A couple of days ago Etihad Airways made headlines for vaccinating all pilots and flight attendants. Well, it seems that one airline has one-upped the Abu Dhabi-based airline, at least for now.
Continue reading: EL AL Becomes First Airline To Vaccinate All Customer-Facing Employees
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I’m aware of another major who are currently in talks with the health ministry to vaccinate all their crew
Israel has been using the Pfizer vaccine, which has been transparent about their data, and is fairly highly regarded. UAE has been using Sinopharm, which has shown little public data, and does not have the same level of trust as Pfizer. So in my mind, El Al>>Etihad.
We don’t have all the data that Eithiad is using, it’s the Sinopharm vaccine.
Israel has only been using Pfizer and Moderna vaccine’s which have been peer reviewed and verified.
So we can fully say el al employees have immunity. We can not verify that fully for Eithiad.
Either way. Israel and UAE will be two great long haul destinations with faster than most to recover.
Weird race to be "the first to vaccinate..." and hope for some media coverage.
What's next?:
"Farting Airline" is the first to vaccinate all cabin crew bus drivers?
Could be that SputniK V.could be in the running as first choice for world airlines assuming a level playing field...Custom build for the industry...
Maybe this reduces the fear of flying but the fear of travel remains with staff at airports not being vaccinated and travel rules/quarantines/tests etc.
On trusting vaccines not developed in the West, here’s an interesting OP-ED: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/covid-vaccines-china-russia.html
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