Re:How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting E...
by ceejayoz on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:24PM
(#22704246)
> About half the world’s airfreight typically moves in the bellies of passenger aircraft, while the rest travels aboard air freighters.
Turns out we can just keep those passenger aircraft flying.
https://www.wired.com/story/airlines-use-empty-passenger-jet...
> But Monday afternoon, Delta said it’s putting an unspecified number of passenger jets back in the air, flying out of 13 American airports and to 70 destinations overseas. Delta’s not selling any tickets for those planes, however. Rather, they’ll be operated by Delta’s cargo arm, running charter flights to cater to anyone who needs to move a package or pallet.
Re:How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting E...
by bitexploder on Friday March 27, 2020 @11:10AM
(#22703431)
I ordered a number of masks yesterday from Aliexpress. It works. Shipping is slower than usual, but not crazy.
Re:How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting E...
by Kiro on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:27PM
(#22704273)
Can you really say it works until you've actually received them? What masks did you order by the way?
Re:How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting E...
by bitexploder on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:47PM
(#22704476)
Well, I ordered some a couple weeks ago and got them as well. Been distributing them to neighbors.
I'd be surprised if that worked at all. At least one Chinese ecommerce website is preventing foreign IPs from even viewing item listings for masks. When you try to view the item from the search results, it gives you an error saying something like export is prohibited.
Also China has pretty much shut down air travel to the country to prevent "imported cases," so air freight capacity from is greatly reduced: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/world/asia/china-virus-tr...:
> The halt to almost all international passenger flights in and out of China will make it even harder for other countries to import N95 respirators, disposable surgical masks and other personal protection gear from China for their own doctors and nurses. About half the world’s airfreight typically moves in the bellies of passenger aircraft, while the rest travels aboard air freighters.
> Previous, large-scale cancellations of passenger air services to China have already created an acute shortage of air cargo capacity over the past two weeks.