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we are now more hopeful towards 2022 on the back

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of um I think better news with respect to Omicron

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and the fact that at least in the UK cases

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are going down the NHS while being strained is dealing

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and coping miraculously with the situation and of course changes

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too. The restrictions on travel, which have been

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removed here in the UK in another places on January

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the 5th give us Indication that this year should be

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a better year than 20, and 2020. In

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terms of the amount of pent up demand there is

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, we've had two years of people not flying and

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not flying long haul in particular In terms of the

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kind of demand that you're expecting to see. What

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are the early indications. Well, first of all

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, we're on the back of December December was the

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best month we've had since February of 2020, which

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tells you that things are starting to improve that and

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pent up demand is there people have not really treated

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themselves, to a. in large parts of the

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population to a great vacation or even to business trips

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for two years now. It's undetermined yet. How

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it all manifests itself In 2022. But I'm looking

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at the numbers after the announcements here in the,

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in the United Kingdom numbers are in terms of selling

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tickets are back to where they were in November before

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the restrictions Arose and we're looking into a pretty good

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summer overall, our expectations for 2022 would be the

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revenues would come in give or take 85-90% of 2019

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levels first half depressed, second half. Very good

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. But of course all that, assuming all things

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remain as they are stable and improving. Of course

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in the situation with omicron, I was about to

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say, what is your degree of certainty around all

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of this? What kind of volatility do you think

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you may see in some of these figures? Look

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if I've learned anything throughout the last two years is

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only to focus on the things that we do control

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. The one thing that we do not control Is

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the, is the COVID-19 and every time we think

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that it is contained, something else comes up.

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But I think the, the indications are this should

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be a much more stable year. And I think

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it's also clear that governments around the world People have

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learned that international travel can operate safely. We have

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a program of fly safe, fly well and the

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need to curb travel as a means and the only

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means almost sometimes other than domestic measures to curb the

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impact of COVID-19 I think is now receding. So

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it should be a more Normal year. I'm not

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saying the new normal, I don't believe in that

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just a more normal year with travel back at scale

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, but it will take time to get back to

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where we were in 2019. What will travel feel

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like this year when I get on an airplane,

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when I go through an airport, when I visit

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a destination, what would it feel like do you

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think? Well, first, right now there's a

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lot of paperwork. Um, you know, and

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I think that should also be reduced dramatically as people

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get to terms with the new situation. But there's

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a lot of paperwork. You know, people want

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to know the status of your vaccine where you're going

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to be, what have you tested. So that's

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one thing people of course are wearing masks as they

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should throughout the airport and on our planes and when

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you're on a plane, the planes are absolutely cleaner

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. But the service is the same. We have

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people, we say that our people learn to smile

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through their eyes rather than just through their faces.

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I think you feel growingly that it's something that you're

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used to. But there is a level of apprehension

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of passengers who have not traveled for a long period

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of time coming back. But I can tell you

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that it is safe. Um, you know,

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throughout the pandemic, we've really taken exceptional measures to

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ensure that the planes are clean, that we provide

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masks and things to make the travel more convenient and

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more secure. But overall, it's the same old

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fly. Just a different sensation for the people coming

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on our planes