Selfish thought of the day:Airline companies should keep flying the COVID way from now on.

They would happily do that if you will pay twice as much for your ticket

Yea I doubt airlines will keep losing their asses forever.....they'll either jack up the ticket prices or this thing will go away and it will go back to normal at some point.

I always enjoy the traveling insights from laypersons.

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go back to normal at some point

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The farther this goes the more this whole election year conspiracy seems plausible.

I have a strange feeling Covid 19 is going to deflate shortly after Election Day.

That's pretty much how it was pre-911

Then they cut a bunch of flights and figured out they can save money by packing planes

American 11 was 58.2% capacity
United 175 was 33% capacity
American 77 was 33% capacity
United 93 was 20% capacity

And that wasn't just for 9/11. Those flights average load the previous weeks were near 50% capacity.

I do love sitting in a booth at a restaurant without some snot nosed kid standing in the booth behind us, babbling in my damn ear.

Restaurants could continue to operate at 50%. Less crowded is more enjoyable.

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I’m broke and don’t fly often

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I’m not broke, but I don’t fly often. And I just can’t justify buying first class. Was going to fly to Hawaii in July and the first class prices were 5x. It’s a different story when your company is paying for it and you are on a plane 3x a week.

There were 21 people on my Southwest flight yesterday.

If business travel doesn't really come back (due to getting comfortable with Zoom/Teams), there's going to be significant changes.