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- | President Donald Trump late Thursday threatened a 35% tariff on goods imported from Canada, a dramatic escalation in an on-again, off-again trade war with America’s northern neighbor and one of its most important trading partners. | + | Their five minute airplane chat led to lasting love [[https:// |
- | And, in a separate NBC News interview, he suggested blanket tariffs on other US trading partners will jump, as well. | + | On a recent transatlantic flight from Florida to London Heathrow, married flight attendants Hunter Smith-Lihas and John Lihas locked eyes across the aisle. |
- | The Thursday actions are the latest examples of a whipsaw policy that’s left investors, trading partners, businesses and everyday Americans alike scrambling to make plans even as the economic ground shifts not just from week to week but in some cases from hour to hour. | + | The two men smiled at each other, before swiftly returning |
- | It wasn’t immediately clear if the new tariffs, set to take effect August 1, would apply to all Canadian goods or if Trump’s threat applied only to the limited number of goods on which the United States currently levies tariffs. | + | This shared smile was fleeting, but spoke volumes. And later, when Hunter and John were on break at the same time, the couple found themselves sitting in the onboard crew lounge, reflecting |
- | “Throughout | + | “I met you for five minutes on the airplane when I wasn’t even supposed to, and now we’re living in the city together, and you’re sitting across from me on the plane and we’re working together,” Hunter recalls saying |
- | “We will continue to do so as we work towards | + | “You never think when you meet someone for the first time like that, that it’d go this far. So it’s kind of surreal. And it honestly just makes you so happy, because you’re like, how did I get here?” |
- | [[https://trip-scan.top/ | + | Airplane meeting |
- | Trump’s announcement of higher tariffs | + | Honeymooning: They went to Paris for their Honeymoon. Here they are touring the Louvre. Hunter calls the trip a " |
+ | Traveling together: Today, the couple live together in Florida. They' | ||
+ | Airplane meeting: John Lihas, left, and Hunter Smith-Lihas, right, met while working for Spirit Airlines in 2016. They had a brief conversation and then went their separate ways. | ||
+ | Airplane meeting: John Lihas, left, and Hunter Smith-Lihas, | ||
+ | Hunter Smith-Lihas | ||
+ | First date: On their first date, Hunter flew from his home in Pittsburgh to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina to meet John, who was there on a layover. Here's the couple that evening. | ||
+ | Long distance: John and Hunter lived in different cities, but traveled to meet one another when they could. Here they are on a trip to Los Angeles during this period. | ||
+ | Growing relationship: | ||
+ | Surprise trip: For Hunter' | ||
+ | New adventures: After just over a year of long distance, John and Hunter moved in together and both moved to Detroit. "It was an adjustment," | ||
+ | Puerto Rico proposal: On a trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Hunter asked John to marry him. "It all clicked, like the rest of my life is coming together perfectly," | ||
+ | Honeymooning: | ||
+ | Traveling together: Today, the couple live together in Florida. They' | ||
+ | Airplane meeting: John Lihas, left, and Hunter Smith-Lihas, | ||
+ | First date: On their first date, Hunter flew from his home in Pittsburgh to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina to meet John, who was there on a layover. Here's the couple that evening. | ||
+ | Photos: How two flight attendants fell in love on an airplane | ||
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+ | How Hunter and John got here was via a series of unexpected moments and decisions starting six years ago, in 2017. | ||
- | But Canada is by far the largest trading partner with the United States to receive a letter from Trump this week. Canada | + | Back then, Hunter was just known as Hunter Smith. He was in his early 20s and working as a gate agent for Spirit Airlines. He’d aspired to work in aviation since he’d starting watching |
- | NBC News also reported Thursday that Trump told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that the remaining US trading partners that have not yet received trade letters or reached framework agreements will be charged a blanket tariff rate. The United States currently imposes a 10% tariff on nearly all foreign goods coming into the country, but Trump on Thursday said he might double that. | + | “I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, this is the best job ever. I definitely want to do something like this,’” Hunter tells CNN Travel today. |
- | “We’re just going to say all of the remaining countries are going to pay, whether it’s 20% or 15%. We’ll work that out now,” Trump said, according | + | After he graduated college, Hunter secured a gate staff position in his home city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The role was the perfect foot in the aviation door. |
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+ | Working the airport gate, Hunter interacted with hundreds, if not thousands, of people each day. As a sociable person, he always enjoyed the conversations — however brief — with travelers and airline staff. | ||
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+ | But Spirit Airlines’ employment pool was so big he rarely met the same flight attendants twice. | ||
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+ | One morning, one of Hunter’s gate attendant coworkers asked if he could pass on some papers to the captain of a soon-to-depart Spirit flight, which was heading | ||
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+ | This kind of task, says Hunter, was “typically not my job, I did not normally do that.” | ||