It seems as though law enforcement was expecting violence tonight, which makes one wonder why they were not better prepared. A local CBS affiliate journalist reported on the air tonight that the police was making plans at 12 pm to evacuate the 3rd precinct. The building was eventually evacuated at 1...
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There is an element of intra-EU politics at play. German enterprises and the German economy at large have been among the most successful beneficiaries of EU integration. Partly out of a natural disposition against spendthriftness, but also partly to control competition, German governments have alway...
Jump to post...and we are all curious what Trump will put in an executive order today, and how much that in fact violates Freedom of Speech I wouldn't worry about it too much. There are still a few (young) adults in the White House who have been around Trump long enough to know that there's no arguing with the...
Jump to postCarsten Spohr told staff in a videoconference Lufthansa will run out of cash in July and may not be able to pay salaries in June,without a quick agreement on an aid package, as it may take as many as four weeks for the funds to reach the carrier. https://trends.levif.be/economie/politique-economique...
Jump to postWhat terrifies me is that I can see some day in the future, a so-called "good guy with a gun" walk into a seemingly similar situation where the detainee complains he is being asphyxiated or otherwise in lethal danger, the police officer does not appear to respond, and the good guy draws hi...
Jump to post[As per German media, the decision has only been postponed since nobody know whether and what limitations the EU will ask for. Doesn't the EU typically work the other way around? Meaning the parties present the competition commission an agreed upon deal on which the EU issues its conclusions? I may...
Jump to postCome on Texas! That would be a good venue change! Maybe South Texas, or the Panhandle..... I'd be ok with that. I hear Midland summers are bearable. Besides, it's not going to be Texas. As soon as it was mentioned, Pence narrowed it down to Georgia or Florida in one of the Sunday Morning talk shows...
Jump to postYou can easily walk into DAL, however you cannot walk to in DFW. Even though there are a couple of roads coming from residential neighborhoods on the West side of DFW, they have, to the best of my knowledge, no sidewalk. Mentioned above a few times, but I’d like to reiterate how scenic the walk to L...
Jump to postHow hard is it to figure out a modern car? Depends what you want out of it.... Clearly there are manufacturers that took the approach since dealers provide training nowadays, there's no need to make access to Bluetooth and car settings intuitive! When I have a long drive ahead of me, I am going to ...
Jump to postThe original publication out of Britain (which was likely the biggest study contributing to the worldwide lockdowns) estimated more than 2 million in the US without any risk mitigation. Now, somehow that number has climbed to 12 to 32 million? This is a dangerous virus, but it’s not Ebola. It's not...
Jump to postYou don't call a brothel "brothel". That doesn't mean it isn't registered as such. If it was done on the DL, there wouldn't be these windows. In fact isn't that a typically Belgian and Dutch thing ? By contrast in France if you rent an apartment to a prostitute, you can end up in jail. If...
Jump to postHere in the US, we're almost at 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 as of now. Yet in 2017 the following numbers of people died from these causes, according to the CDC: Current estimates are that the virus will stop spreading when we reach 70% herd immunity (70% of the population has the virus). In the US...
Jump to postOn this Memorial Day, our president wants us to remember what he is famous for... He is demanding that the governor of North Carolina gives assurances today that the Republican national convention will be allowed to operate at full capacity. This in a state that saw its highest one-day increase in n...
Jump to postFor plan B (voluntary administration chapter 11 style), Lufthansa cannot wait until the bitter end. This option is only available as long as there is liquidity in the company, so this is not going to be a neverending story. The time window to agree on a bailout deal with the state is closing quickl...
Jump to postWhen you thought things couldn't get any dumber, the US comes to the rescue Shops around the US make headlines for denying entry to those wearing masks This is the kind of stupidity that makes me firmly against granting businesses blanket liability waivers related to the corona virus. I am fine wit...
