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Airlines want to drop COVID-19 travel precautions. Is now the right time?
Cbsnews ^ | 03/31/2022 | Megan Cerullo

Posted on 04/02/2022 7:35:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

After one of the most turbulent periods in air travel history — loaded with new rules and regulations and plenty of unruly and disruptive passengers — airlines want to jettison COVID-era safety precautions for flights.

The CEOs of the nation's leading airlines this week sent a letter to the White House urging the Biden administration to rescind pre-departure testing and vaccination requirements for international travelers and drop the federal mask mandate on flights, arguing that the measures are no longer necessary as coronavirus infections drop sharply across the U.S.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airlines; covid; masks; travel
Never should have happened in the first place
1 posted on 04/02/2022 7:35:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

After throwing thousands off of flights for minor infractions, they’ll have to beg me to come back.


2 posted on 04/02/2022 7:43:27 AM PDT by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is this a joke? Are you logged in? Let’s post a Logged In Airlines joke right around April Fool’s Day.


3 posted on 04/02/2022 7:51:29 AM PDT by Kevmo (Give back Ukes their Nukes https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044080/posts)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Masks on airlines are of no value whatsoever, except as virtue signaling. As such they must never be abandoned. The airlines need to use ever possible means of demonstrating their ethical superiority.


4 posted on 04/02/2022 8:01:38 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Contempt is the essential tool of the tyrant.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No, it’a not the right time. Should have happened 2 YEARS AGO at Easter, as PRESIDENT TRUMP wanted.


5 posted on 04/02/2022 8:26:00 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Hold on, y'all, 2022 is going to be a ride you won't soon forget!)
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To: Not_Who_U_Think

Masks,
Social distancing and
Straight Jackets is
What it will take to get
Me On A Commercial flight!


6 posted on 04/02/2022 8:28:34 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (On the Other hand,,, Free Men Choose- - SLAVES OBEY)
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To: Kevmo

Does Logged In Airlines service Logan Airport?


7 posted on 04/02/2022 1:29:49 PM PDT by Does so (https://youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Two years ago was the right time.


8 posted on 04/02/2022 1:36:56 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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