Demand for flights is picking up. While the airline industry is still struggling to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, there have been reports of packed flights, filled primarily with vacation travelers defying warnings from public health experts. This development has been met by complicated feelings from those working in the industry: more flights means better job security, but also greater potential for exposure in the airports and staffing the planes.
I actually am now working nicer trips. That’s kind of neat. I am very junior in a seniority-based industry. From that point of view, I’ve had a big jump in my seniority because of all the folks who have taken the paid leaves or the unpaid leaves or retired as a result of the virus.First class is usually empty. It’s a much lower percentage of business travelers. In the main cabin, I’m seeing a lot of families. Summer travel is starting to pick up.
But I was in San Jose, and they just blocked off half the airport because nobody’s flying in and out of there. Which was kind of spooky. It was the same thing in Austin, or Baltimore. It was just a ghost town.You know the folks who will push you to your next gate if you’re incapable of walking on your own? They have been transitioned—they wear t-shirts now that says “strike team” on them. And they go around with a bottle of bleach and wipe stuff down.
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