Jump to postThey should try to kill off F9 and NK (either buying them or driving them out of business). In re: slots, legacies will not make those available without going bankrupt first. WN might be able to get slots from B6, F9 or NK if they need cash and sell them. They should not, and if they try, they shou...
Jump to postIts a fair point, obviously all LH group now anyway but given ZRH-BRU was possibly the most ridiculously expensive flight on the planet you would have thought SN would have been in there on their metal before. Personally I am not surprised. Doesn't make sense to compete like that. However, because ...
Jump to postHertz was hit with a quadruple whammy: - A policy of acquiring a much larger portion of their fleet rather than leasing them compared to the competition left them exposed to a higher debt burden to finance their fleet; - They (will) have to take significant write-downs on the value of their owned fl...
Jump to postWhy is it the government's business what consenting adults do in their bedrooms with their own bodies? Why would a "license" of any kind be required? Police state mentality. Ordinarily I agree the government can regulate business for tax purposes. But, the government should not regulate p...
Jump to postWhy is it a good thing? Fred There is a huge amount sex trafficking from Eastern Europe countries. That is reason enough to ban it Trafficking is a problem whether prostitution is legal or not. It seems there are two divergent opinions among experts and stakeholders, one being that making prostitut...
Jump to postAs the government becomes a shareholder, it can do as any shareholder desires and formulate demands for the management. You are both right and wrong at the same time. It isn't a shareholder making a demand of management, but a future investor conditioning its investment to a management promise to t...
Jump to postbravotango75 wrote:Probably shut down IAH, DFW, and AUS in addition to MSY. Not a lot of prospects for 3rd tier markets, I doubt that BA will return to the smaller US destinations.
A relatively healthy person under 50 has more risk of getting struck by lightening than dying from covid, so why are we acting like this is a deadly plague, it is not. We could have done some very basic things like some reasonable social distancing and increase hygiene and enhanced measures for the...
Jump to postThis viral guy getting told off at Costco for refusing to wear a mask over 'freedom' is a new winner. It seems some Americans rabidly proclaiming their 'freedom' seem to forget that private property rights supersede whatever you feel like doing: https://twitter.com/elonjames/status/1262833283127226...
Jump to postVery similar comments - ‘my business sells X and is closed, but the supermarket/WalMart across the street sells ABC *and* X, and are ‘essential’ so they are open and taking my income away. Why can they stay open and I can’t?’ The governor of Michigan tried to avoid this very issue by drawing up lis...
Jump to postThe French (and Dutch) government didn't ask for 25% of the company for the support which AF/KL received. Thus the German government imposes stricter conditions as they did with Condor and what the French and Dutch have done. No, they asked for an end to all domestic flights where a train ride of 2...
Jump to postDo we seriously think that the DoD picks up the phone and calls the White House every time they're about to act in accordance with a policy long ago established that has survived multiple administrations from the left and the right? I can find fault with Trump and his administration all day every da...
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Jump to postWhen releasing test results, Texas is combining some antibody tests with its COVID detection test, but its count of positive tests includes only those from the detection test, which has the effect of artificially lowering the overall infection rate. When asked by the Texas Observer, a spokesman of t...
Jump to postThe freedom fighters opposing government tyranny are also opposing the tyranny of private property rights and refusing to wear masks even when asked to do so at a store...
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Anecdotal, but let’s say you wanted to book a weekend trip from LA to Vegas next month. Roundtrip on Southwest right now is $90. Same flight on the JSX website is over $1200. The major carriers will likely slash prices into and potentially through 2021; does JSX have the balance sheet to remain com...
Jump to postI am sick and tired of these fascist restrictions on our freedoms, our rights, and our lives. To quote our great leader, "if you're not happy here, you can leave." I hear Belarus has no restriction whatsoever. Go check it out. I support the lockdown protesters in the USA and I am stunned ...
Jump to postMO11 wrote:The company that filed for Chapter 11 is Superior Air Charter, which operates as JetSuite. Delux Public Charter, which operates as JSX Air, is a different company.
