Originally Posted by
cmd320
If it’s any consolation you’re not really missing much. Service is pretty much trash in comparison. You have to wear a mask all the time. Even booking flights is a bit of a PITA due to the massive schedule reductions.
There are some positives though. Quiet lounges, quick and easy security, no parking issues. I can roll up to the airport 35 minutes before departure and have no concern about missing my flight.
Absolutely agree with you. I was flying twice a month to the States from London last year and all the small things making it bearable for me are gone (like sitting on the hotel bar at LAX after a long flight, pulling myself Champagne in the Flagship bar, enjoying drinks on a late Friday night at an buzzing airport bar, having flexibility with hundreds of flights in every direction, having some some pre-departure drinks...).
If I would go now to LAX I am not sure if a) hotels are open b) what I'll do in Santa Monica when I don't have meetings and I need a reservation for every restaurant (if open anyway) c) if Uber is not ceasing operation and so on and so on.
Normally I went to Dubai 4 times a year for work as well. Now I would need to time a PCR test to fly out, and as I stay normally 4 nights there, would need to find another PCR test after 2 days so they let me out.
Problem is I don't see the situation changing anytime soon as this time we need to wait for a vaccine, and then until a decent amount of the world's population has actually received it.