Some companies have an employee of the year award. Meanwhile China Southern has a ”King of Quarantine” award, and it was just given to an A380 pilot for his work in 2021.
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Through all of 2020 and 2021, I was astonished about how many inbound and outbound flights for LAX there were from East Asia (China Southern, JAL, ANA, EVA, China Airlines, etc) despite allowing zero US Citizens into their host countries. Seems it wasn't all candy and unicorns for the staff working those flights. Thanks for sharing this!
The Winter Olympics is two weeks away and the Chinese government wants to brag to the world that China does not hold a super spreader event. The west is too polarized, weak and money oriented to demand China for accountability and compensation for spreading the virus to the world. It should have closed its borders immediately--no entry and exit.
@ Andrew: Eastern Asian countries place societal interests above personal interests. Tourism revenues do not dictate their economic policies. We can also question why non-vaccinated passengers are allowed to fly domestically.
While I'm sure the Chinese meant this in a complimentary fashion, Quanrantine King comes across about as positively as Syphilis King.
Might be easier to just base them overseas and step foot into China a few times a year to see relatives
Plenty of fully vaccinated people, and even those with the booster shots, are getting it and spreading it. Maybe because over a 99% chance of surviving it...add again, that you can still get and spread it being fully vaccinated. If you're that worried about it, don't fly.
A lot of those flights aren’t terrible full. I’ve flown several times between US and East Asia. The loads could fill a CRJ. A lot of the routes were maintained for cargo.
The point of vaccination is that you reduce your chance of getting COVID in the first place, and greatly reduce you chances of ending up in the hospital or dead. Unvax’d have a much, much higher risk of hospitalization and death, and make up the vast majority of ICU admissions and deaths. Just like any vaccine, it’s not perfect, but it bends the odds way in your favor.
Nice bit of CCP PR to "prove" how patriotic the mainland pilots are compared to their colleagues a few miles away in the Fragrant Harbour who have the gumption to lobby for their mental and physical health while Beijing's boot is on the neck of CX.
That's the issue. Airlines are suffering not so much from the virus spread and vaccinations, but the harsh rules that apply. Who wants to travel if every time you get on or off a flight you might be up for a self funded stint in a crap hotel? That's not what I call travelling. Either we all fully vaccinate and open the place up using distancing and masks, or we just keep limping along while the virus keeps mutating. The third option is just to stop all flights, all travel and stay at home bunkered up for two weeks until this bastard virus dies out.
He’s done his service to “the state” like a good worker, no knock on this fine professional but they have their propaganda, nothing more nothing less… take this for what it it!
Fully vaccinated/boosted people aren't the problem right now (the anti-vaxxers are)...but good try at deflection
There’s still demand for travel between US and East Asia, though it is mostly green card holders and students nowadays.
"Plenty of fully vaccinated people, and even those with the booster shots, are getting it and spreading it." Plenty is an arbitrary number you made up. They aren't spreading it. Millions have died so 99% is misleading. ICUs report that the vast majority of covid patients are unvaccinated and wish they had just done it.
I just saw a SCMP article shaming and blaming the Cathay crew quarantine breakers for rising produce prices in Hong Kong and I think Omicron . I couldn’t read it all, it was behind a paywall. My friend did 42 days herself as a returning college student from Switzerland to Hong Kong. They take that sh1t seriously.
If he chose to and feels proud of it he is literally an idiot. Confuses resilience with submissiveness and does a weak favor to its colleagues in the Chinese speaking countries under 3 stupid governments, one more stupid than the next.
China has a strict crew quarantine policy .Flight crew are not allowed to work back-by-back. This means suppose a flight from CAN to LAX, usually they should change whole crew at LAX before fly back to CAN. They can't now due to CAAC regulation, so they have to bring another flight crew for LAX to CAN, and rest of cabin crew continue to serve for the return flight. After that, they need to stay in quarantine facility for one to two weeks for taking next flight mission.
That's also why most foreign carriers chose to change crew in Korean. To avoid letting crew overnight(over week actually..) in China.
In China, being a polit usually is a life-long contract. It's state-paid training so they can't resign that easy…