As Global Aviation Scales Back, One Star Alliance Carrier Is Expanding Its Long Haul Routes

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  1. These small island nations need to stop patting themselves on the back. We can’t actually just copy them and expect success. Becuase part of what they are “doing” is “being a relatively restricted-access island nation.”

    Faroe Islands, Iceland, New Zealand…etc.

  2. @gary

    A day ago those TAP flights to Cape Town were showing in united system for award flights. Now I can’t find them at all.

    Do you know what happened?

  3. I have an award flight booked on TAP in June (United miles), without much realistic hope I’ll actually be able to take it. But I’m not one to cancel everything just because things look bleak today. A decision can wait a few more weeks. At some point there will be some combination of testing, temperature taking, face masks, cleanliness protocols, social distancing and a falling case rate, so that life will begin again.

  4. @ Gary — These people in HK are delusional. No one wanted to travel there BEFORE COVID-19, so why would they go back now?

  5. Lufthansa is shrinking, as they have announced the retirement of quite a few airplanes, including 6 A380.

  6. Hong Kong will be one of the first places I’ll go once I am free to travel again. It’s certainly safer, freer, and vastly more interesting than where I live at the moment. Given the relative success with how HK has dealt with Covid as compared to the US, I might not sure I’m coming back.

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