News and notes from around the interweb:
- The hoops Southwest makes you go through for a mask exemption before President Biden made masks a federal requirement there were no exemptions on Southwest, now they have to offer one, but they don’t make it easy.
Along with requiring a pre-travel questionnaire at least seven days before departure and written proof of their medical exemption from a physician, passengers will also need to obtain a negative pre-departure COVID-19 test certificate within 72-hours of departure and undergo a private medical screening with a third-party medical provider.
Once a passenger has jumped through those hoops, Southwest Airlines will still refuse to board them if the flight is booked to 50 per cent capacity or more. Even on a near-empty flight, an exempt passenger may still be refused boarding if there is more than one exempt passenger booked on the same flight.
- Saudi Arabia Tourism Authority sponsored content has been removed from Teen Vogue
Amazing: Currently featured on the Teen Vogue landing page is sponsored content for Saudi Arabia pic.twitter.com/Kr6ZroOveY
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) March 9, 2021
- Pilot Describes Conditions in Hong Kong Quarantine Camp He Spent Six Days in Before Being “Extracted” by U.S. Government
- Car rental supply is low and demand is rising
- Austrian Airlines extends its DO & CO catering contract out to 2027 so it appears they’ll continue to have good food.
- New credible evidence of the location of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
- Great KLM ad using the invisible chair trick.
Too bad SW can’t cook up a more daunting set of hoops for emotional support animals
The car rental shortage is very real – without a corporate fixed rate plan, rates are soaring and often when I book through my company (guaranteed car whether there is published availability or not) I have 5, sometimes 10 cars to choose from the Executive lane at National. Hertz is even worse.
The more hoops for the maskless people the better. Too many people would try to get an exemption they are not entitled to. If covidiots didn’t constantly try to find loopholes we wouldn’t need these rules.
If I have a choice SW will be my preference given their mask hoops.