Swine flu has drifted, for the most part, off newspaper front pages and out of the evening news here in the U.S. but it is still going strong elsewhere. In Japan, Sumo wrestlers are suffering, in India, swine flu is back on TV with more deaths, in Argentina flu deaths have more than doubled.
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British Airways is asking its check-in staff to be on the lookout for passengers who exhibit swine flu symptoms.
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During the recent FAA Reauthorization Act of 2009 hearings before the House Subcommittee on Aviation, Patricia Friend, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants, testified that various airline policies essentially forced flight attendants with flu-like symptoms to work.
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The Mexican government is launching a massive campaign to lure tourists back to the country after the outbreak of swine flu or more correctly, the H1N1 virus. But some people wonder whether or not government officials and the media went too far in dramatizing its seriousness and crippling a sector of the country’s economy.
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Here’s a swine flu story with a happy ending. Back in March, I booked a trip for three women who wanted an inexpensive girls mini-break: three nights from San Francisco to Puerto Vallarta.
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Travel insurance just took a new turn. Cruise lines are now screening passengers to see if they are healthy enough to travel (i.e. do they have flu-like symptoms). In some cases, it’s no longer only up to the passenger to cancel their cruise.
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Pardon me for yawning at the latest headlines screaming panic over the dreaded H1N1 flu strain, which prior to its modifier make-over, was called ‘swine flu.’ It’s not that I don’t have any interest in topics of concern to my well being. It’s that I tend to take the opposite view of the Biden health prescription, which seems to be a run for the hills approach.
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Continental has reduced service to Mexico “citing lower demand as the deadly strain of flu spreads.” It is the first major US carrier to do so.
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Christopher Ambler and his family were excited to escape the cool Seattle climate and catch some much needed sun on their Royal Caribbean cruise to Mexico. Imagine his horror to learn the family’s entire Mexican cruise was no longer going to Mexico and that it would be cruising to the Pacific Northwest with a stop in, you guessed it, Seattle.
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