News and notes from around the interweb:
- The United Airlines flight attendants union is complaining bitterly about the return of buy on board snacks and alcohol in limited markets
because they’ll have to workbecause it more contact with passengers and “United’s sales software is glitchy creating frustration for both crew and passengers alike.”Remember the head of the union, Sara Nelson, Wanted the government to outlaw leisure travel entirely while arguing that those same travelers should pony up as taxpayers for airline subsidies so that all employees would get paid anyway and airlines would have enough cash to avoid Chapter 11 restructuring where they might seek concessions from labor.
- Where the Airbus A380 got its name
- Delta will resume some inflight service April 14
- Staples will laminate your CDC vaccination card for free through April 3 with promo code 81450 in-store.
- South African Airways under investigation for ‘extraordinarily dangerous’ takeoff
- In a week many vouchers from cancelled trips at the start of the pandemic will expire airlines will keep customers’ money twice then, first for airline tickets without providing air travel in exchange and second by taking nearly $80 billion in federal subsidies over the past 12 months.
Of course to a large extent it’s now legislators and DOT and Treasury bureaucrats who are the airline’s customers now, not passengers.. unless you were dropping $80 billion on airline tickets and co-brand credit card spend.
- Pilot goes on bizarre rant about liberals and Hyundais
It’s mentioned in the article but bears repeating: take a picture of the front and back of your vaccination card and keep it on your phone. That way, in case you lose it, you have a copy. I suggest that you do the same for your driver’s license, passport, and any other essential documents.
I took a photocopy of my CDC Vaccination card and laminated that. Remember there might be booster shots later in the future (they will put the booster shots under “Other”) so keep the original at a very safe place.
The JetsFan needs to be reminded that not everyone uses their phone as a computer, but as a PHONE only.
@the mask, are you still using an aol floppy disc for internet access?
@FatLip
Windows 95 rules
Delta has a huge problem. They have spent nearly a year telling passengers that flying in a middle seat on their aircraft or competing airlines was unsafe. Delta even hired PhDs and other scientists to produce videos saying so. These videos ran as ads on social media and other outlets. Delta is supposedly going to start booking middle seats at the end of April. This is problematic as the airline says, right now, that middle seats are unsafe. So, who wants to book a middle seat? Delta is going to have to figure this out. If I were Ed Bastian I would come up with a scheme to allow passengers to buy the middle seat for extra space or even a whole row of economy, particularly on long-haul flights, like Air New Zealand and some other foreign carriers do with so-called sky couches.
Gary Leff what is your problem with Sara Nelson? You’ve been calling her out now by name…. Not a subtle hit job… Who’s paying you to do this?
Where is the CDC card being accepted? I don’t know of any US or foreign official that will accept it as proof of vaccination.
The flight attendants are going to be about as popular with the public as the teachers unions at the rate they are going.
I’d be interested in the answer to MMT’s question. So far, despite lots of talk of a COVID passport, no one anywhere in the world has anything approaching one, not even the UK pub pass.
How will they apply round #3 if you’ve laminated it? Just saying, it’s not a diamond. Vaccines aren’t (usually) forever.