I’m sorry, folks, but you have to suspend your paradise plans again, as Hawaii is spreading its quarantine for visitors.
Sorry friends, but you still have to put your paradisiacal projects in …
On this week’s TravelSkills on SFGATE…
This week, the SFO revealed that it now has an immediate COVID-19 control site in operation only for airline and airport staff. Time will tell if it will ever be open to travelers as it has in many other countries. Could it be that COVID-19 control is the new popular for air travel? Read: SFO opens the first COVID-19 immediate control site at U.S. airport.
On airline news: American will remove 15 pins from its national roadmap in October; United is expanding flights to Shanghai from the OFS and Emirates is making plans to return to the airport next month; The United SFO-Santa Maria service is delayed; United and Air Canada are switching SFO aircraft to Vancouver and Toronto respectively; Volaris will climb a new address to Mexico from Mineta San José; Delta will continue its empty middle seat policy during the year-end vacation and will also increase its replacement fee waiver; and Southwest is uploading a new service to a Colorado ski destination. Read: Roads: Americans retire in small towns, U.S. To China, United Arab Emirates, Delta headquarters
You think all the road warriors who made 20, 30 or 40 trips a year to their employer or business would be the first to return to the airport as a result of the coronavirus accident. But we’re starting to think that it will take years for companies to regain their old volume, if they ever succeed. Read: When will the business resume? Probably not for years
A former Navy SEAL who claimed to have killed Osama bin Laden was banned through Delta Air Lines after cutting off his face mask on a flight. He tweeted about his ban on Thursday and the airline showed the action. O’Neill posted a selfie appearing, unmasked, on a Delta Connection flight Wednesday from Minneapolis to Newark, New Jersey. Leave me alone! Apparently, he now needs a meeting with Delta’s CEO. Read: Delta bans Bin Laden’s alleged killer for not wearing a mask
No aloha. If you were hoping to escape the California wildfire season and fly to Hawaii, you should postpone those plans… Again. After hinting last week that Hawaii might not reopen tourists on September 1, after all, Gov. David Ige made it official, delaying the reopening date. Read: Hawaii delays reopening of tourists to autumn
Surf Air, the personal “all you can eat” personal air operator founded on a club that has taken Silicon Valley executives from one assembly to another along the West Coast, is expanding its recreational flights in reaction to the growing call of the rich to Californians who need fewer foreigners sitting next to them on their next trip. The Southern California-founded company began promoting personal charter flights designed for weekend getaways last week. Read: As businesses decline, the airline woos the crowd of weekends
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The coronavirus pandemic has created new cracks in society along generational and political lines, and a new survey indicates that these cracks also appear among airline passengers. A new survey of 10,000 travelers who flew at least once in the year before the pandemic found that the point of convenience of returning to the sky varies significantly depending on age, political association and flight duration. Read: Will most airfarers be young Republicans in the future?
Chris McGinnis is SFGATE’s senior correspondent. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @cjmcginnis Facebook: @TravelSkills