Businesses most vulnerable in the pandemic.

We didn't book a holiday this year so far, prices were ridiculous (TUI wanted over 4k for a week in Minorca!) Plus my bonus at work isn't going to be great after a poor year for the business last year.

Just checked now and the price TUI want has more than halved since early February. But there is obviously absolutely no point in booking anything anyway, see what it all looks like in May, but just goes to show the desperate situation affecting the travel industry right now.
 
Bus companies - all dependent on (a) people going to work and (b) concessionary passengers making unnecessary trips.

Privatisation is dead. Railways, buses, airlines - It will be like the railways after WW2 - nationalisation of everything not on ideological grounds but because it will be the only way for any transport to run.

My local cinema had 7 customers on Friday afternoon (most watching Onward). Cinemas, theatres will go dark.
 
TCIB said:
My sister runs a busy take away greasy spoon. She has had to close for x day's as a copper came in saying how half his work colleagues have been exposed, hence asked to self quarantine. Just the act of him entering the premises and the risk that he had it forced her hand, this was today, just found out about it now. The 3 staff she employs are not to happy, neither is my sister but it was a joint decision between them all. She will soften the blow by paying them something for their missed work days but she can't pay them full pay for weeks of closure as she still has rent to pay on the property and obviously no cash is coming in.
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Why did the copper do that? The prick could have telephoned......
 
dickie davies said:
At least you can go to the beach and drink cheap wine
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I am in Spain at the moment and you are not allowed to go to the beach now, in fact you ain't allowed out apart from a few specific circumstances.

There are a lot of places that are going to go bust and I reckon the likes of Spain, Portugal and Greece are going to be in even deeper crap - money wise in the foreseeable future.
 
Owdman said:
I am in Spain at the moment and you are not allowed to go to the beach now, in fact you ain't allowed out apart from a few specific circumstances.

There are a lot of places that are going to go bust and I reckon the likes of Spain, Portugal and Greece are going to be in deep crap in the foreseeable future.
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I am booked to go to Lisbon in April for a break. insured but not holding my breath in getting my money back even.
 
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