American airlines scheduling FULL flights now.

[trof]

Just heard on CBS/60 minutes.
Great.

[OrlandoDem2]

1. It's why I am not flying now.

[Maven]

2. Absolutely insane. It's money over people, always, in America. nt

[captain queeg]

3. What could go wrong?

Those of us who are older are more careful but these younger people are still rolling the dice. It could be bad for anyone.

[Skittles]

4. my airline pilot buddy says

no matter how much spacing they do on a plane, people still stand up as soon as the seat belt sign is off and jam the aisle

[trof]

6. So do I.

Wait...am I him?
Or do you have ... others?

[Skittles]

12. LOLOL

well, he is my on and off again bf; I met him when I was a teenager (airgal) and processed him into an Air Force base.....lost touch with him, then he called me 30 years later when he was an airline pilot; he retired from that and now he just flies rich assholes around

[trof]

13. Aw jeez...

I'm crushed.
I thought we had something...'special'.

[Skittles]

14. VIRTUALLY special, for sure

this is funny, when he was an airline pilot he complained that he was a "glorified bus driver" - LOL, Air Force boys with their toys never get out of that fighter pilot mode do they

[trof]

15. I'll settle for that.

Yeah, once a fighter pilot always an inflated ego and sense of abilities.
"When things get too tough and scary for everybody else they're just right for me."

[Salviati]

5. Another reason that I'll never fly AA again.

Other than my experiences every other time I've flown with them in the past.

[brewens]

7. If anyone buys tickets from them and gets screwed out of their money when they have to immediately

turn around and start cancelling flights, they have it coming to them.

[Dem2theMax]

8. Oh goody. Spread it around the country even more.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. How can people sit 8 inches from each other in coach and have social distancing?

this is ridiculous

[Bev54]

10. Oh wonderful

We have far less problems here in Canada and our airlines, just reopening and will not be flying with full flights. WTH are they thinking?

[dhill926]

11. I used to fly a lot...nothing since Feb. for obvious reasons....

I'm a Delta FF, and they are still leaving the middle seat open until the end of September I think. The very few times I've flown AA in the last 10 years, they have absolutely sucked. It can't be a coincidence that the few flights I've flown have just happened to be bad. It's systemic. They suck...

[hedda_foil]

16. Best of all, AA is based in Texas!

No problem with the virus or mask compliance there.

[DFW]

17. Two out of three flights I was on yesterday were just about completely full

The first, Düsseldorf to Hamburg, was maybe 80% full. The next (and longest) from Hamburg to Barcelona was jammed.

The last leg, the evening flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf was only maybe half full. Of course, here in Westfalia, yesterday was the start of the state vacation period, so lots of people were looking to get away.

At least everyone wore their masks and didn't move around a lot.

[trof]

19. Damn, I envy your life.

I had a taste of it with my airline years.
Now I'm nearing octogenarian(ism)?and don't leave the house without a surgical mask.

Enjoy it while you can.
I know you will.

[DFW]

21. I still do, I admit it.

I figure I'm maybe 10-12 years away from retirement (age 68--at 80, I'm gonna hang it up, too). Ya gotta die of something, I don't want it to be boredom.

In Germany, they won't close the plane's door if there is a passenger without a mask. I noticed on the train back from Belgium today, there were a few without a mask, ("furriners," a few Russians and a few Arabs), but most cooperated. Those that didn't were invited to do so in no uncertain terms, and did eventually.

Our friends here see the reports, like everywhere, giving the impression that all of the USA is like south Florida. They are imploring my wife not to go, but Massachusetts is one of the safest places in the country right now, and she doesn't plan on leavng the State while she is there. Plus, we will be staying in an isolated house out in Truro. Central Truro is also known as the Massachusetts version of the Middle of Nowhere. I, of course, am free to travel down to Dallas, catch the virus and go on life support.

[trof]

22. We lived in Merrimack, NH for 15 years, near Boston,

and our daughter and family live in Melrose MA.
We used to vacation on the cape near Nobska Point lighthouse every summer.
I really like New England, just not the snow so much.

Stay well.

[DFW]

23. Thanks, you too!

The snow was never my thing, either. Southerners rarely develop an affinity for it, I think. Except for southern Germans, as the Alps are down south here.

If it weren't for the cumbersome logistics, I'd like to divide it thusly: spring here in Europe, summer on the Cape, fall in the rest of New England and Virginia, Winter in Spain, Texas and Hawai'i. Fear not, I have no illusions about ever realizing any of that.

[brooklynite]

18. Delta is blocking all middle seats through August

[DFW]

24. Thanks for that info!

I have to book a few domestic flights while in the States, and that will make a difference. Since I have to go to Dallas, it will mean probably a couple of plane changes in Atlanta, but we're used to that. In the South, as legend has it, if you die and go to heaven, you still have to change in Atlanta.

[DSandra]

20. Cases like this are an indictment of American Capitalism

Brutal neoliberal lassieze faire economics that are an acute danger to society.