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Source: Associated Press
Airlines want to bring back passengers banned over masks
By DAVID KOENIG
April 21, 2022
DALLAS (AP) Remember all those thousands of passengers that airlines banned for not wearing face masks? Now the airlines want them back or at least, most of them.
And leaders of unions that represent flight attendants are reacting with outrage.
American, United and Delta all indicated Thursday that they will lift the bans they imposed now that masks are optional on flights.
We have talked to them individually, United CEO Scott Kirby told NBC. Many of them assure us that now that the mask mandate is off, everything is going to be fine, and I trust that the vast majority of them will.
American Airlines Chief Government Affairs Officer Nate Gatten told reporters that in most cases, people who were banned over masks will be allowed back, but that wont extend to the worst offenders.
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NCjack
(10,279 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,074 posts)Don't like mask mandate, pitch a fit, now that the policy changed let them back on.
Never mind that it wasn't wearing masks, per se, that got them banned. It was the refusal to comply with airline policy and federal regulations.
Do we really want people flying in the sky, trapped with us, who might at any point in time decide they don't like a different rule and decide to pitch a fit mid-flight?
Laffy Kat
(16,383 posts)They will find some other reason to disrupt the flight.
Raine
(30,540 posts)money will be the decider.