Are you still pretending the airlines didn't have mass cancellations due to Covid during the Omicron wave?

Who are you trying to fool with this?

Your baseless assertion doesn't make it true. The facts are all studies show about 1% effectiveness or in several cases actually INVERSE effectiveness. You post this garbage you are getting pushback.

The old normal is gone, long gone, there is a new normal. Adapt or die.

That said, it would really be nice if the western world would adopt the courtesy of wearing a mask when they are sick so not to spread the virus to other. Which is the normal in most/many Asian countries.

I would love to see a source for that statement.

Putting aside the mask mandate, it’s hard to believe that Ed approved this nonsense in the PR.

It literally adds nothing to the statement, it wasn’t necessary at all — it just adds unneeded debate and politicization.

I hope an update is made tomorrow to remove this idiotic language

You're boycotting Delta because some people in red hats are flying without masks on Spirit?

I am reasonably certain you don't want this forum to answer that question ;-)

Honestly, I think they should have announced they were pulling it tomorrow (and granted a one-time waiver for folks to cancel travel scheduled between now and the initially-announced expiration date in early May). I spoke with a friend (whole family has various conditions...parents are fairly old and have health complications, and the friend, though not nearly as old as they are [as biology generally dictates], also has sincere health concerns) and we agreed that the speed with which the airlines pulled this might well have caused some folks a bona fide panic attack. Given that folks scheduled travel with this as part of their calculus, pulling the mandate mid-flight is just a bit too much.

(I'd compare this with Disney World, which generally gave a few days' notice for this sort of thing.)

Honestly...I was writing this earlier and the thread got shut: I was expecting this to essentially come down tomorrow. I'm quite surprised at the speed with which the airlines pulled it, given some of these things. The fact that this was the last place said mandates were "sticking around" didn't hurt (and neither did lousy in-airport compliance), but it's still a bit shocking to see it play out quite so dramatically.

Try 5+ hour to and from HNL, my ears did hurt A LOT. Ordered couple of extra drinks to be able to take it off for a while.

The airlines didn't really have a choice. They get that the mask mandate isn't popular at this point in time, and that people want to get back to "normal". The mandate was going away in two week's time anyway. So yeah, we'll get a spike in numbers as everyone relaxes their guidelines, and then maybe they'll go back down for summer.

If you think about it, this is probably GREAT for business. Some folks probably don't want to fly because they don't relish the thought of wearing a mask for hours. Others will buy up to Delta One to get more separation. These are both passengers the airlines want to sell tickets to. They've been waiting for the world to be open for business.

You are more than welcome to wear as many masks as you would like as often as you desire.

It's easy to identify those that haven't come out of this without some form of psychological scarring and I doubt they will ever give up masks or their crusade to radicalise others. But I guess they are intelligent, "the science says", types so what do us mortals know? I guess it's like lifers who are institutionalised and cannot adapt to the outside world when they are released. I don't think this genie will be easy to put back in the bottle.

Random question back to what i think the topic may be: I didn't read all of the upstream comments, but I assume flights operated by Endeavor Air, a wholly own Delta subsidiary, are also mask optional? I can't find any news on them at all and have a flight today with them.