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American Airlines and United to stop Social Distancing and book flights to full capacity during Pandemic starting in July
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Granted i am too poor to travel, but i don't even go to the grocery store unless it is totally necessary. Covid don't care
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The fun thing about big corporations, is the people at the head offices can make a decision, and make a ton more money than their front line workers (in this situation, flight attendants), and don't have to deal with any of the dangers directly, so they don't care.
We are doing the same with our airlines
It will be fine, It's the summer, complimentary drink will be bleach and the co-pilot will be Jesus.
Not really, thankfully the air filters on airplanes are much higher quality than typical hvac systems.
IIRC, the recycled cabin air passes through N95 filters, so it's cleaner than other indoor air. Still doesn't excuse masks or social distancing though.
It's more complicated than that. Passangers are breathing 50/50 outside air and hepa-filtered inside air. So social distancing would help for sure.
You have people who were in a flight with people who are positive but they did not got infected.
Plus an good EPA filter will filter out the air before putting it back on the cabin.
Are they at least doing temperature checks?
To be honest the distance between seats is such that it likely doesn't matter. A few hours at a 3 foot distance is probably no less infectious than a few hours at 1 foot. Only masks are going to save you at that range.
To be honest the distance between seats is such that it likely doesn't matter. A few hours at a 3 foot distance is probably no less infectious than a few hours at 1 foot. Only masks are going to save you at that range.
Ah well then this is going to make things worse because I doubt the people who don't care enough to fly on packed flights are also the type to self-quarantine upon landing.
Yeah my fellow Americans have proven time and time again that they give no fucks about what's in their best interests and in the best interests of other citizens. They cannot and will not save themselves.
I went outside today to take care of a few things and nobody was wearing a mask, people are acting like it's over so i'm not surprised.
What the hell are you talking about? Seats are inches next to each other laterally and 2-3 feet from head to head in coach. What are you comparing a few hours at 1 foot?
In case you don't know, covid spreads more when the atmospheric pressure is lower, which is absolutely true in an airplane, which makes the being canned like sardines in a plane is absolutely going to spread the virus.
Yes, they've done studies and airplanes filtration systems are very good at filtering out viral particles. It's all about proximity.
Decades of science fiction warning us to Not Do The Thing is powerless against the almighty dollar and the opportunities for corporations to make even of a fraction of a cent in profit. We're all gonna die because of capitalism lmao. Nothing new, the wheels have long since been off.
It's quite obvious that these airline companies do not give a shit about their customers. That's why you won't be seeing me ride on a plane any time soon. If I had to travel for some reason, I would drive it.
That's precisely what they're doing, it's just they're reading their own graph of how long they have before they're in real financial trouble.
I'm not agreeing with what they're doing, but they're losing money on flights were they can't sell the middle seats.
Someone coughing or sneezing, regardless of someone sitting in the middle seat can infect someone up to 2 rows in front or behind them.
I hate people. Like they have no care for their fellow men and women. Its all about them only, screw everyone else.
"I'm so bored at home" smh. Imagine a nuclear blast going off and these morons wanting still to go to ground zero to eat at a restaurant, get haircuts and socialize. I can imagine now.
"I'm so bored at home" smh. Imagine a nuclear blast going off and these morons wanting still to go to ground zero to eat at a restaurant, get haircuts and socialize. I can imagine now.
The only graphs they care about is revenue/profits.
American got a $5.8 billion dollar bailout (and applying for another $4.75 billion) and United got $5.0 billion. In just a couple of months that money is just...gone?
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I still can't believe that airlines have had to continue operating most of their routes and schedules as normal. At the same time, if they're seeing a need to reopen middle seats, I guess that means there has been demand for flights still to the point planes are being fully booked still?
Genuine question but is social distancing even effective on a commercial airplane? Or possible for that matter? Seems like a fool's errand to prevent spread on an airplane, and my wife's work has cancelled any flight plans for at least the rest of the year.
Look... if you are flying, you are in danger to begin with. They just figure, why not make more money off of these people that don't want to stay home.
the best thing about this disease for companies is that you can't pin point where exactly you get infected. You can guess, but you can't say with 100 percent certainty.
the best thing about this disease for companies is that you can't pin point where exactly you get infected. You can guess, but you can't say with 100 percent certainty.
and now they are on my boycott list, Going to ask HR to book all future flights with other airlines.. this means they will lose about 200 flights a year from our company. thanks for letting me know how important your travelers are for you, united and aa!
Same (UK). Went grocery shopping today, very few people wearing masks and Tesco seems to have eased up on the number of people inside the shop. Not only is less physical space making it harder to distance, but it seems alot of people simply don't give a fuck anymore. If I didn't know better I would think covid has been eradicated and I missed the memo.
Never in my life have I felt like I'm fighting a losing battle to this degree.
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No.
Stop thinking that.
Worse case scenario, given the 70% threshold for herd immunity and 0.5% probable death rate, is a million deaths, PLUS hospital overcrowding, which could get the death rate up by as much as 5x, netting 5m deaths.
That's what giving up on managing coronavirus means.
Even if it doesn't, you're still increasing the risk of A) Having someone infected with covid on the flight and B) The amount of people it could spread to
