News and notes from around the interweb:
- Flight attendants say passengers are touching them more, thanks to the mask mandate
- New details on Connect Airlines which will fly out of Toronto Billy Bishop Airport and partner with American Airlines.
- The Premier of Queensland, Australia – who herself was allowed to travel to Tokyo for the Olympics – dismisses the idea of the Australian government allowing residents to leave the country starting at the end of the year by suggesting there’s nowhere worth going. (HT: Paddle Your Own Kanoo)
She seems to miss that families (including mine!) have been forced apart since the start of the pandemic.
Print copy doesn’t quite capture her delivery pic.twitter.com/nrYouE2WFE
— Jacob Gillard (@gillardjacob) September 24, 2021
- How Delta awakened over 550 hibernating planes
- Southwest Airlines’ incoming CEO found a job application stapled to his Whataburger bag. This wasn’t a hint that he should go looking for a new job, just a new marketing move in the tight labor market. But unlimited Dr. Pepper Shakes make for a nice wage supplement.
- Allegiant is leaving Cleveland and cites the airport’s high costs.
“Unlimited Dr. Pepper Shakes”?
Either that’s an undesirable new condition or a punchline waiting to happen.
Just an observation for Annastacia – India currently has a lower per capita infection rate than Australia, and is vaccinating the equivalent of Australia’s entire population every third day. So yeah, I think a fair few Aussies might not be quite so dismissive of going there.
@Sean M. – you’re right as far as it goes, and India has far more immunity in the population from vaccination and prior infection that Australia does, but using infection rates isn’t really reasonable for comparison because Australia’s *testing* rates are so much higher. (India’s low testing actually helps your argument, it’s why there’s far more population immunity than official statistics suggest..)
Anastacia has the support of 70% or more of the local population. And probably 100% of the 400,000 now-dead India Covid cases would have wished they had lived in our Covid-free paradise in Queensland