Flight attendance: airlines after the pandemic
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Which carriers will thrive? Long-haulers or short-hoppers? The no-frills or the glitzy? The bailed-out or the muddled-through? Our industry editor scans the skies. Record numbers of Latin American migrants heading for America’s southern border mask another trend: many are stopping and making a home in Mexico. And Japan’s storied but declining public bathhouses get hipster makeovers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:09.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:14.0 | Latin American migrants fleeing violence and seeking a better life are now heading toward America's southern border in record numbers. |
| 0:25.6 | What's missing from that long-running story is the increasing number that choose instead to stay in Mexico. |
| 0:32.6 | And there's a lot of history and not just a little sociology in Japan's tradition of public bathhouses. |
| 0:40.7 | They've been in slow decline in recent decades, |
| 0:43.7 | but a movement is building to save them, |
| 0:45.8 | and many are benefiting from a hipster makeover. |
| 0:57.0 | But first... The number of air travelers is as high as it's been during the pandemic, at least in America. |
| 1:06.0 | We are going to sue you! |
| 1:08.0 | Everyone to take their seats right now. |
| 1:11.7 | But if you're going to fly, you might want to brace for some unruly behavior. |
| 1:16.8 | By last week, America's aviation regulator had logged more than 500 investigations into it this year. |
| 1:22.8 | A doctor, can several more put on your mask, put on your mask, put on your mask, bathroom trips. |
| 1:28.3 | Okay, now if I slap the phone off your hand, then it's a valid behavior and snorting a white substance. |
| 1:34.3 | For comparison, there were only around 150 in all of 2019, when a great many more people were flying. |
| 1:43.3 | Truth is that even on the ground, the airline industry is a bare-knuckle business. |
| 1:48.0 | Profits are hard to come by. |
| 1:50.0 | Companies are born, learn to fly, and go bust all year long. |
| 1:55.0 | It's airlines' earnings season, and tomorrow investors will be watching Delta's results, |
| 2:00.0 | probably still in the reds, |
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