United Airlines “European Style Business Class” [Roundup]

News and notes from all over the internet:

• When the US Banned Travel by non-US residents from several countries in Southern Africa (but not right away!) it was ostensibly to ‘buy time’ to deal with Omicron. Omicron wax already spreading in the US, and it’s not clear what we used this target time for precisely. Now that it is the dominant species here, it is clear that the ban on travel in southern Africa is in no way protective of Omicron. So it is be lifted. But not until December 31. Because reasons.
• The Westin Paris near Place Vendome has laid off all housekeeping and outsourced the function. I definitely wouldn’t stay there at this point…not out of ‘worker solidarity’, but out of a gamble on future cleanliness.
  

  As the luxury hotel reopened on Wednesday after long months of closure, 107 people, or the entire department that employs the chambermaids, housekeepers and the concierge, have already been laid off in favor of a subcontracting service provided by the Elior company.

• Gina Sheldon flew Air France flight AF334 from Paris to Boston at the end of her ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ trip to Italy. When she got home, discovered that the Christmas presents she’d put in her luggage were gone. The bag came from her Paris – Boston flight and was still a similar weight – because the presents had been replaced with dog food, shaving cream and old t-shirts.

  Since her tickets were issued by Delta Air Lines, she called them and couldn’t get through for hours. She should have been dealing with Air France, but now that the media is involved, Delta manages the connection between the passenger and the European airline, apparently allowing someone to access her bags between when they checked in and when they arrived in Boston. were delivered. The leather jacket she had bought for her daughter, “and the leather purses for relatives and friends” were gone, totaling about $3,000.

• European-style business class (blocked center seat) on United Airlines.
  

  WTF is this @United Airlines pic.twitter.com/BCU8mjEW2X

  — lillian holt (@lilliamgraceh) Dec 24, 2021

• Merry Christmas!
  

  It doesn’t matter what happens from here…the woman sitting in front of me on @AmericanAir just made my year with her head!! ️💚🤣 pic.twitter.com/eB0Pcn03QQ

  — Melissa Forman (@melissaforman) Dec 24, 2021

More of a view from the wing