News and notes from around the interweb:
- Japanese firm has become successful repackaging inflight meals as bento
Credit: ANA - There were seven hour lines at UK immigration on Sunday and remember these are indoor congregant settings, that’s where Covid spreads, so don’t give me the excuse to blame passengers for failing to pre-purchase their Covid-19 testing packages for the 2nd and 8th day of quarantine as though the waits were a Covid precaution.
- Travel insurance claim is denied, man gets revenge
- Alaska’s first Boeing 737 MAX is flying without internet
- Airbnb no longer pays affiliate commissions I think the critic here is projecting their own disappointment onto the company’s business decision-making.
- Iran Plans to Increase Amount of Airplanes Flying Over Its Territory discounting overflight fees, but Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 looms large.
- Thai Airways expects to cut its workforce in half
Re: Airbnb, what exactly is a ‘creator’ in this sense?
The UK is “open for business” and UK Border Force is just trying to give the US CBP some serious competition for making arrival into the country memorable for crazy long lines.
The U.K. story is highlighting something that happened at Christmas. Odd it’s being reported now in March.
I entered the UK at LHR T2 at the end of January and had to wait in line for about 85 minutes to be able to use the e-gates. At first I was told that the e-gates were not available . That turned out to be a lie, as I later discovered the line divided, with one to use e-gates and one to speak to immigration officers. Mask compliance and social distancing were sub-optimal throughout, of course. Granted, everyone in line should have had a negative COVID-19 test to board the incoming flight, but those results are easily faked and I didn’t like the looks of the people around me. I am not very afraid of catching COVID-19, but being forced to stand in close quarters in a poorly ventilated room with thousands of strangers for almost an hour and a half was galling.