BA cabin crew contract virus on long-haul flights

A number of British Airways cabin crew have contracted the coronavirus when operating long haul flights over the past two weeks.But BA pilots and cabin crew say the airline was slow to take action to protect them from the virus.

This week the airline also helped repatriate hundreds of British nationals from Peru. Along with other UK-based airlines, BA is now working with the Foreign Office to bring back people who are stuck abroad.Public Health England has suggested that every other seat on an aircraft should now be left empty so that social distancing is possible.The in-flight service on flights operated by BA and its rivals has been greatly reduced to minimise person-to-person contact.

In an email sent to the pilots' union BALPA, Public Health England said"seating passengers separated by one seat either side would be a sensible approach."

Simonjlove Damn- it’s never ending

It’s travelling that spreads it! Stay home!

Why is air travel still happening? All borders should have been closed as soon as the virus was identified and a lot of lives would have been saved

Unless you have the required spacing nobody should fly it’s madness.

Granted passenger numbers are low these days but it appears we may have locked the back door but left the front one wide open. FGS Get testing inbound passengers on arrival.

WE ALL HAVE IT!. Stop reporting ALL deaths as COVID19!!!!!!! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

you still don't know this pandemic is a virus war? this is CCP and WHO work together starting a war that loss one city to win whole world, you don't known that CCP born for defeat USA?

Why the fuck are we still flying people in and out

The virus doesn’t move ... people do . People travelling all over the world when this first started has created this awful situation. Lock down came far to late in a majority of countries. In the uk 52 days to late ! Absolute nightmare , so sad stay home corona staysafe

Shock

Why the fuck are they still flying?

Think everyone in the world goin get it .

The BBC enable this criminally negligent tory government of genocidal idiots. WHY are we not testing and quarantining inbound flights YET? BloodOnToryHands BorisOut BorisResign

Terrible airline. Haven't flown it since 2011 after it had become a joke. Rude gate crews, non-existent leg room, and 0bscene prices. I hope it shuts down.

How do they know where they actually caught COVID 19?

Where's the categorical proof it happened on a flight. You're not the Daily Mail....

Total disgrace we even have flights still coming in!

Why is that surprising?

Flying petrie dishes. Ships are floating petrie dishes 🧫

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