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A Delta plane enroute to Detroit Metro Airport from Paris was diverted to a remote Canadian island due to a violent passenger on Friday. 

The omicron variant of the Chinese coronavirus is reportedly 91 percent less fatal than the delta variant, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study released this week found.

While the omicron variant of coronavirus is highly infectious, Sotomayor was wrong: deaths and hospitalizations have been less frequent than for delta.

Scientists are suggesting the omicron variant may be milder than previous strains of coronavirus, according to a string of preliminary reports released Thursday in the UK and South Africa.

The director of South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) told Reuters on Tuesday the new coronavirus variant Omicron could “outcompete Delta,” a highly-transmissible strain of coronavirus that emerged before Omicron in India in December 2020.

British Airways has become the latest institution to adopt woke language codes, telling pilots to refrain from using the common airline greeting of “ladies and gentlemen” in an apparent attempt to become more gender-neutral.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is doubling down after it issued a “no tolerance” rule in January targeting “unruly” airline passengers, a phenomenon associated with the strict coronavirus regulations for fliers, including continually wearing a mask while at airports and on planes.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified the more contagious delta variant as the most dominant strain in the United States, comprising the majority of cases in the country for the two weeks ending Saturday, July 3.

Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, the chief scientist at the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), warned Monday that the pandemic is not over and said it is not yet time to return to normal and “encourage a lot of social mixing.”

The spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant of the Chinese coronavirus is reportedly “forcing” Biden administration officials to “rethink Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus] measures,” which could include re-instituting mask mandates — even among vaccinated people — according to reports.

A White House press charter plane set to travel to Europe was grounded Tuesday evening after cicadas caused mechanical issues with the engine.

There has been a “sea change” in House Republicans’ attitudes towards woke capital, RSC Chairman Jim Banks said.

Delta’s corporate political action committee (PAC) DeltaPAC will co-host a fundraiser with a top Coca-Cola executive for a controversial House Democrat who has falsely claimed the 2018 governor election in Georgia was “stolen” from Democrat Stacey Abrams, Breitbart News has learned.

Democrats and “cancel culture woke groups” are targeting Home Depot to set a precedent in left-wing political intimidation, Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) said on Wednesday’s edition SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption.

Corporations criticizing Georgia’s election law are profiting off of human rights abuses in China, Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA) said.

Heritage Action Executive Director Jessica Anderson praised the Arizona State Senate for passing HB 2569, a bill that prohibits the private funding of election administration, and said Gov. Doug Ducey “should promptly sign the bill into law.”

Monday on FNC’s “The Story,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) suggested Republicans and other conservatives that take issue with punitive actions taken by corporate America against Georgia for the passage of a law by the Georgia Assembly to shore up election integrity take on those companies with their own boycott.

A Boeing 757 plane operated by Delta Airlines has made an emergency landing at Salt Lake International Airport Monday afternoon due to engine issues, an airport spokeswoman told KUTV.

Amazon announced this week that it is purchasing Boeing airliners from Delta and WestJet and converting them from passenger planes to cargo jets to assist with a surge in online shopping. Amazon’s purchase of 11 Boeing 767-300 passenger jets is a sign of both its increasing dominance in the American economy as well as the airline’s struggles in the era of lockdowns.

Delta Air Lines has banned the former Navy SEAL credited with killing terrorist Osama bin Laden after he removed his mask during a recent flight.

As of June 16, President Donald Trump’s administration will bar all passenger planes originating in China from entry to the U.S.

Delta Air Lines is retiring its Boeing Co. 777 jumbo jets and replace them with Airbus SE aircraft — another victim of coronavirus.

Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has sold its entire holdings in U.S. airlines in the wake of the coronavirus.

Industry experts say airlines worldwide could lose as much as $30 billion this year, with Chinese carriers facing a $12.8 billion deficit.

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg’s campaign to make people feel “flight shame” if they travel by plane has led to the reduction of bookings in her native Sweden. Now the U.S. airline industry is worried that the trend could take hold in this country.

All flights will be suspended started Febuary 6 through April 30.

Passengers on a flight from Indianapolis to Detroit had to restrain a woman who allegedly attempted to open a plane’s exit door mid-flight on Monday evening.

Outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown has reached a deal with U.S. House Republican leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to extend the 2016 Water Infrastructure for Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act, which would provide more water to farmers and fund water storage in the state, to 2021.

Delta Airlines decided to ditch the plastic straws and stirrers on all flights starting next year, in keeping with recent trends in the travel, hospitality, and restaurant industries to ditch plastic for paper.

U.S. airlines that partially caved to Beijing’s demands on identifying Taiwan on their websites have requested an extension on further caving.

The three biggest U.S. airlines – American, Delta, and United – finally caved on Tuesday to China’s demands and changed their websites to no longer describe Taiwan as a country distinct from China. It might at best be seen as partial capitulation at the last possible moment, as the airlines now list Taiwan’s capital of Taipei as a city without a country instead of “Taipei, Taiwan.”

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), a close ally of the president and member of the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, said Tuesday that American companies should not give in to Chinese bullying.

China’s official Communist Party newspaper, the People’s Daily, published a tirade this weekend against family-owned American pet food company The Honest Kitchen for advertising that it locally sources ingredients and does not use and Chinese products in its recipes.

A billboard in Pensacola, Florida, proclaiming the “NRA is a Terrorist Organization” comes just under two weeks a “Kill the NRA” billboard in Kentucky.

Delta airlines lost a major tax break over ending discount fares for NRA members and it is now reported that they had only sold the reduced fare tickets 13 times.

Following Delta’s decision to cut ties with the NRA, the company’s CEO stressed that the airline is “not taking sides” in gun control debate.