a little dust up with putin would be news but not market sinking. The problem is uncertainty. China is watching and has its eyes on taiwan - two big threats to peace. Any problem with china, even cold war would bring economic disaster to the whole world. There is already talks of big lingering debt problems in China. Plus we are just coming out of pandemic. Literally anything that isn't a sign of improvement is causing jitters because of these big uncertainties.
The whole world was closed for two years. How we havnt had a recession is beyond me.
The crazy caps lock poster might have a point about Ford and big blue being the same person. Both have used Scottish colloqulisms recently - although they are both conscious to tone down more obvious phrases so it could be one of those posh areas that sound a bit english.
Ford will often crop up on most of blues posts to agree with them.
The biggest tell was Ford quoting one of Blues posts as a reference. He tried to play it off by saying 'I think blue posted something about....' which sounded like an attempt at being vague and nonchalant but then went on to outline the exact points made in one of blues posts. Sorry but no one cares enough about opinions on a little board to remember them amongst the thousands and quote them back to other posters. Only the author cares enough to remember specific points made and attributing them.
I might be wrong but it is certainly seeming more likely the more I read.
The thing about 'Oracle' and 'aimmaster' is that neither are neither. Both have made similar calls before with very specific information designed to look like insider info. My bet is they are the same person or working for the same people. It's about starting rumours. I have known neither of these people to make any right calls. If I had listened to any of their previous calls I would have lost a lot of money.
I'm holding till we get to 2.00.
I can wait at least a year to keep that money in.
I'm betting that US will not rollover and Putin doesnt actually want a painful ground invasion which will economically cripple his country. US cant afford to roll over otherwise inviting china to be new number 1 bully.
Putin as always is punching way above his weight to retain popularity at home.