India Business News: The inaugural flight of Air India's longest direct route San Francisco (SFO) - Bengaluru (BLR) with four women pilots has taken off on Sunday morni
SAN FRANCISCO Passengers onboard a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday were captured on video chanting USA and singing the national anthem on board the plane.
This came ahead of Wednesday s chaotic scene in Washington, D.C. where rioters and supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the capitol building as Congress was set to approve electoral ballots for President-elect Joe Biden.
Biden is set to take office later this month.
In the video, passengers can also be heard saying Trump s name. I told the girl sitting next to me we should get everyone to sing a song and we were nervous to do it but we could feel the energy and excitement building as we landed, Lisa Lamping, who took the video, told Storyful. So the two of us just started to sing. Her name was Natalie from Boise Idaho.
Routes: COVID testing picks up steam + JetBlue at SFO, animals on Alaska, 737 Max, more
A weekly roundup of airline and airport route and service news.
Jim Glab
FacebookTwitterEmail
JetBlue is set to start some new routes from San Francisco.Dreamstime / TNS
In route news this week, the U.S. might soon require all arriving travelers to get a negative COVID test result – something Canada and Turkey are doing as well; a new website helps travelers locate COVID testing facilities worldwide; JetBlue will add two domestic routes from San Francisco in the weeks ahead, and one route to Mexico from Sacramento; Alaska Airlines plans to ban emotional support animals from its aircraft; the first 737 Max planes are back in the air, with more to come; XpresSpa partners with Hawaiian Airlines for more airport COVID testing; Aer Lingus is added to the American Airlines-British Airways joint venture; and Emirates brings a premium economy cabin to its long-haul aircraft.