Originally Posted by
kilo
Indeed. I suspect UA and other airlines would like cases like this to go relatively quietly e.g. a fine/ban that deters others from doing the same.
If this gets contested will a prosecutor not have to challenge the airlines studies that demonstrate how difficult it is to transmit the virus on a flight?
The United study is a joke. There are better scientific studies out there, including a recent peer reviewed study published in a medical journal, that show how easy it is to spread COVID in-flight even with passengers wearing masks and spread out far apart onboard. If UA were certain that COVID transmission wasn't possible in a flight, they wouldn't proactively ask and prevent those that are COVID positive from boarding. I doubt any jury would rush to the side of this couple if their defense is UA marketing told them it was safe to fly with COVID.