News and notes from around the interweb:
- Up to 40 British Airways Boeing 777 pilots may fly for Qatar Airways this winter. Qatar is the largest owner of British Airways parent company IAG.
Meanwhile U.S. airlines are hiring pilots out of Australia, a lesser-considered consequence of Australia’s Covid crackdown could be long-term damage to its economy in unexpected ways.
- Tips for renting a car with Turo
- The successor to transatlantic low cost carrier Norwegian, Norse Atlantic, plans to start service in summer 2022 between Oslo and Fort Lauderdale (South Florida), Stewart-Newburgh (“New York”), and Ontario (“Southern California”) in order to avoid direct competition. Here, by the way, is why low cost long haul airlines fail.
- Redeem Just 63,000 Hilton points per night for the Conrad Koh Samui. All rooms are standalone villas with private pools.
- It’s not just their pilots: American Airlines mechanics union in Tulsa, against mandatory vaccinations. United reports 98.5% of employees vaccinated, Delta 82%. American Airlines hasn’t revealed its number.
- Flight attendants union head Sara Nelson is talking up workers banding together ‘across industries’ as she seems to test the waters for a run to lead the AFL-CIO.
They are happy for the government to come between a woman and their doctor but not a worker and their doctor.
Hypocrisy abounds!
You are so right Jorge. These are the people who are happy to collect Medicare but are against “socialized” medicine. They say every fetus has a right to live but ignore their medical, housing and educational needs when they turn into actual babies. And on and on….
That’s okay, the same crowd that believes in “choice” and “private businesses can impose any rule they want on their customers” also insist on “Bake that cake!” and “Parents should have no say in what schools teach to their children.”
Hypocrisy knows no bounds. It’s only hypocrisy when the other side does it. And I can call both sides on it. Really tired of the extremists on both sides claiming they’re on the side of the angels.
Those people say they will leave their $100,000 a year jobs to avoid getting a vaccine that could save their lives, but when it comes down to it, I doubt that most of them will. I hear the fast food places are hiring. We will never get over this catastrophe if we keep worrying about and bowing to what the unscientific threaten to do and what they believe.
I totally i agree with Jorge and Drrichard. It doesn’t make sense at all.
Hope the airlines are also looking to hire pilots left out in the cold by Cathay Pacific closing a number of their global bases and the Chinese government not giving them visas to work out of HK.