News notes from around the interweb:
- Iceland only just imposed a requirement for arriving passengers to quarantine, yet their battle against COVID-19 has been largely successful
- What happens to Embraer with Boeing pulling out of their joint venture
- Delta’s small business program, SkyBonus, waives minimum spend and minimum employee requirements
Additionally, the carrier is looking to extend the 2020 SkyBonus Elite status until 31-Dec-2021, the expiration of SkyBonus points for an additional 12 months and SkyBonus travel award certifications set to expire between Jul-2020 and Dec-2020 until 31-Dec-2021
- American Airlines bumps up New York service
- British Airways pilot jogs through an empty Boeing 777 while inflight as part of a challenge for people missing a charity marathon.
He may have been 40,000 feet in the air en route to #China to collect #PPE for the #NHS, but that didn’t stop @matthewlake171 from completing the #twopointsixchallenge! @LondonMarathon @British_Airways pic.twitter.com/Y7dUGCaLdS
— Helena Carter (@HelenaCarterITV) April 26, 2020
- Just one airport. And we’re going to need to not hand ID over to TSA at all considering how high risk the screening process is.
The @TSA team at @AlbanyAirport designed a bank teller type of protective shield to limit face-to-face exposure between TSA officers and travelers while still enabling officers and passengers to interact at the travel document checking podium. #FightAgainstCoronavirus pic.twitter.com/XZnFaTO9AJ
— TSAmedia_LisaF (@TSAmedia_LisaF) April 26, 2020
- The EgyptAir Don’t Rush Challenge.
Re: Iceland do they need any restrictions to diminish tourism in February and March?
Are you retarded? The picture literally shows a TSATard handling ID in gloves you known the dipshit hasn’t changed all day.
Re: TSA Kiosk. Yet they’re still handing over a physical ID where germs could spread, making the whole kiosk useless…
Homeland security budget is like a trillion and it sounds like they left it to the local team to figure something out. Ridiculous.
Gf flew out of lax last week and she says the TSA ID agent didn’t even have a mask on
Why can’t the TSA with its nearly bottomoless budget, roll out immediately, the same document checking machines used in Europe. There should be no need for any human interaction to check documents. Why do we always have to look like a third world country?
Yep, that glove that doesn’t get changed for an entire shift isn’t passing any germs between passengers . . .but, by goodness, that shield keeps everybody safe. SMH
“Homeland security budget is like a trillion and it sounds like they left it to the local team to figure something out. Ridiculous.”
This one thousand times
Even our local post office up here in the boondocks made a protective shield in their shop for the one clerk on duty and their budget is literally nada