Snowflakes playing toy soldiers in Texas. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/us/coronavirus-businesses-lockdown-guns.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage I have no idea what they think they're achieving, but if they make themselves enough of a nuisance, the local authorities wi...
Jump to postLHG can also restructure SN in a way that many more jobs get lost. If the government thinks SN can survive on its own as a nationalised airline and not cost them a fortune to eventually sell it off cheap anyway they’re mistaken. AMS up north, LHR to the west, FRA/DUS to the east and CDG to the sout...
Jump to postCourts have long ago taken the approach that contractual agreements are not suicide pacts. If a party can demonstrate that circumstances unforeseen at the time of the contract make it impossible to honor all the terms of the contract, and that they are taking reasonable steps to come as close to as ...
Jump to postSounds to me like a case of a governor butt-hurt that her do-nothing strategy has been overridden by people she has no control over. Considering the state had its highest new daily infections so far only yesterday, I can't blame them for questioning the wisdom of her decision. Besides the only tribe...
Jump to postExactly. And how many Germans have those carriers repatriated from around the world? Ooops, apart from Norwegian they wouldn't even have the equipment to repatriate from New Zealand... And while Lufthansa was repatriating Germans and non-Germans from New Zealand, other German and non-German airline...
Jump to postAmerican to store its entire fleet of A330-200s until 2022 at the earliest. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2020/05/06/american-airlines-is-parking-another-line-of-jets-with-a-dismal-forecast-travel-demand/ It had previously announced the early retirement of its A330-300s, so this lates...
Jump to postActually, scientists in France have more questions than answers so far on how the virus reached the country. It's been reported by various French news sources not known for peddling conspiracy theories such as RFI (Radio France International - France's version of Voice of America - linked to by the ...
Jump to postBut today? Tuesday is a day people who need to earn a living spend working, not voting Since when you spent the entire 24 hours of an election day voting? common sense says you can take your kids to school, work, go to vote in between, or after, it only takes 10 minutes or 15 max. If you can spare ...
Jump to postTo my unserstanding there is no vote by mail system in the US, could someone explaine to me why? Because the easier it is to vote, the harder it is for Republicans to get elected. Don't take my word for it, the "stable excellence in leadership," to borrow shamelessly from the OP, said so....
Jump to postIf the Nobel committee has any street smart, they'll create a one-off award for the furtherance of the war on intelligence and offer it to Trump in a tweet. He'll accept in a nanosecond.
Jump to postBA has a contract with DHL to pick up excess freight bound for the EU that accumulates in LHR, however I think the contract commits DHL to run a flight on weekends only. If BA gets enough volume to fill a 777 instead of multiple narrowbodies or calling on DHL for more lift, I think it’s a win all ar...
Jump to postAnd no, vote by mail won't cut it. Why? Because Trump said it would favor Democrats? Are you so sure he is right though? I mean, do millennials even know how to close and mail an envelope these days? It's the Trump boomers who have the most experience with and faith in mail after all.... and also t...
Jump to postPlease read the sources. There are rules in Switzerland. This rules state, that Easyjet Switzerland does not qualify. Interestingly due to the low turnover they qualify for other government help programs. It is clearly stated who qualifies for which program and therefore you do not need to politici...
Jump to postI don't think Europe has an interest in escalating the trade war with the US. Eye for an eye means if somebody pokes out your eye, you may poke out his. But not more than that. It's a law to prevent escalation. And just because the British wanted to do their own thing we should punish them? I want ...
Jump to postdm22 wrote:Nooooo...the flight attendants will be onboard for fire suppression since the cabin is not properly equipped; not to feed the pilots.
Interesting that the airport lists these as pax flights rather than cargo flights. And they are parked at pax gates with bridges rather than at the cargo aprons. Officially, most of these flights operate as passenger flights under the bilateral and multi-lateral treaties regulating air traffic betw...
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