24left

I just read this on Reuters. Wonder if AC would follow LH.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN23J1PZ

canadiancow

I guess I don't think the airlines should be doing it. I think the government should be doing it.

Test everyone before they're allowed in the airport.

24left

Cool





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Adam Smith

AC's hand sanitizer is horrendous goop. I had to use some water from the water bottle to try to rinse off all the residue. Seriously awful stuff.

24left

Maybe because without alcohol, it sticks. But this is what I found:




https://www.orthocanada.com/en/ecolo...hand-sanitizer


(and I still don't understand how anyone can or would "accidentally" ingest this goop)

Diabeetus

Looks like the loop(s) in the back are adjustable too. I get a headache from the regular earloop masks without any adaptors.

Adam Smith

I heard that AC has offered thermometer guns to their employees to use at home before coming to work. I'm surprised there were that many lying around that AC can dispense them so liberally.

Possibly, or maybe it's the aloe, or the gel. I've certainly had a number of alcohol-based sanitizers that left nasty residue.

YYC3722

Just a note for what it is worth. This Biocide is the same one that is being commonly used in Hydraulic Fracturing.

Bohemian1

I'd take one of those as an SE perk.

Heck, I'd even give up my AC Bistro discount codes in return.

expert7700

Temperature checks by the end of Sept, for a pandemic that caused most flight demands to flatline in March? Way to get a head start....
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mileageking

Agree. Several countries in North/SE Asia and other regions had temperature checks implemented in Feb/Mar.

hoipolloi

Can a family of 3 occupy a row of 3 seats despite the middle seats being blocked from seat selection ?

What if one of the 3 people is actually a lap infant ? I am assuming that crew will not oppose seating the 21-months old lap infant in the middle seat (outside taxi, take off, turbulence and landing)

canadiancow

A lap infant is easily fine.

With a 3 year old, you're likely able to do it, but I'd recommend A C D in one row. They're not going to care that a family is sitting together. It makes it safer for everyone.

fin 645

I have been wondering something similar re a family member's upcoming travel - one leg is on a DH4 and so far kids are in seats on their own.

CZAMFlyer

Short answer is yes, longer answer is that it may require a request made through the company at time of booking, as the seats are not displayed as available online. On one of my flights early May, there was a family (two parents + 3yr old) occupying an A, B, C row, but this was prior to middle seats being blocked off, and when flights were departing with very few people on board. Since mid-June, my domestic flights have been full - middle seats notwithstanding.

As for temperature checks, airlines and airports are willingly participating in whatever ruse they can muster to instil some confidence among the fearful and ill-informed. As we learn more about this virus, we're seeing that in excess of 30% of covid-positive people remain asymptomatic, in other words, they don't display a fever and temperature checks would do nothing to prevent them from boarding.

AC staff themselves aren't exactly promoting the reeks-of-desperation #timetotravel theme. I've now seen a few flight attendants walking down aisles in masks, gloves and full-length disposable medical suits. If the CEO is so desperate to encourage people to mingle and travel (against the advice of our medical experts who are actually qualified to make such a decision), perhaps he might consider the impression made by having jauntily-scarved hazmat squads collecting water bottles from his bemused customers.