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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