What movies would you show at your airport during the COVID-19 crisis?Here’s The Moodie Blog’s suggestions.
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Events
Why rice will never turn to gold at The Moodie Davitt Report
Work harder than you have ever worked in your life; don’t believe you have a right to survive – whole sectors have been hit, even eradicated by disrupters and Black Swans and the latter don’t come much blacker than COVID-19.
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People
In loving memory – A tribute in words and music to Sheila Geoghegan
I saw the danger, yet I passed along the enchanted way; And I said, let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day: We pay tribute in words & music to Barry Geoghegan’s late mother.
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Events
How Chaps Holland learned to never wash alone
Gerry Marsden would be reaching for his Pacemaker if he ever heard the travel retail reworking of his (and originally Rodgers & Hammerstein’s) song that became a famous Liverpool FC anthem.
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Events
Theirs not to reason why, theirs just to do and die
The President of the United States last night gave a televised performance more befitting of the madman Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg in the 1954 film The Caine Mutiny.
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People
Wild Tiger still roaring… with a temporary purr
You can’t keep a good man down. So there’s no way one of travel retail’s most irrepressible characters, Wild Tiger Rum founder Gautom Menon is going to let a global pandemic stop his non-stop innovation programme.
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People
Gone to spend some time with the Angel from Montgomery
So if you’re walking down the street sometime/And spot some hollow ancient eyes/Please don’t just pass ‘em by and stare/As if you didn’t care, say, “Hello in there, hello”.
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Airports
How OFC became the world’s busiest airport
BKY and PAT have been experiencing big surges in weekend volumes, while traffic through WNC (which now offers direct connections to/from DNR and PAT) has hit unexpected all-time highs.
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Events
Hanging tough in the Self-Isolation Bureau
Another thing is exposed in crisis. Your values. How you treat people. Customers, staff, colleagues. Don’t demand assistance and not give it. Remember, people will remember how you treated them during this crisis.
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Events
Zooming in on travel retail and freeing the Furloughed four
Some great wines were ‘shared’ and some great, and often very moving, stories told. Wine – and Zoom – ensured that while we might be isolated, we are not alone.
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Miscellaneous
Breakfast with the birds at Chez Moodie
One family man, an ex-duty free executive, rendered jobless by the shutdown of the hospitality industry, is going to work for Amazon rather than take a government handout, figuring the money is needed more by others. You are the man Steve.
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Events
My Wilson moment in the Moodie Davitt Castaway Bureau
“Sorry, terms & conditions apply.” If you’re told that, remind the party concerned that so will terms and conditions when the good times return. As in who you do business with.
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People
Bringing it all back home, again
I’m one of the lucky ones. There are countless dispossessed, poor, war-torn men, women and children who are suffering far greater hardship than the novelty of having to work from home.