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4. The airlines do a lot of PR advertising (lies) now about how "fliers are surging back!!!11!"
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 12:24 PM
Jul 2020

Like movie theaters and cruise ships, recreational/elective flying isn't going to be a sustainable business model anymore. Business trips will be a fraction of what it was now that companies have seen how unnecessary it is. Why spend thousands of dollars to fly someone to a meeting in Berlin when you can use something like Zoom and save money and time? It will still be necessary, but only in a very few instances. Who wants to sit next to a coughing maskless person on a sealed plane recirculating its virus-laden air? (MERV-8 filters are too cumbersome and costly to maintain on an airplane and, thus, are useless.)

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