Originally Posted by CanadaDH

I would say they are meeting the standard, because passengers are required to wear a mask while on the aircraft. My local grocery store doesn't force people to wear a mask (although I wish they would, and would give them my business exclusively if they did), but they have more space than an aircraft, and can limit the people in the store to maintain distancing. Air Canada can't maintain the 2 metre distance between people from different households in their seating, but the wearing of masks I suppose is meant to make up for that space deficiency. The recommendations being fed to us in the news, is to wear a mask when you can't maintain a safe distance, and the airlines are doing that, sort of. Where they fall short, is during the time passengers remove masks to eat or drink.