FlyingScientist

I much prefer wearing a mask to catching COVID...

RockyRobin

I may have to report your username to trading standards

volabam

That's what I'm afraid will happen here in the U.S. if the majors collude when/if the TSA mandate is allowed to end.

Schultzois

I haven’t been bothered by masks much, although I know many who seem to despise them. What I hate is the uncertainty around documentation requirements, last minute test results, whether some QR code gets generated or not, whether your vaccine status is accepted for travel to UK but then if one unvaccinated passenger on your flight tested positive a week later you are ordered to self-isolate because your non-NHS vaccination status is recognized by immigration but not by some other body… this last bit all happened to me personally in September, the only time I’ve been in UK in the last two years.

And then four months later I tested positive in Finland at the airport and had to isolate there… even though I was vaccinated twice and had already been infected once before!

Things do seem to be moving fast, however, and I have doubts as to that being a good thing. Today France has basically scrapped its entire “pass sanitaire” regulation, which less than two months ago they made more strict in terms of vaccine requirements as opposed to just testing. So it seems like we’re on a rollercoaster, and until now each time the rollercoaster has settled down into a calm place, there’s been a quiet thing carrying you back up to another crest where everyone goes 😱 again.

I can’t wait to move past this and not worry every time I book a flight if I’m going to be able to fly it, but the drastic swings from one end to the other don’t seem encouraging to me either. I hope I’m wrong, but I can picture the coronavirus doing a tik-tok now as it plans it’s next trip.

volabam

Good news! The end of the requirement to wear masks does not come with a prohibition on wearing them for those who wish.

Schultzois

riiiiiiiiiight… but it does mean increasing the possibility of someone not wearing a mask spewing the virus on everyone around them and indeed infecting not just unmasked people around them, but masked people as well, as the transmission of one’s spittle (I prefer that to whatever the scientific term is) increases greatly when there’s no barrier.

Perhaps we can go back to pre-1990 days but instead of separating passengers according to smoking/non-smoking, it’s open mouth/nose and covered mouth/nose.

I hate these masks, too, but we’re going to be seeing them a lot of time longer if we keep taking steps to generate more variants and have new surges.

volabam

I agree we're on a rollercoaster but I think it's more like that last drop before the end of the ride. It will take more than "OMG CASES" to get the public to accept restrictions again once they're gone.

Schultzois

Praise be to Concorde in the sky (I’m not religious, but I believe there’s something up there ) I hope so. This is one ride I need to get off.

Echo One

So this means if I’m traveling from the US to the UK then masks will not be required?

nk15

They are about to get some real ones now....

js1993

Not likely. The U.S. sets those rules, not BA.

nk15

The way this reads implies that mask should be worn for the duration of the flight to destinations that require them. Do we have clarification on this?

I personally will try to avoid BA if I can for now, which may not be easy as it is the main OW partner in Europe...

NWIFlyer

Folks, we are forced to close this thread yet again for a clean-up. We really do have better things to do with our time.

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