42 / GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
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Cancel culture
Booze ban inflight Finnish national flag carrier Finnair has been forced to ban alcohol sales on its domestic flights, after 17:00, to comply with its government's Covid-19 regulations. The rules were designed to reduce drinking in bars and restaurants on the ground and hence reduce the risk of pressures on the national hospitals coping with the pandemic but they were subsequently also confirmed to apply to service inflight. @Finnair
Aviation analytics business Cirium reports December 2021 was the busiest month of the year for flight cancellations globally. The total number of flights cancelled was 2.43 million, with 59,240 of those taking place between December 24 and January 3. Cancellations were due to operational challenges around the Omicron surge and winter weather, and took numbers six times higher than in 2019 and two and half times higher than in 2020. 20,500 flights were cancelled in the first three days of the new year 2022 alone. @cirium
Job swap Girl power Staff at LSG Sky Chefs in Angola have been doing their bit to support a shelter for abandoned girls (Associação de Apoio a Criança Abandonada) with treats and food donations. As part of an on-going commitment, they donated food essentials such as 20kg of fish, 15kg chicken legs, 10kg of butter and 10kg of beans which were all used to provide hot meals for the girls, plus sweets from Germany. @lsgskychefs
SATS staff from across the organisation have been given the chance to step into the shoes of a colleague. As passenger numbers began to increase at Changi Airport SATS staff were encouraged to volunteer and try out in passenger service roles such as Counter Ambassadors and Gate Duty Ambassadors to assist their Gateway colleagues in frontline operations. The process helped ease co-worker stress at peak times and gave colleagues new insights into each other's roles. @SatsGroup
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