News and notes from around the interweb:
- “3, 2, 1… Now!” The story behind Heathrow’s parallel runway take-off
- Sydney airport sells for $17 billion (HT: @crucker)
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- China banned flight tracking app FlightRadar24 first they came for effeminate men, then they came for the AvGeeks. Ok, the effeminite men were hardly first.
- American Airlines should do this. They’d earn back premium flight attendant pay and meet the vaccine mandate at the same time.
In Greece, antivaxxers have been paying doctors 400 euros to give them shots of bacteriostatic water instead of th #COVID19 vaccine.
Except the doctors have been pocketing the money and giving them the real shot anyway: https://t.co/cAX9fbmDW6
— Kellen Squire (@SquireForYou) November 6, 2021
- Man caught trying to sneak into Alaska Airlines lounge at New York JFK
Bacteriostatic water would burn. You need to use normal saline. lol #amateurs
Greek doctors showing that the anti-vaxxers are dumber than we give them credit for.
The dual takeoff story and prep that went into it is really amazing, what a great story.
Double take off 1 km apart: yawn!
would have been so cool if they did a parallel arrival in the USA as well.
The never ending (until now) banning of even fully vaccinated passengers from countries with lower COVID rates than ours (that’s most of them) was incredibly cruel to families and pointless in the battle against the catastrophe. It’s about time..