Originally Posted by barabuski

I've been reticent to post this because I love AS, but it seems like an issue to me.

A week ago, my and my partner flew back together (seperate tickets but sitting together) on an AS flight. There was surprisingly a lot of coughing around us, and folks across from us did not wear any masks the entire time beside takeoff and walking off the plane (I bugged a FA about this, to no avail).

Anyway - given the thread title, you may see where this is going -- after we got back (Tuesday), we made sure to stay home for a few days just to make sure we felt alright. Come Thursday night, I start to feel awful.. Yadda, yadda, I test positive for COVID. I immediately told AS and was basically told "sorry to hear, hope you feel better, thanks for letting us know."

I would expect me telling them to result in contact tracing passengers around me. However, best to my knowledge, they haven't. Why do I think that? Because my partner wasn't on my itinerary (but was sitting next to me), so theoretically they should have been a key person contacted for contact tracing.

I don't really have a question or any comment here other than I was surprised to see Alaska (apparently) not do contact tracing upon knowledge of a positive COVID test.