News and notes from around the interweb:
- The Priority Pass / The Club people are partnering on a new lounge brand in Brazil: Ambaar Club.
- The strange Covid-theater precautions in Oaxaca
There is a place along the local highway where they stop all cars, and have everyone get out to accept a dose of hand sanitizer.
- Through July 30, Air Canada Aeroplan is offering miles for sale with up to 80% bonus (1.3 cents apiece for customers with a US address and credit card, since that avoids the taxes).
- Tokyo Narita and Haneda airports “start facial recognition in full scale”
- OzJet thought all-business class made sense for a 439 mile flight
- At least Avis doesn’t report cars stolen when its customers rent from them, so that’s something.
It is technically accurate to say wait time is “more than 30 minutes” @avis. Still going.
Do you guys use the “callback” option? My expectation on a callback is that someone is ready to talk. Reality with many is that you then have to wait on hold for someone to pickup. pic.twitter.com/AyCiFyLUyZ
— Rakesh Agrawal (@rakeshlobster) July 19, 2021
- Will Lufthansa take a stake in fellow Star Alliance member TAP Air Portugal
- No matter what you think about the push for federal infrastructure spending, you have to give some pause because when Doug Parker is back getting excited for it, watch your wallets. His entire career as a CEO has been spent picking taxpayer pockets.
I thought the Mexico security theater was going to be the “sanitize your shoes” thing resorts down there are having people do before entering restaurants/lobbies/etc. Because we all know COVID is transmitted when somebody is walking with the bottom of their shoe covered in it, and then another person licks the floor where those shoes were.
Doug Parker is the welfare queen.
Yeah COVID theater is pretty ridiculous in Mexico. I’ve been staying in CDMX for ~2 months now. Some places like museums have some sort of disinfecting spray, and they make you spin around so they can spray it on your clothes. Everywhere has the ridiculous shoe sanitizers. And virtually everywhere you go takes your temperature, but they almost all do it wrong and half the time they don’t even look at the actual temp. Pretty silly.
I was in Merida, MX, last month. The Yucatan went from yellow to orange in our week there. Everywhere on the plaza, there were workers spraying hand sanitizer on people’s hands. In that time, most tourist attractions closed. So, we missed seeing quite a few things. Masks were mandatory, everywhere including outside. Which is probably going to come back in the USA, because only the vaccinated were supposed to go maskless. Welcome to the 5th wave!
Does the sanitizer stop include an aggressive timeshare sales pitch? “Let me rip you off señor”
Yep, I just experienced the shoe cleaning thing at the Hyatt . I thought that was hoof and mouth disease .
Yep, the shoe sanitizer requirement in MX cracks me up, but maybe not as much as when my friends came a few days after I did and went to a local cenote to swim–and were required to leave their masks on–in the WATER.
At least they are using Ivermectin to treat people rather than demanding the gmo jab.