News and notes from around the interweb:
- Another shootout at a beachfront hotel in Cancun
- American Airlines flight attendant picketing really doesn’t hit the right note. Says: “I’d like a nap and my candy crush skills need work.”
“No More Schedules That Compromise Safety” and “We’re Sick Of Sleeping In Airports” would be more effective.
- Starting May 8 Japan will no longer require vaccination or testing for entry, downgrading Covid-19 to a ‘common disease’. Already masking has been changed from a government recommendation to personal choice, though local courtesy suggests masking in crowded spaces like most trains.
- Hong Kong’s excellent Plaza Premium First lounge has re-opened. Singapore Airlines, still not operating its SilverKris lounge, is directing passengers here.
- What an AI doom scenario would actually look like:
.@jimmykimmel on ChatGPT and @SpiritAirlines… pic.twitter.com/wxCrmVMN2o
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- Winner winner chicken dinner Amsterdam airport banning private jet flights ‘due to higher level of CO2 per passenger’ will not end up reducing CO2 emissions, but increasing emissions. Because every corporate interest now gets draped in socially popular causes.
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“Ready for Rest”
Now the unions are saying the quiet part out loud.
1. Cripple the airline
2. Reduce flying by 30%
3. Layoff/dismiss 20% of FAs
4. Plenty of “rest” to go around
Quietly waiting for a new contract for four years didn’t seem to do much good for American’s FA’s so trying some different approaches is way past due, even if the slogans could use a lot of work.
They only have themselves to blame don’t like it? Find another job.
Busses crash for more frequently than airplanes, and passenger trains derail more often, both causing many far more deaths and injuries to bus and rail passengers, but somehow we’ve managed to avoid a mandatory role for attendants for buses or trains to tell us how to escape a crash.
Flight attendants though have somehow managed to convince most of us to blindly assume that they’re necessary to assure safe travels, but it seems to me that the importance of that safety role is greatly overstated and that the marginal cost to train them and pay them for this role could get higher marginal returns to safety if spent elsewhere.
Oh look, here’s Gary again, putting in his two anti-union cents about a job of which he has no clue.
@Tom – tell me what I have written that’s wrong, and why
FA: but Gary, all those words won’t fit on this small sign! (Sighs)
Gary: did you think to order a slightly larger sign and slightly smaller letters?
FA: Uh, no. We can do that?
Gary: that’s why I’m the travel thought leader and you’re the follower.
(Close Scene)
Oh Gary, nice of you to fight the good fight about hogging your first class chicken dinner and your invented job but the rest of us are choking on your fumes. Please dial it back before you kill the planet.
To the barricades!
@Mak, oh Mak Mak Mak. I know you haven’t flown since the last time you stepped on a 707, or maybe it was actually a Convair. Doesn’t really matter. Your comment says it all. You do realize that a bus can come to an immediate stop on any street, highway, overpass, etc and a train, while taking a bit longer than a bus, can put on the brakes on any track, right? I’m boarding my flight tomorrow and I’ll be sure and ask the Captain as we’re over the Pacific if I can have him put the plane down in about 1 minute or less. Get a grip and educate yourself. Another, ‘I want to comment on things I know nothing about’.
Haven’t had a raise in 4 years. “You guys should do nothing because doing something like picketing somehow hurts your cause” ♂️