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Originally Posted by wco81
(Post 32390981)
So are they really going to have flights with lower loads to maintain 6 feet of distancing?
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So, spread out whilst boarding, good luck in the sardine tin.
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Originally Posted by wco81
(Post 32390955)
Got an email from Kirby announcing United CleanPlus or some such nonsense.
They are partnering with Clorox. Meanwhile I'm on my 5th or 6th email update from Ed Bastian at Delta keeping me up to date on what's going on and attempting to continue enough engagement that I will stick around as a customer. |
You must have mistaken me for someone excited to get an email from Kirby.
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Originally Posted by wco81
(Post 32391566)
You must have mistaken me for someone excited to get an email from Kirby.
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Originally Posted by LarryJ
(Post 32388645)
, my four most used required flight manuals total 4,272 pages.
Originally Posted by narvik
(Post 32390226)
I believe it's a matter of exposure to the infectious dose, or plaque-forming units (PFU).
At this point it is likely that we pretty much all have been subjected to some very low count of SARS-CoV-2 PFU. That doesn't mean it reaches the threshold of getting COVID-19. Being on a plane for 12 hours wearing a mask for 11.5 hours of that time is likely to be much safer than not wearing a mask at all.
Originally Posted by bocastephen
(Post 32391526)
How exciting - one email from Kirby talking about aircraft cleaning that is 99% certain to NOT happen as described in the email. Nothing else.
Meanwhile I'm on my 5th or 6th email update from Ed Bastian at Delta keeping me up to date on what's going on and attempting to continue enough engagement that I will stick around as a customer. |
Originally Posted by spin88
(Post 32391767)
Did you get the 40 minute iPad lesson on how to fly the MAX as well? That one was very thorough I understand.
At that time, the MAX Flight Manual (FM) was a separate manual with several hundred pages. One FM for the NG, one for the MAX. They have since been combined into a single 737 FM as the vast majority of the information is identical in each sub-fleet. Now, the single manual covers the -700, -800, -900, -900ER, and -9. It's much easier to use, for both for study and for reference, as a single manual. I only flew the MAX a couple of times but the transition was straight forward. Lots of nice improvements in the avionics as well as the handling during landing. Not sure why you bring this up here, though. We had already strayed quite far for the topic of this thread by talking about how airlines from different countries follow different rules. |
Flying tomorrow for the first time since 3/7. Got 4 seperate messages from UA today, each one both text emailed.
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Originally Posted by WineCountryUA
(Post 32390966)
UA Press Release
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Originally Posted by st3
(Post 32396843)
I could post the exact text if anyone wants, it is not that riveting.
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Originally Posted by prestonh
(Post 32396887)
When companies make a big pr fuss over cleaning now I cringe knowing how dirty it was before they cleaned properly. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Originally Posted by Rock214
(Post 32396988)
Please let it say at least once, “In this time of great uncertainty” or “This is the new normal”.
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UA is one of the few airlines not guaranteeing reduced capacity flights:
JetBlue is blocking middle seats through July 4. Delta is only loading coach cabins to 60% of capacity, and first class to half capacity. American is taking a more relaxed approach, capping (most) flights so that they don’t have to assign half of middle seats. There’s no problem with households sitting together in middle seats of course. United Airlines doesn’t even go that far. United says if you don’t like a full plane, don’t fly and they’ll try to let you know in advance so you can make the decision before coming to the airport. (They won’t give you a refund, of course, just a voucher towards future travel you may not be comfortable with either.) On the one hand there’s just not going to be social distancing on planes. Blocking the middle seat still has passengers in front of you and behind you – and a mere foot and a half to the side. But it makes people more comfortable, and people need to be more comfortable in order to return to travel. Air travel is a lot safer than people think but they need to feel safe and not all airlines are helping people do that. But one of the comments at that blog post says UA added some flights out of DEN and even used 777 on routes which usually are served by single-aisle aircraft? Find that unlikely, even more loss of money to do that. |
Originally Posted by wco81
(Post 32398274)
Find that unlikely, even more loss of money to do that.
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But they wouldn't use the bigger planes to give passengers more distancing,.
They would do it because they had more passengers than could fit in a smaller plane? |
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