Home Page Opinion
October 12, 2021.
Scroll down for Airports and Airlines Today Opinion
UK Today
Who Can Answer the Questions?
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is well-known for his love of quirky phrases and jokey terminology. Indeed his speech to the Conservative party conference was littered with both. One must look beyond such things however, and questions seem never to be answered.
Much is made currently of a drive for higher wages, including by the PM himself. Understandably, most people would jump at the chance to increase their earnings but an immediate question is from where will the money come?
At ground level, ordinary people want to know where they will find the money simply to survive this coming winter, faced with ever-rising heating bills, constantly increasing food bills and always higher bills for everything else. That’s before anybody even gets close to thinking about the eye-watering costs of complying with the government’s so-called ‘green’ agenda and its desire to do away with anything fuelled by gas or oil, leaving the UK solely reliant on electricity for everything.
And there are no answers from Labour either. Just as enamoured of everything and anything connected with the colour green, the party is currently led by a man who seems obsessed with wokery and telling men they can have a cervix.
Higher wages and salaries would be nice but would it not be more practical to do something about reducing the costs of merely staying alive?
The UK desperately needs a new set of MPs in the House of Commons, men and women drawn from the ranks of people who have led real lives, people who have coped with the real-life difficulties never faced by the super-elite. People who can and will answer the questions of those they serve.
Until that happens, we will continue to be led by fantasists who have no idea of the consequences of their bandwagon-jumping opportunism.
Image - M D Beckwith
Airlines & Airports Today
Optimism Always
The airline world has always been a hotbed of optimism, full of people who believe they can succeed where others previously failed. There is much to be said for this and for people who want to try.
It is nevertheless quite remarkable to see, in the teeth of the biggest upset ever faced by civil aviation and with the jaws of COVID-19 still clamped around air travel (not to mention the ever-hungry molars of government control), how many entrepreneurs around the world have created new air transport companies.
A number of these new airlines intend to operate or have started operating in areas of higher demand - principally in domestic settings like the United States, where the ability to travel is not constrained by national borders and where the potential distances are significant.
Despite the travails of 2020 and 2021, many airports have also taken the downturn as an opportunity to rebuild and renew facilities, or to continue with progress started before the pandemic struck.
Even so, demand everywhere can be artificially reined in by government diktat – as we have seen.
While it is always sad to see the demise of established names, it is still welcome to know that there will be those whose optimism will see air travel continue. Their efforts are worthy of recognition and success.
Image – Kevan James
© KJM Today 2021.
Let us know your views on what is happening in the world today.
Email us now - info@kjmtoday.com
Follow us
on Twitter - @TodayKjm
on Facebook - @kjmtoday
KJM Today is not an un-moderated site but a news outlet; like all others (including print media) for letters to be published we must have your correct name and full postal address. Your name, town/city/country will be published unless you ask us not to, in which case we will 'sign' your comments 'name and address withheld by request'.
But we must have them to begin with - no social media user names please!
Have you got a book project or idea?
Do you have an article you would like to submit?
Use the Get In Touch form below and let us know - we'd be happy to consider either or both!
Books from KJM Today:
Books have always been a part of life and even today, they are still.
The printed book, and for that matter magazines and newspapers, face a challenging time in the face of the digital onslaught but there is nothing like a book; a tangible thing that one can hold, feel, and yes, love also.
The digital version is a flimsy on-screen nothing, swiped away with the flick of a finger, deleted when done with.
A book may last more than a lifetime.
Still Available via Amazon -
Comments of a Common Man Edition 3
Heathrow; Days Out at the UK's Premier International Airport.
Airport Days and Nights Terminals and Runways.
Airport Days and Nights Evolution
Boyhood; Soccer, Skaters, Streets and Suchlike
The Posts of Roche Fokke
Boysold (a novel, part one of a trilogy)
Heathrow Airport 70 Years and Counting - SOLD OUT and awaiting a new print run
