CEOs Of All Major US Airlines To Joe Biden: Lift Mask Mandates & Testing Rules Now

by Gary Leff

Mar 23 2022

The 7 day moving average of confirmed Covid-19 cases is down over 96% from peak. Hospitalizations are at their lowest level since the start of the pandemic. We have vaccines and boosters and monoclonal antibodies and small molecule inhibitors – ways to prevent severe disease and to treat it – tools we were only beginning to have when restrictions were put in place.

Anyone advocating continued restrictions has the burden to lay out the off ramp. Under what specific conditions and metrics would they actually support an end to emergency pandemic rules?

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Former Trump Campaign Chair Removed From Emirates Flight Over Revoked Passport

by Gary Leff

Mar 23 2022

Paul Manafort was removed from Sunday’s Emirates flight from Miami to Dubai while he attempted to travel on a revoked passport.

Manafort chaired the Trump presidential campaign in the summer of 2016, and under his leadership had support for a free and democratic Ukraine removed from the Republican platform. He was accused of providing internal polling data to Russian intelligence working in Ukraine, and had previously lobbied for former pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych as well as former dictators of Zaire, Mongolia, and the Philippines.

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Get $1000 And Represent View From The Wing At A Team Challenge In Europe

by Gary Leff

Mar 23 2022

My award booking partner, Steve operates an ‘Amazing Race For Normal People’ team travel competition to Europe once a year. Competitours.com features unique and compelling challenge activities that push you gently out of your comfort zone.

Your routing is a mystery, with each day’s location only revealed with a few hours’ notice. The destinations zig zag around the nooks and crannies of Western Europe- so forget the well-beaten tourist path. There are no eliminations and no one gets left behind as teams transfer to another destination.

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Wild: Man Attacks Police Officers At Salt Lake City Airport Before Surrendering

by Gary Leff

Mar 23 2022

A week and a half ago at the Salt Lake City airport, a man walked up to an airport police officer – and punched him in the head. On March 12, a 33 year old man’s first interaction with two officers was to drop his carry on bag, punch one of them, and then try to hit the other.

He had the presence of mind to know what he was doing – and what was coming next. So he dropped right to his knees on his own and placed his hands behind his head for arrest. Here’s both airport surveillance camera footage and an officer’s body cam footage of the incident.

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Extra Legroom Seats Are Now An Elite Benefit Of American-JetBlue Alliance

by Gary Leff

Mar 23 2022

American Airlines and JetBlue introduced reciprocal elite benefits this past fall. The major omission was reciprocal access to extra legroom seats, largely a function of JetBlue not even offering those to their own elite members.

However JetBlue has been rethinking its elite benefits and now both JetBlue and American elites gain access to extra legroom seats on both airlines along with additional new benefits.

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Whole Plane Sings “Baby Shark” To Comfort Crying Child

by Gary Leff

Mar 22 2022

On March 10 a passenger on board flyDubai from Dubai to Tirana, Albania filmed the moment when the entire cabin pitched in to cheer up a crying child, breaking out in song to PinkFong’s “Baby Shark.” Everyone claps and sings and then the camera cuts to the crying toddler.

This child reportedly started crying shortly before takeoff. A passenger sitting behind the child “started quietly murmuring the words” to the song. Then another joined in, and another, and suddenly the whole cabin had busted out the cringeworthy meme like one giant slow clap.

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