IS a mix of International travel "rules" and "regulations" injurious to the travel industry and the public?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/travel/covid-vaccinated-travel-reality.html 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/geoffwhitmore/2021/06/18/summer-travel-restrictions-update-for-june-2021/?sh=574aba0f4024 

If you live in the USA and read the blog, you will know that I am an advocate of traveling well for less $$$.

     In the USA, it seems that higher prices for hotels and air travel here in the states are accepted.  The accepted travel experts maintain that occupancy rates are rising in hotels and airlines are showing an increase in passenger levels.  Airports are crowded and long lines are evidenced by the videos played in the mainstream visual media legacy and cable channels.

     When it comes to international travel, I refer to the mainstream media, like The New York Times AND a recognized travel organization, FORBES, to tell me whether I am going to have to adhere to a mix of "many" "rules" and "regulations" with regard to my post-pandemic travel.

     I can give you my personal opinion, insofar as I have been in the travel business wearing many hats for over 3 decades, i. e.:

     CTC (Certified Travel Counselor by the prestigious Travel Institute)

     Hotel Industry executive marketing for various franchise hotel chains

     International airline district Supervisor

     Although I prefer to relate what I remember as a absolute necessity for any International travel during those 3 decades I was employed in the travel industry:

Every time I traveled internationally I was vaccinated with a variety of preventative shots, I had to carry my stamped by a health professional "yellow" card wherever I traveled.  Most often, if I needed a Visa, I had to send a copy of the original yellow card to that country for a specified period of stay.

 

All the readers of this blog know I have been warning about the possibility of much more $$$ for travel domestic or international, because the standard of living for the middle class worker is in the process of change. 

Here's how:

1.     For the ordinary worker toiling at a specific wage the onset of higher taxes and inflation will take its toll.

2.     For the middle class, or what some may still prefer to refer to as the bourgeoisie, working for state or country where you reside keeps you in the "middle class" and you will have the money to continue your travel oriented lifestyle IF you are on pension payouts.

Here are some predictions:

1.      Those long summer paid for vacation times for teachers who are members of the Teachers Union in the USA will continue plump up the travel industry because their wages for the most part are indexed to rates of inflation.

       2.  For the next 4 years prices are going up and up to travel anywhere, NO MORE "comfort for less $$.

* PLEASE NOTE:        

Let I be considered an insurrectionist or a domestic terrorist.  In this post and succeeding posts in this era of crimes against the state, I am asking questions. 

I have no opinions. 

It is my understanding that the host of this blog, Google,  has announced a ban on YouTube for speech that would create  a conflict.  I am not certain about what Google feels is not in the best interest of their policy and the public policy.

I do hope that Google launches a "badge" program to show that published blogspot posts have been approved, then like a Good Housekeeping Seal I can proudly display it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 2021 do consumers want a better flight experience but can smarter regulation provide something other than a "cattle car" flight experience?

 Are you looking forward this summer of 2021 to post COVID travel in the  airline cattle cars? 

Insofar as domestic USA travel, prices are going up and airlines are using larger aircraft to accommodate the customers who don't seem to care if they travel arm to arm in rows that barely allow for wheeling luggage down the smaller aisles that  are no longer the required distance apart post COVID for passengers that may or may not be required to show vaccination cards, are booking their flights now.  Nevertheless, airlines are claiming smarter regulation would provide a better flight.

However, when airline deregulation took place in 1978 there were some in the travel and aviation community who foresaw the consequences of what was wrought,  nonetheless, consumers were thrilled by the low prices and failed to notice the airlines became a Greyhound bus experience even for the upper class passengers.

Fast forward to after 9/11.

The hassles of security and taking off shoes plus more intensive searches became necessary when "a treat all the same attitude" meant even the elderly with hip replacements were forced to endure a strip search, and little children were not immune if the security equipment sounded an alarm.  And then the planes were larger and the security lines longer and the space tighter.

Fast more forward to the "Disability Act."

Airlines forced to accommodate even miniature horses, dogs that were emotionally required that were aggressive and not potty trained, planes built with less leg room, and reclining seats tilt with no rules requiring how far.  And then came the pandemic with airlines recirculating cabin air indiscriminately without air circulation minimum requirements, still with no "government mandated minimum air circulation" rules into the summer of 2021 for domestic USA travel.

The question I leave you to determine, can the airlines really provide smarter regulation to improve your 2021 travel by plane experience?

https://www.airlines.org/our-priorities/ 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/04/02/cheap-summer-flights-vaccinated-travel/ 

* PLEASE NOTE:        

Let I be considered an insurrectionist or a domestic terrorist.  In this post and succeeding posts in this era of crimes against the state, I am asking questions. 

I have no opinions. 

It is my understanding that the host of this blog, Google,  has announced a ban on YouTube for speech that would create  a conflict.  I am not certain about what Google feels is not in the best interest of their policy and the public policy.

I do hope that Google launches a "badge" program to show that published blogspot posts have been approved, then like a Good Housekeeping Seal I can proudly display it.