(11-22-2021, 07:30 AM)capcom link Wrote:You are so wide of the mark, it's a joke.  You clearly know nothing about global alliances, interline, GDS reservations distribution and the massive interface between carriers across the world.

Without the QF designator, Qantas is effectively dead.  Joyce proposed vaccination passports VERY early in the piece when there were no intnl ops.  By international concurrence, they will become part of the airport structures for check in just as passports have done in the past.  IATA have now introduced rules which will quickly require  compliance.

But hey, I only did this for 42 years. what would I know? :

(11-15-2021, 08:05 AM)Thryleon date Wrote:Id rather have AZ next time around, but we are being given 0 option.

(11-24-2021, 05:31 AM)DJC link Wrote:Indeed! 

IATA did not and cannot "govern" the rules.  The Federal Government determines whether folk can enter the country and QANTAS determines the rules for its staff and passengers.  IATA's vaccine passport, as proposed by Joyce, is a tool its affiliates use.  The Federal Government will permit unvaccinated passengers to be carried under certain conditions, passenger caps, quarantine, etc.  QANTAS may agree or decline to carry such passengers.  Not all airlines and not all governments have the same requirements and Spain, Mexico, Croatia, Madeira, Greece, Cyprus, Slovenia, India and the UAR do not require those entering their countries to be vaccinated.

Quote:Variants of Concern (VOC)
Working definition:
A SARS-CoV-2 variant that meets the definition of a VOI (see below) and, through a comparative assessment, has been demonstrated to be associated with one or more of the following changes at a degree of global public health significance:

• Increase in transmissibility or detrimental change in COVID-19 epidemiology; OR
  
• Increase in virulence or change in clinical disease presentation; OR
  
• Decrease in effectiveness of public health and social measures or available diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutics.
  

 

(11-26-2021, 10:16 PM)Mav link Wrote:Oh boy ... WHO has declared the new Sth African variant as a Variant of Concern and named it Omicron.

It has made it's way quickly through the 1st 2 stages of classification: Variant under Monitoring (24/11/21), Variant of Interest (26/11/21) and now meets the criteria for a Variant of Concern: