Caught On Video: Frontier Passenger Removed for Mask Policy Violation
Joe Cortez December 07, 2020
Although the Centers for Disease Control recommends using face coverings and all U.S.-based carriers require one for boarding, some flyers are still refusing. When one flyer rudely declined to wear a mask aboard a Frontier Airlines flight, a video posted to social media documented the consequences.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, airlines are doing more to encourage passengers to wear a face mask, including removing those who refuse to wear one for the duration of their flight. Once such incident aboard a Frontier Airlines aircraft was caught on video and spread across social media, as reported by Fox News.
Flight Attendant Tells Flyer: “You have to wear your mask the whole entire flight”
The incident happened aboard a Frontier flight on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, heading from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) to Tampa International Airport (TPA). After boarding, the video posted to Twitter shows a flight attendant reminding the passenger to wear the paper face covering provided to them during boarding.
However, the flyer appears to ignore the employee. After being warned multiple times, the flyer curses at the flight attendant. At that point, the flight attendant informs the passenger that she will not be allowed to travel aboard the aircraft.
Passenger kicked off @FlyFrontier flight to Tampa for refusing to wear a mask. Rules are rules. pic.twitter.com/snBW9QrcGZ
— Griffin Frank (@GriffinFrank) December 3, 2020
“You have to comply,” the unnamed flight airline employee tells the flyer. “You agreed to this when you checked into our flight and when you bought your ticket so I need you to get off the aircraft at this time.”
A subsequent video shows security guards boarding the aircraft to remove the flyer and their luggage from the aircraft. Although Frontier notes that flyers who do not comply with the face covering rule can lose future travel privileges, it’s unclear if this unidentified individual was banned from the airline outright, or allowed to continue to thher destination on a subsequent Frontier flight. The airline has not publicly commented on the incident.
Conflicting Evidence Presents Different Perspective on COVID-19 and Air Travel Safety
Although all U.S.-based airlines have face covering rules for travel, and claim air travel can be safe when wearing coverings, conflicting evidence is mounting on both sides of the issue. A study by the U.S. Department of Defense and United Airlines suggests that wearing a face mask can block nearly all droplets expelled from flyers, including those which may contain the COVID-19 virus. However, a pre-publication counter-study from a group of researchers in New Zealand suggest one flight may have been responsible for infecting several other flyers with the virus within rows of each other.
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Well how about actual facts, and there enough stories and tracing evidence out there by the millions, but here is one which recently occurred. A 10 minute conversation beyond 6 feet without masks, leading to death. Isn't there enough evidence for these Karens that even eating and drinking on a plane with many people surrounding you is an invitation to disaster and refusing to wear one is completely insane? Why the hell even take the chance. This pandemic clearly show that critical thinking skills are not taught in this county.
What are these people hoping to gain? It's not like you are going to be ignored if you don't wear a mask. If it is before take off, you are going to be escorted off the plane. Once it has been decided to remove you, you are going to be removed, so you should just go as soon as you are told
@asmojo To elaborate on what @PaulMSN said, most of the research seems to suggest you need some amount of time of exposure for the virus to be contagious. The current CDC guidelines define a "close contact" with likely exposure to be someone with whom you were less than 6 feet away from for 15 cumulative minutes or more. Taking off a mask briefly for a snack does a small amount to increase the risk, but if you keep it short you have still derived benefit fromt he time you wore the mask.
azmojo, taking a mask off for eating and drinking does not make the time spent wearing one futile.
BMGRAHAM, the word used was "suggest", not prove. It's dishonest to revise what was written so as to improve an argument against it.