News and notes from around the interweb:
- Russell Westbrook of the Houston Rockets leaves $8,000 tip for cleaning crew at bubble hotel
- UK will replace 14 day quarantine on arrival with Covid testing regime
- Delta is reshuffling management employees
- Australia doesn’t expect to re-open international travel broadly until late 2021
- ‘Cabin crew, disarm doors and cross-check…’
No inflatables inside please 🤦♂️✈️ pic.twitter.com/PN5zMHjccJ
— Breaking Aviation News & Videos (@breakingavnews) October 7, 2020
- 43 airlines have failed so far across the world this year but that’s not all that ahead of normal pace.
At this point it seems hard to understand why/how a scheme that required a PCR test 72-hours prior to departure coupled with a 15-min antigen test upon arrival wouldn’t catch the vast majority of cases coming into the country. This would allow quarantine-free travel, the benefits of which would far outweigh the miniscule number of cases that might slip through the cracks. The only exception would be countries such as New Zealand which are actually CoVID free. CoVID is now widely endemic in much of the world, so taking economically disastrous moves (14-day quarantine) to keep out a handful of new cases doesn’t make any sense from a public policy standpoint.
17,000 gone from Delta that is probably the reason no one is answering their Twitter feed!!
Doug, would the traveler be willing to pay for such a test? Alaska has had the 72-hour PCR test as a prerequisite for entry but still very few tourists have been going there.