Major US airlines have announced they intended to more strictly enforce mask wearing aboard their planes, including potentially banning passengers who refuse to wear a mask
01:22U.S.-Canada border closes to non-essential travelPassenger claims coronavirus exposure, delaying flight takeoff01:2001:26US airline passengers who figured face mask enforcements had more bark than bite could end up getting bit later this week., announced Monday that they intended to more strictly enforce mask wearing aboard their planes, including potentially banning passengers who refuse to wear a mask.
The airline says that"any final decision or actions regarding a customer's future flight benefits will not occur onboard but instead take place after the flight has reached its destination, and the security team has investigated the incident."Six other major US airlines -- including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines -- pledged to roll out new policies requiring masks, also enforced with a penalty as severe as a ban on flying with that particular airline.
"When the federal government gets involved, we tend to be much more heavy handed, we tend to be inflexible, and once we put a rule in place, it takes a long time to remove that rule if conditions change," Chao said at a June 3 event hosted by Politico. Scott told the Post that airline's mask-wearing mandate for passengers was what made him feel comfortable flying at all. But when he got on the flight, he found his seatmate unmasked.Scott said he felt like the airline didn't take his concerns about the seatmate, a white woman he figured to be in her late teens and who wouldn't put a mask on, seriously.Policies without teeth
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