OK to ask potential seat mate whether s/he's vaxed?
May 2, 2021, 10:15 am
#31
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Posters have offered several methods of indirectly asking. I'll echo the posters who ask why. You have no right to ask or expect an unvaccinated pax to move. I guess you might wear a 95 mask if you were concerned.
Aisle and window and hope for an empty middle.
If I was asked, rudely, I might say something like Tylenol does a good job reducing fevers.
Aisle and window and hope for an empty middle.
If I was asked, rudely, I might say something like Tylenol does a good job reducing fevers.
May 2, 2021, 12:44 pm
#32
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Another things to keep in mind is that with any question you ask of a stranger, the stranger might lie. With that in mind, how is it useful to ask a question that you consider "critical" of a stranger, if you can't be certain that if they gave you the answer you wanted that it was actually correct? 
So I would suggest to choose a seating choice behavior with doesn't require asking a stranger anything of importance.
So I would suggest to choose a seating choice behavior with doesn't require asking a stranger anything of importance.
May 7, 2021, 5:23 pm
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Had a woman on my flight Sunday that caused a scene about this. She wanted to interview people that were trying to step over her aisle seat to get to the empty middle and window seats. I was shocked she wasn't thrown off when she got into it with the FA loud enough for my wife to hear and ask what was going on from 10 rows back. I think the FA finally told her to sit down or get off the plane.
May 8, 2021, 2:09 am
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Had a woman on my flight Sunday that caused a scene about this. She wanted to interview people that were trying to step over her aisle seat to get to the empty middle and window seats. I was shocked she wasn't thrown off when she got into it with the FA loud enough for my wife to hear and ask what was going on from 10 rows back. I think the FA finally told her to sit down or get off the plane.
May 8, 2021, 7:32 am
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May 8, 2021, 3:27 pm
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If you were to ask, you might also ask if they have been around anyone with the virus recently and if they are carrying the virus, even though they have been vacinated.
I have gotten the shot, but do realize even people with it can still get it and can still carry and transmit it. So, even if you got the answer (vs told to screw off), the answer is of little to no value.
I have gotten the shot, but do realize even people with it can still get it and can still carry and transmit it. So, even if you got the answer (vs told to screw off), the answer is of little to no value.
May 12, 2021, 11:48 am
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If you were to ask, you might also ask if they have been around anyone with the virus recently and if they are carrying the virus, even though they have been vacinated.
I have gotten the shot, but do realize even people with it can still get it and can still carry and transmit it. So, even if you got the answer (vs told to screw off), the answer is of little to no value.
I have gotten the shot, but do realize even people with it can still get it and can still carry and transmit it. So, even if you got the answer (vs told to screw off), the answer is of little to no value.
May 12, 2021, 11:16 pm
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May 15, 2021, 7:49 pm
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I was discussing this thread with a friend and former co-worker who is now a flight attendant with WN and she laughed and told me a couple days ago on a flight out of BWI someone was asking potential seatmates if they "had the shot." She said she almost had to run to the galley to stop laughing when a woman very loudly replied "Yes, I had a shot and my gonorrhea is almost cleared up."
May 16, 2021, 8:26 am
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I was discussing this thread with a friend and former co-worker who is now a flight attendant with WN and she laughed and told me a couple days ago on a flight out of BWI someone was asking potential seatmates if they "had the shot." She said she almost had to run to the galley to stop laughing when a woman very loudly replied "Yes, I had a shot and my gonorrhea is almost cleared up."
May 17, 2021, 6:14 am
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Mask discussion has been moved to the Peanut Gallery. "To vax or not to vax" may be discussed there too.
May 17, 2021, 8:29 pm
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Was it appropriate to ask people if they had thier flu shot?
IF you were that worried about "the shot" you shouldnt have been flying.....people seemed to be OK to fly a month ago?
IF you were that worried about "the shot" you shouldnt have been flying.....people seemed to be OK to fly a month ago?