News and notes from around the interweb:
- The U.S. will require passengers from the U.K. to have had a negative Covid-19 test within 72 hours of departure starting Monday.
- Mexico adds a tourist tax. When you tax something, you get less of it.
- Business class award space on United’s Newark – Johannesburg non-stop at end of schedule (rare).
- Delta gifts employee who battled Covid-19 for months a first-class trip anywhere in the world
- Costco selling N95 masks reader losingtrader reports “100 for $319 and there’s a discount in today’s circular.”
- Singapore’s Changi airport is now a luxury glamping campground
@ Gary — First Class? So, what airline will they fly on?
@Gene
China Eastern 😉
Why for heavens sake would someone want to travel to SA now? Don’t get me wrong we cancelled a trip this past year and were beginning to look at Cape Town again but with the new mutations taken it off the table. Until there is a reason percentage of the worlds population vaccinated international travel will be questionable to certain parts of the world. Having said that I have booked London this summer.
@Ghostrider5408 – not now, I’m talking about an award trip (so highly flexible) for fall 2021
I booked JNB-EWR-LAX for first week of November. Excellent use of 70K UA miles per person and I love fast the travel time is without a stop in Europe or the ME. Thanks for the heads up!
So Mexico wants more tourist income and thinks offering a disincentive for tourists to visit is the answer?
Maybe it isn’t such a bright idea to be touting US-South Africa travel at the moment? You know because there is a new variant of covid in south africa. The new variant there is apparently more transmissible and is leading to more severe illness with younger people. South Africa has by far the most covid cases of any country in Africa.Their hospitals are already stretched extra think hence they imposing of nightly curfews and allowing alcohol sales only four days a week with stronger restrictions coming. Heck. Even the UK is banning people coming from south africa to the UK as a result. Just maybe now is not the time to be travelling.
I take back what I said re: south africa travel. It says: at end of schedule which I read as through the end of schedule, which is obviously much more reasonable. Still I don’t know what south africa’s condition will be in late 2021. The US isn’t likely to be coming out of the pandemic until summer if even then given how long it will take to vaccinate people. I’m not sure south africa is going to be able to vaccinate all their people by the fall.