News and notes from around the interweb:
- 17 things you should never do on a plane
- An entire generation of Americans has no idea how easy air travel used to be
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- Now that the airline cash grab is fully in the rear view mirror, Delta CEO Ed Bastian felt free to say at the Cowen Global Transportation & Sustainable Mobility Conference on Thursday, “Whether there had been the CARES Act or not, we told our people we weren’t going to furlough.” So why exactly were taxpayers a piñata?
- One-third of ‘buy now, pay later’ services fall behind on payments, relevant because about 15% of people finance vacation packages purchased from airlines.
- Miami airport boasts world’s first Covid-sniffing dogs, world’s first of course except for the airports that have been using them since a year ago. Results are statistically indistinguishable from PCR tests.
If Covid sniffing dogs, cats, or iguanas make travel easier, I’m all for it.
From the 17 things: “It’s our job as flight attendants to walk through the cabin after the drink service to collect trash. We also do this throughout the flight so there’s almost always a crew member in the aisle”
Good thing I wasn’t drinking coffee at the time. Funniest thing I heard today. She should have said “There’s almost always all the crew members gabbing in the galley”, which is more accurate.