News notes from around the interweb:
- U.S. hotel occupancy creeps up to 42%
- There are a lot of rental cars just sitting on airport lots, I’m sure more than just these two airline employees had the idea to start stealing some, an older ring was just broken up, there were massive thefts in New Zealand during lockdown. There were just thefts at the Fort Myers airport where a man was found with the keys.
- Review of The Aircraft Safety and Certification Reform Act of 2020
- Iceland still has one or two COVID-19 cases some days, but life is pretty much back to normal and they’re welcoming visitors from beyond Europe in a couple of weeks. Their testing and tracing regime is serious. Here’s what it’s all like.
- Thailand may not lift international travel restrictions on July 1. Thai Airways is preparing to ramp up international operations August 1. Restrictions may initially remain on non-business travel ‘because business travelers can pay for quarantines abroad’.
Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport - One town in Washington State has started printing its own money. (HT: @thetvlinsider) And it occurs to me, airlines already print their own currency, why take out a mortgage on MileagePlus when United could just pay its employees and creditors in miles? (Oh, wait, American Airlines is already doing that!)
- The UK Prime Minister’s plane is getting a new red, white and blue livery.
So if Iceland has basically eradicated it, as CNN says, and New Zealand and Australia have too, then isn’t it an epidemic again and not a pandemic?
Sarah… keep your late-night drunk thoughts to yourself.
Um, did you even READ the story you linked?
These two fine upstanding citizens were arrested for stealing 28 cars in May and June of TWENTY NINETEEN.
Not 2020.
Those thefts have nothing to do with “all those rental cars sitting at airports”.
There was an HTML error in the post that cut it off, I referenced the older BWI story along with incidents that occurred during the pandemic but it didn’t show up. That’s been fixed.
Supposedly all these rentals cars sitting around, unused, I want to rent a car, but prices are sky high so I pass on the rental b/c TOO EXPENSIVE! I don’t get it.
Rental car companies are the biggest bullshitting assholes in the world …zero customer service..call and try to rent a car and get ready to get jerked off ..every one of them Hertz avis enterprise act like you are bothering them being an asshole must be number one employment requirement I dealt with all 3 in the last month identical assholes . Fuck off !
It is baffling that you characterize Iceland’s anti-COVID system as “serious” in Italics when it’s what the WHO has been recommending since January and is similar to the one that is in place in many other countries like New Zealand and China.
More proof of just how criminal the US response to the virus has been, and how the economy is suffering more than it would as the result of this. Stores are closing again in certain states!