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3 Links I Love: Interview with Flair and Gatwick, Freedom One, Long Walks in Salt Lake

This Week’s Featured Link

Deep Dive: Interview With Flair Airlines CEO Stephen Jones – Airways Mag
This is a video production of just over 8 minutes that includes snippets of interviews with the CEO of Flair and others. Flair is one of several trying to make a go of ultra low cost flying in Canada. So far, nobody has really cracked that nut.

Video of the Week

Southwest doesn’t do a lot of special liveries anymore, but it put together one honoring the US flag to celebrate the airline’s 50th anniversary. At first I thought Southwest was bringing back the America West Ohio livery, but nay, it’s Freedom One for the whole US. Here’s a “making of” video which is always fun to watch.

Two for the Road

Gatwick Airport poised for a quick COVID-19 recovery once traffic resumes, says CEO – Future Travel Experience
If you’ve got an hour to spare, here’s an interview with the CEO of London’s Gatwick airport.

Long walk to new SLC airport terminal put to the test – Fox 13 Salt Lake City
There’s nothing quite like local news. “Everyone is saying the walk to gates at the new SLC is really long, so we’re gonna film ourselves walking.” Spoiler alert… it is really long.