Australia is an amazing place and is on the bucket list of many American travelers. From the Sydney Harbour and its iconic Opera House to the Great Barrier Reef, on to the red center or outback, Australia has it all. I thought that I knew Australia well, managing a Tour Operator and wholesaler that promotes and creates Australian packages specifically for US travel agents. I have been working in and around Australia for a long time. I found out though, and happily so, there is still much more to see and discover. Read the rest of this entry »

​Last week, the CEO of American Airlines, Doug Parker said that checking passengers for proof of vaccination wouldn’t be physically possible on domestic flights without causing enormous delays to the airline system.

It’s tempting to compare Mr. Parker’s statements to similar ones made by tobacco and asbestos CEOs, who insisted that health authorities should not regulate their products. What he probably should have said was,“Without some form of proof that a person is vaxxed, and streamlined airport procedures, it isn’t physically possible for domestic flights to check passengers for proof of vaccination.”

Many of the problems airlines and airports encounter involving COVID-19 could be prevented if passengers couldn’t enter either without verified vaccination credentials and a one-minute COVID antigen swab test, or a breath analyzer test at a TSA security portal. Read the rest of this entry »