Zante to Cardiff the second tui coronavirus flight in as many days.
Two tui covid-19 flights, the first Zante with coronavirus-positive passengers bound for Plymouth, the second Zante to Cardiff. Is there a third, a fourth? On each flight at least half a dozen cases.
The Cardiff flight, passengers have complained lack of social distancing at check in, staff handling phones of passengers, on the flight failure to enforce lack of wearing of face masks, passengers not wearing masks walking around the plane to speak to fellow passengers, one lady had someone sat next to her with no mask, it beggars belief tui serving food and drinks on the flight and it goes without saying packed in like sardines.
Failure by tui to thoroughly clean the plane on turnaround. One passenger found wet wipes behind the seat in front.
On public transport, trains and buses, mandatory to wear masks but on tui flights anything goes.
Delta no mask removed from flight, blacklisted from future flights.
Why did the crew not note all those who refused to wear face masks as instructed, pilot radio ahead their details, police waiting to escort them off the plane on landing?
Passengers on the Cardiff flight say the first they were aware they were at risk of infection was when they heard it on the news and through social media.
A lady who was sat next to a passenger not wearing a mask, who said the crew failed to act, has now developed coronavirus symptoms. She hopes it is only a cold, but will have covid-19 test to be sure.
Stephanie Whitfield who was on the tui flight to Cardiff has described how passengers were not wearing masks correctly and just seemed to “disregard the rules”.
She told ITV Wales that she “didn’t feel safe” on board the flight:
I don’t think many of the passengers had been completely educated on the use of face masks.
There were people with their masks underneath their noses, underneath their chins, people were taking them off to speak to other people, taking them off and wandering down the aisle to speak to other people.
I didn’t feel safe and we took the decision before we got back into Cardiff that we were going to self isolate just because we thought it was the responsible thing to do.
I was sat in the middle seat and the gentleman next to me had his mask around his chin so for me to kind of highlight it to someone I would have then had to spend the next three and a half hours sat next to someone feeling very uncomfortable, so I didn’t feel like I was able to do that.
Every single passenger on the Cardiff flight has been instructed by Public Health Wales to self-isolate.
Tui claim they care about the health a safety of their passengers. A sick joke as they do not care about their package holiday clients and their welfare. In 2016 tui was knowingly dumping clients on a building site.
Travelling in a sealed tube in close proximity to other people is a sure plus way to catch covid-19. Passengers wandering around the sealed tube help spread the virus to other passengers.
On the Zante to Cardiff flight, at least three groups of people scattered throughout the plane have tested positive.
Dr Gwen Lowe, consultant in communicable disease control for Public Health Wales has said last week ‘we’ve had about 30 cases in Wales that have come back from Zante’.
Different flights on different days staying in different locations. These are confirmed positive cases and we’re expecting that number to rise.
Up to 30 in a group travelling to Plymouth may have been infected on a flight from Zante. They have subsequently been out drinking in Plymouth.
Greece was already at risk of of being placed on the UK quarantine list.
Greece must deal with the Zante coronavirus hotspot that is spreading covid-19 across Europe. Zante must be placed in lockdown, no travel to and from Zante and as absolute minimum close all bars and nightclubs and anywhere groups of people gather. In an attempt to slow covid-19, across Greece bars and restaurants have to close by midnight.
Tui should halt all flights to Zante. The only flights to bring back stranded clients, who must then face 14-day quarantine.
Update: A third tui flight, Zante to Glasgow had passengers who tested positive for covid-19. Glasgow has been placed in partial lockdown.
Update: Wales has imposed quarantine for all flights from Zante. Scotland has imposed quarantine for arrivals from Greece.
Update: A WizzAir flight Athens to Larnaca, a passenger not wearing a mask correctly was questioned by police on arrival and fined.
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