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As U.S. Airlines Cut, Air Canada Introduces Celebrity Chef Meals In Coach

by Gary Leff

Jul 20 2020

Airlines are differentiating their approaches to the pandemic. Offering a better experience is a key strategy to winning business away from other airlines.

For U.S. consumers who do not live in an international gateway city, a connection is required. And as Air Canada brings U.S. flights back online, this matters because they’ve historically been the foreign carrier serving the most U.S. destinations – making the one-stop required for an international trip just as easy via Canada as via many U.S. cities. Air Canada is a direct competitor of U.S. airlines for U.S. passenger international trips.

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A Vaccine Alone Won’t Be Enough To Make Travel Normal Again

by Gary Leff

Jul 17 2020

Many readers have said consistently throughout the pandemic that they will not travel until there is a vaccine. I think it’s the wrong paradigm for thinking about future travel both because a vaccine won’t be the cure all many people expect and because travel itself seems pretty safe, the issue is what you find at your destination.

We know a lot more about Covid-19 than we did three and four months ago. Much of what we think we know is still speculative. There’s learning which suggests real optimism, even as the virus spreads rapidly through much of the country (especially the southern portion). But the idea that we’re just hanging in for a vaccine, and once we have one everything goes back to normal, no longer holds up as we learn more about what vaccines against the novel coronavirus can do. At the same time it’s one part of a tool kit that will bring life and travel back to what it once was – and taken together likely even get us most of the way there in the first half of 2021.

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Airline And Hotel Employees Use Their Prejudices To Report You For Crimes

by Gary Leff

Jul 17 2020

An African American social service worker is suing American Airlines after she was accused of kidnapping a one year old white baby while traveling with him on a flight. She was accused of “holding a kidnap victim.” In fact she was returning from a two week court-ordered visit for the child with his father.

See something, say something isn’t just for airport security, it’s supposed to stop human trafficking and travel industry employees are asked to speak up when their prejudices training makes them think something could be amiss.

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Hilton Will Count Every Elite Night This Year Towards Qualifying For Status In 2021

by Gary Leff

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Jul 14 2020

Hilton has now updated their rollover nights program, all nights earned in 2020 will count towards earning elite status in 2021 for your 2022 elite level.

If you already stayed 10 nights in January and February, 2020 those nights will start off yuor elite earning next year. If you stay 5 more nights this year you’ll begin 2021 with 15 elite nights.

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New Australian COVID Outbreak Linked To Sex Scandal In Quarantine Hotels

by Gary Leff

Jul 04 2020

Australia has fewer than 8500 total confirmed cases of COVID-19. The country’s success appears to be a combination of effective policy response and luck.

International arrivals of their own citizens required quarantine. But it’s those quarantine facilities that are the site of a new virus outbreak in Melbourne – and also of a sex scandal. Because the guards were having sex with the passengers being quarantined, and exposing themselves to the virus.

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