News and notes from around the interweb:
- United Air’s Potential Sale of Frequent-Flyer Stake May Spur a Gold Rush (Bloomberg)
- Qantas reduces redemption costs for hotels and vacation packages
- Hotel bartender at the Beijing Olympics.
Hello, I wrote about the EXTREMELY dystopian vibes inside the bubble at the Beijing Olympics. Exhibit A: Hotel bartenders making specialty cocktails in their full PPE gear https://t.co/ENegv4fErt pic.twitter.com/31YP3GsLlz
— Mari Saito (@saitomri) February 3, 2022
- Qantas CEO compares state of Western Australia to hermit kingdom North Korea
- Dave Neeleman’s Breeze Airways won’t be so premium-heavy, after all.
"Our configuration will remain dynamic, able to easily increase and decrease seat ratios by route and seasonality"
Breeze Airways previously announced its A220s could be reconfigured with as low as 12 first class seats, so 10 is a new value.
— Ishrion Aviation (@IshrionA) February 4, 2022
- Nonrevs flying British Airways business class will be allowed to have amenity kits and pajamas where applicable and use premium lounges.
The airline will also allow staff passengers to choose a wine from the full selection and they will no longer be barred from making a selection that would require a new bottle to be opened.
Can’t tell if it’s a scene from Mad Magazine or the Simpsons. From visiting I know the government doesn’t fool around there, and their intentions may be good, but how long can 1.3 billion people be kept in a bubble?
Although was decided years ago way before the pandemic started, what a crazy bad luck that 2 years in a row both a summer and a winter Olympics had to be in the craziest conservative region of the world regarding the public health situation.
Really should have been swapped to braver parts of the world for these two
The Chinese are WIMPS! They need to face their fear and die from Covid, just like we do. No one lives forever!
The Chinese probably know a lot more about the virus than we do.
The crazy thing about the Chinese bartender is he’s clearly inside of the Olympics bubble, otherwise he wouldn’t be allowed to serve to foreigners at all. So he’s going to go through 2 weeks of isolation after the Olympics anyway, before being allowed home, but is still so afraid of catching something, he’s wearing full PPE…
@JetAway: The Chinese know a lot more about their vaccines than we do.
Free Tibet
Free the Uyghurs
Free Hong Kong
Breeze has first class?
@JetAway: Sure, they invented it.
Luke it is the craziness Communists (controlling)country NOT Conservative!!!
If you have visited China within the last 7 years, you’d understand why a bartender in full PPE during the Olympics during a pandemic is not at all surprising. We overnighted in Wuhan on November 12, 2019 at the end of a Yangtze cruise. I came down with a very ‘bad cold’ which we later realized was the virus. I was utterly terrified, not of being sick, but of being forced to stay in China to recover. China is so polluted, so overcrowded, so literally unbelievable that it boggles the mind. It’s difficult to understand why the populace still thrives in conditions like that. I have such compassion for the wonderful people of China and their living conditions. And I have a renewed appreciation for the USA. It is a great privilege to live here.