stivi
Well-Known Member
morning,
last night's news has fallen like a bomb here. rather than creating a safe flight corridor between the balearics and the UK, the UK have added our islands to the no travel recommendation list instead. the local sentiment here is of absolute incredulity and impotence. here in ibiza, we've currently got four covid patients in hospital. the last casualty because of covid is over three months ago (!). together with formentera we've got 17 active covid cases (so 13 of them are either without any symptoms or very mild ones only). we've not had any spike in numbers in weeks. the clubs aren't open, wearing a mask is compulsory and the government is doing everything they can to keep the balearics as safe as they have been since we've flattened the curve.
we understand talks about a safe flight corridor are still ongoing and maybe this decision gets reverted at some point, but for now airlines are already cancelling their flights between the UK and balearics in what's our most important month of the year. UK tourism makes up 40% of the balearics total tourism IIRC and thus you can probably imagine the frustration. unless we get that air bridge done very quickly, this mini season we just started this year might be over very soon. sorry I can't spin a positive message on this right now!
last night's news has fallen like a bomb here. rather than creating a safe flight corridor between the balearics and the UK, the UK have added our islands to the no travel recommendation list instead. the local sentiment here is of absolute incredulity and impotence. here in ibiza, we've currently got four covid patients in hospital. the last casualty because of covid is over three months ago (!). together with formentera we've got 17 active covid cases (so 13 of them are either without any symptoms or very mild ones only). we've not had any spike in numbers in weeks. the clubs aren't open, wearing a mask is compulsory and the government is doing everything they can to keep the balearics as safe as they have been since we've flattened the curve.
we understand talks about a safe flight corridor are still ongoing and maybe this decision gets reverted at some point, but for now airlines are already cancelling their flights between the UK and balearics in what's our most important month of the year. UK tourism makes up 40% of the balearics total tourism IIRC and thus you can probably imagine the frustration. unless we get that air bridge done very quickly, this mini season we just started this year might be over very soon. sorry I can't spin a positive message on this right now!