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Re:Delta Air Lines doesn’t want to call delta variant the ‘d... by elicash on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:02AM (#28327264)
People are more concerned about COVID when flying than they are buying beer, possibly. Certainly a beer commercial can have a different tone than what you find at airports in these times. I'm not sure they should lean into it.

That said, NYT did a fantastic job visualizing how air circulates on planes and it made me feel safer about flying:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/17/travel/flying...

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Re:Delta Air Lines doesn’t want to call delta variant the ‘d... by bluefirebrand on Friday August 27, 2021 @10:34AM (#28328314)
I still don't feel safe with flying. Literally every time I get on a plane I get sick, you cannot convince me they are safe against the spread of Covid. There's more to that than just air circulation.
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Re:Delta Air Lines doesn’t want to call delta variant the ‘d... by jliptzin on Friday August 27, 2021 @11:35AM (#28329178)
I agree, I really don’t understand how air circulation helps when you’re in a middle seat and the two people beside you have their masks off to eat peanuts and are coughing every 2 min
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Re:Delta Air Lines doesn’t want to call delta variant the ‘d... by account42 on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:24AM (#28327498)
> That said, NYT did a fantastic job visualizing how air circulates on planes and it made me feel safer about flying:

I think this would have worked much better as a video - both from a usability and from a data compression perspective.

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Re:Delta Air Lines doesn’t want to call delta variant the ‘d... by koolba on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:03AM (#28327281)
It was even better back when they allowed smoking.
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Re:Delta Air Lines doesn’t want to call delta variant the ‘d... by koolba on Friday August 27, 2021 @11:54AM (#28329390)
I’m referring to the overall air quality which was better back when you could smoke because the airlines were forced to change the air more aggressively. You can’t hide smoke as easily as invisible stagnant air.

https://www.traveller.com.au/reader-letters-visiting-parliam...

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