News notes from around the interweb:

• Southwest Rapid Rewards members with Companion Pass and elite status now show dates extended. The airline tells me they expect points and flight credits that are being added to accounts to make these milestones easier to achieve this year to be completed by the end of May.

  

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  I’m proud to debut my latest project: They Will Fly Again. Commercial aviation is facing the darkest time in its history. News reels have been filled with video of planes parked at airports across the world, but nobody was taking an artistic look at these jets, so I did. Six helicopter flights, six airports, 4200 miles driven across six states, and 7500 images. The full story is available via the link in my bio. The subject matter is beautiful and tragic. It’s a nightmare but also represents the hope for the beginning of recovery. To all of my friends and followers in the aviation industry: stay strong. These jets will fly again.

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• How Yukon’s ‘one caribou apart’ physical distancing campaign became a sensation

• Capital One is providing funding for national expansion of DC-based chef Erik Bruner-Yang “The Power of 10” so that local restaurants can provide meals to health care workers, older adults and community groups: $10,000 a week funds 10 full time staff to make 1000 meals.

  With this support, the initiative now operates in twenty-three local restaurants in eight markets across the country: Washington DC, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Dallas, Baltimore, Charlotte and Richmond. Some of the new restaurants joining The Power of 10 as a result of the partnership include Mama Chang by Peter Chang, La Newyorkina, Petra & the Beast and Ekiben, to name a few.

• NetJet pilots Don’t Rush Challenge.

• This model is closest to my view – we will see moderate spread of COVID-19 for quite awhile, some flareups – but not exponential growth – as states re-open (and regardless of whether they do). This is largely consistent with what I outlined on Monday about where we stand and why I’m getting comfortable planning some amount of travel, picking and choosing destinations, modes, and locations.

• Remembering the father of airline deregulation somehow I didn’t see this at the time. Alfred Kahn didn’t want to be CAB chair and hadn’t set out to do a full deregulation.

• Qantas says 85% of their loyalty program members plan to travel ‘as soon as conditions allow’ but that doesn’t mean they will travel. Wanting to and doing are separate things and 85% of program members do not travel regularly to begin with.