1/ Saw a client today - pilot for big international carrier not Air NZ.
Home on extended sabbatical, one of 30% of his colleagues still with a job. "What's it actually like out there?" "Like a science fiction movie". Vast swathes of the world just dark. Cities just dark. Flying

2/ into places with 18 of their 20 runways dark. Met by people in essentially hazmat suits in empty airports. Full sanitisation (sprayed down) three times between aircraft and street. No one in the street. Anyone moving about in masks or more just to.move. Can't leave the hotel.

3/ Airline and most of its staff try hard not to have to fly to USA. No one wants to fly into the USA - "It's a shit show". Mentioned how any wish we had to travel is pretty much done now. He said "There's nothing out the better than this. Honestly. It's different, sure, but

there's nothing as good as this"