News notes from around the interweb:
- How the Faroe Islands are rocking the response to COVID-19
- What it’s come to.
Wait….. Before you Hate. Lol #QuarantineLife pic.twitter.com/4E6bCL3fV3
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) April 8, 2020
- Quarantined woman jailed for leaving her room to search for clean towels
- Hong Kong wants to bring tourism back this summer
- Lufthansa is seeking bailouts from four different governments. Shouldn’t the airline shrink, though, since its CEO believes on the wealthy should fly?
- Not many airlines right now are announcing new routes – but TAP Air Portugal plans to fly to Cancun and Cape Town.
- This promo video for the city of Wuhan is, I think, good context.
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.
@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?
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.
@ Gary — These people in HK are delusional. No one wanted to travel there BEFORE COVID-19, so why would they go back now?
Lufthansa is shrinking, as they have announced the retirement of quite a few airplanes, including 6 A380.
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.
@Lufthansa
Lufthansa in good times is horrible to fly or deal with. I wont miss them.