Specially designed autonomous Uber Choppers, get dropped off safely from 8200 feet for the best isolation, rides capped upfront at $64.40 anywhere north of the Yarra!!
Most rideshare drivers live day to day, myself included, not working for 2 days, let alone 2 weeks I will die financially. Only debt I have is for car. But main worry is for utilities, food etc. Very worrying times. Getting $750 from scomo end of month but not enough. Probably have to sell off gold jewellery, luckily gold price ok and Aussie peso low. Oh well good luck and all the best for all.
Uber, Taxi, Limo and other private hire will all feel the pain of this.
Pax will be wary of the possibility of ANY TYPE OF DRIVER passing on the infection, especially in your Yaris or Micra.
As for pax to pax on public transport - well......
Private cars about to clog the roads all day, everyday - assuming workplaces don’t shut down en masse.
Might also be a good idea to dump those Virgin Australia shares at their current $0.08 - they did hit $0.06 late last week. Serious airline pain coming for them and others.
I think next week will be interesting, lots of pax told me they will work from home and I imagine AP travel will be down to minimum so let's see how it pans out
Had a few riders satdy nyt saying they have switched to uber from public transport to avoid the crowds in confined spaces ... last night for me was bigger than any satdy in nov/dec
Dinosaur Taxi industry was so antiquated I'm surprised they weren't using horse and carts, could only survive at all by getting the government mafia to crush any competition and force riders to pay permanant 3x surge for every ride.
Taxi drivers themselves don't even support their own industry, they get ubers everywhere LOL.
Ah no, you wouldnt catch me dead in an uber, that permanent surge kept drivers making a decent wage and the public continued to use it without complaints for years. Now you are a slave and the public is laughing at you.
Yep all Uber's fault. Have the occasional shower, clean your filth ridden taxi from time to time and stop putting others lives at risk due to your reckless driving behaviour and your industry may survive
Tell me Scotty, what effect will this have on your business and surely you'd have a Prima facie case for compensation via the stimulus package. Have the gov considered who is going to drive these people home from the airport? When does this 14 day period start? When they land or when you drop them off?
You can still buy N99 grade breathing mask online just got to wait 10-15 days for delivery. Get a lot of replacement filters as well.
Basically a lot of doctors and nurses around the world are using N95 grade mask and handling infected patients so N99 grade actually filters out more crap from the air. Anything better then N99 grade would be one of those full face military grade chemical gas mask but at the cost of mega $$$ to buy multiple filter canisters that has to be replaced every day.
Honestly thought about buying myself box or two from a factory in china myself and reselling it in Oz to people when I drive. Then I realize I don't drive that much anymore :redface: means I'll have hundreds of mask just laying around. But for personnel use I got 2 and will probably put it on when more cases of corona pops up in my city.
Mask can be hand washed and reused. Filter last 48-72 hours before needing replacement. Cost to replace filters $6 if you are just replacing it every week when your working 48-72 hours. For those super ants that are doing 72 plus hours would need 2 filters. Pretty economical for that little bit of protection. Reason why I got 2 when I decide to use it if I wash one and it needing to be dry then I can just use the other.
Mask and 6-8 filters should cost you under $50. Postage & handling cost not included.
Tell me Scotty, what effect will this have on your business and surely you'd have a Prima facie case for compensation via the stimulus package. Have the gov considered who is going to drive these people home from the airport? When does this 14 day period start? When they land or when you drop them off?
N95 grade is what my daughter has been issued with, at her work in Emergency at Brisbane’s major Northside hospital. That and disposable full body coverage wear.
So far, so good for her and the rest of her work colleagues.
N95 grade is what my daughter has been issued with, at her work in Emergency at Brisbane's major Northside hospital. That and disposable full body coverage wear.
So far, so good for her and the rest of her work colleagues.
They all run on debt & credit and pretty much leverage themselves up to the neck so anything long term over the course of a hundred days or longer will wipe them out. This storm seem like it going to get a lot worst before it gets better as well.
On the radio yesterday afternoon was hearing that elderly shoppers were getting trampled over and pushed out of the way as panic shoppers going crazy in the morning rush to pick the shelves. People turning into animals already and were not even in the cold & flu season yet.
Next year flights are all going to be eye watering high across the board as they all try to recoup what they lost this year.
virtually the first time in history where all air travel is grounded by lack of travel for a sustained period of time.
They are going to be worthless by the end of it. Qantas will still survive this onslaught so will the regional airlines. But I believe Virgin might be a casualty....
They are going to be worthless by the end of it. Qantas will still survive this onslaught so will the regional airlines. But I believe Virgin might be a casualty....
All depends on how big their cash reserves and level of debt. They've been bleeding badly before this knockout, but can they stand before the end of the countdown? I wouldn't bet on it.
Here's a list of Virgin's revenue sources worldwide.
Hard to tell what proportion of their eggs are in which baskets, but they would seem to have some serious risk exposure via banking, retail, travel and transport.
Not looking like being a great year for venture capitalists, and other major risk-takers, in general.
Softbank, with its stakes in all the main rideshare operators, had also better be grabbing their ankles the tightest they ever have, so far.
Not looking like being a great year for venture capitalists, and other major risk-takers, in general.
Softbank, with its stakes in all the main rideshare operators, had also better be grabbing their ankles the tightest they ever have, so far.
Richard forcing his poor workers that living paycheck to paycheck to take 2 months unpaid leave. No way to tell if this will even blow over in a couple month time. Virgin is struggling hard. Radioactive. Richard might be able to take 2 months or a year or a hundred years unpaid leave with his billions in cash reserve but for the everyday air hostess.. Not a bloody chance.
The billionaire Virgin Atlantic boss Sir Richard Branson must pay his employees during a proposed break over coronavirus or face being judged for his actions, a Tory MP has said. Virgin Atlantic staff are understood to have been asked to take eight weeks' unpaid leave in the next three months to help the airline cope with the impact Covid-19 has had on the aviation industry.
It would leave staff to then claim statutory sick pay from the Government at £94 per week. Richard Fuller MP for North East Bedfordshire told parliament the Virgin Group founder could earn £9.9 million from two per cent interest on his £3.8 billion net worth - leaving him with plenty to cover every employees' unpaid leave. He warned bosses: 'When it comes to looking at the protection of your workers, the time is now'.
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