Life, Travel, & Security After a Pandemic

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4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

U.S. retail sales have plummeted as Americans cut back spending on non-essential items. Chinese businesses are largely up and running again, although CNBC Beijing Bureau Chief Eunice Yoon says life in the aftermath of the coronavirus looks very different from life before it. Mobile phones generate unique barcodes of health and travel data, and hazmat suits and temperature checkpoints are part of the country’s new normal. CEO of touchless airport security company CLEAR explains handsfree travel technology and health data collection in a post-Covid world. Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun is facing some backlash after he said that a major airline carrier may not survive the Covid crisis. CNBC’s Phil Lebeau discusses airline leadership and how lawmakers are now getting involved in the effort to socially distance plane passengers. Pilot Dennis Tajer, spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association, is calling for concrete guidance from the FAA and the Department of Transportation to keep the industry from collapsing.

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0:00.0	This is So gas is cheap, but you got nowhere to go.
0:13.0	Life after a pandemic,
0:15.0	C. NBC Beijing Bureau Chief Eunice Eun on what our future could be.
0:18.0	Right now we have like registration of ID,
0:21.0	temperature checks, the health code, the travel itinerary that's generated on your
0:25.2	mobile phone that creates a barcode, and flying after COVID, clear CEO Karen Seidman Becker on
0:31.1	touchless travel technology.
0:33.0	I see a day where we need significant amounts of data to health insights around COVID to create a safe travel environment.
0:43.6	And one pilot says he and his colleagues need concrete action
0:47.1	from the FAA as well as the Department of Transportation
0:50.0	if airlines are ever going to recover. They're giving us a platform of jello to stand firmly on.
0:55.6	That's not going to work.
0:56.5	Slogans don't work.
0:57.8	Actual actions work, and it has to be concrete.
1:01.4	It's Friday, finally, how can you tell? May 15, 2020, Squawk Pot begins right now.
1:08.0	Good morning everybody. Welcome to Squawk Box here on C NBC. I'm Becky Quick along with Joe Kernan and Andrew Ross
1:13.8	Sorkin. First up today on the podcast nobody shopping. Retail spending
1:21.0	plunged in April as the coronavirus pandemic forced the American consumer home and out of restaurants stores even gas stations.
1:29.6	The April retail sales drop of 16.4% broke the record set just last month.
1:36.0	Now online retail sales are up, including a statistic I think I have directly influenced
1:41.5	pajama sales up 150% last month.
1:44.4	But the American consumer is our backbone, typically
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