Doug Picirillo of Arlington Heights travels more than 100,000 miles a year and has no intention of slowing down.
Editor’s note: The Facebook page of Doug Picirillo of Arlington Heights is replete with photos of exotic places and airport check-ins. As an information technology consultant, he visits a lot of clients in person, to the tune of more than 100,000 air miles a year. So he knows a bit about air travel both before and now in the era of the coronavirus.
I’m following the news about the coronavirus because I travel a lot. I work in information technology providing management consulting and enterprise software development.
Our customers can be anywhere. I manage a software team in India.
With all our family on the coasts, seeing them involves somebody getting on a plane.
We like to explore. “Staycation” isn’t a thing for us. We visited Israel in February on a study trip with our church.
The COVID-19 virus outbreak was already in the news when I left for India in January. I didn’t see much change in O’Hare, London or Chennai. You always see a few people wearing masks in international airports. I saw only a few more than usual.
Pictures that make it look like everybody is wearing a mask are misleading. On a recent flight only one of about 160 passengers was wearing one. Masks are not among the CDC’s top tips.
If you’re like me, you can’t find any hand sanitizer in the stores. I think American Airlines bought it all. Every counter has a bottle for employees and passengers.
Read more common sense travel tips here.
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