Christina Rodriguez Created: May 11, 2021 01:04 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Southwest Airlines has released its summer schedule, which includes the return of more flights to the Albuquerque International Sunport.
Direct flights to Austin, Texas and Los Angeles, California will return to the Sunport.
“These new cross-country flights are a reflection of the increased demand the Sunport has seen in recent weeks, and the months of work the team there has put in to reconnecting these flights,” Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller said. “New flights and more daily travelers are great news for the city and for the families who have put off travel for over a year.”
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Bird Song of the Day
Really does sound like a bell!
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At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching.
The Northeast jump looks like enormous data error; the CDC data doesn’t show it, so it’s down to Johns Hopkins of DIVOC-19; I’ve written the maintainer. UPDATE No response from the maintainer. I think I’ll try the telephone. (Here are the data status updates.)
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