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Eugene

(61,900 posts)
Fri Apr 22, 2022, 09:46 PM Apr 2022

Airlines want to bring back passengers banned over masks

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 won’t extend to the worst offenders.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/covid-business-health-airlines-scott-kirby-1a7c52fa9fd64dd71128ed6852ce76f2

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Airlines want to bring back passengers banned over masks (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2022 OP
If they take them back, I will never fly again. NCjack Apr 2022 #1
Par for the course. Ms. Toad Apr 2022 #2
I hope they don't. Laffy Kat Apr 2022 #3
Money to be made 🤑 they'll let back on Raine Apr 2022 #4
Of course they'd go with money instead of integrity. sakabatou Apr 2022 #5

Ms. Toad

(34,074 posts)
2. Par for the course.
Fri Apr 22, 2022, 09:53 PM
Apr 2022

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?

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