Business Traveler, Dec/Jan 2021
D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 0 J A N U A R Y 2 0 2 1 b u s i n e s s t r a v e l e r u s a c o m 9 U P F R O N T Pan Am The Game Newly minted and the perfect gift for frustrated frequent flyers Pan Am The Game by Funko Toys allows players to acquire stock for their own fledgling airlines and play against the legendary Juan Trippe and his near mythic Pan Am World Airways The game has the look of the Golden Age of Travel Aircraft playing pieces range from Clippers to 1960s jets Destination cards look like mini retro posters from faraway places with strange sounding names like Havana Gander and Saigon The game is played on a large board depicting a map of the world zigzagged with Pan Ams routes 3499 funko com In the November elections 58 percent of California voters approved Proposition 22 a win for rideshare giants Uber and Lyft along with other companies that rely on gig workers The ballot measure means the companies wont be required to classify their drivers as employees requiring benefits such as full minimum wage overtime pay and sick leave Had Prop 22 failed at the polls both Lyft and Uber had previously threatened to pull out of the state because of the higher operating costs that it would take to comply with the law uber com lyft com CALIFORNIAS PROP 22 PASSES Helsinki Airport is testing whether dogs can be an efficient method of identifying passengers infected with COVID 19 The dogs sensitive noses are expected to speed up the process because they are able to smell the virus with almost 100 percent certainty according to researchers from the University of Helsinki Using a much smaller sample the canines can also identify the virus days before the symptoms have even started something that laboratory tests fail to do finavia fi Helsinki Tests COVID Sniffing Dogs The UKs Competition and Markets Authority has given the current Atlantic Joint Business Agreement AJBA between American Airlines British Airways Iberia Finnair and Aer Lingus a three year extension Since 2018 the deal has been under investigation for the loss of competition on US UK routes which resulted in the airlines agreeing to give up some London US slots However given the uncertainty created by the coronavirus the CMA extended the current agreement ruling that vacating the slots now would not be appropriate aa com iairgroup com American IAG Deal Extended
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