Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly accelerated his push for traveler health screenings amid the coronvavirus crisis, calling for passenger temperature checks by the Transportation Security Administration.
, calling for passenger temperature checks by the Transportation Security Administration.
"We’re urging the TSA to begin temperature scans as part of the screening process at the checkpoints,'' Kelly said in anKelly and other airline executives have repeatedly said that health screenings of some sort are a must to convince travelers it is safe to fly again.
"We'll need to work with the federal government in terms of screening customers to make sure, for example, that you don't have someone getting on the airplane that has a fever,'' he said. "I think that that's going to be very important.''Air Canada this week became the first carrier in North America to say it would
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