thesmiler

interesting, thank you

The flight in question happened less than 24h ago so possible but unlikely. I will follow up with United Customer Care and the relevant authorities in Germany.

LarryJ

I have no way of seeing what the iPad information said at a point in the past. Sorry.

WineCountryUA

Thanks for the information.

Another case of the dynamic, changing and many time confusing situation we have all experienced for the past 2 years

So I think we can consider the recently query answered and closed,

WineCountryUA
UA coModerator

LarryJ

I'm going to CUN next week. I just re-checked the info for Cancun and it now has the same wording as FRA. When I checked a day, or two, ago the wording was more permissive than it is now so there have been some very recent updates.

Repooc17

Picked up some extra flights (UA + OAL) during the past few days, and really enjoyed not having to mask throughout airports and onboard. Finally good to see some normalcy flying, and catching up to other day-to-day activities. Supposedly, there are "mandates" at my local airports and public transit, but I didn't bring any mask on purpose.

simong

Onboard UA870 (SYD-SFO) right now and FA walked around the Polaris cabin to inform people that now the doors are closed you are free to take your mask off if you wish as we are now covered by US law.

We have a slight delay so she did warn if the door opened it would need to go back on.

txaggiemiles

Despite a JD. I don’t know the ins and outs of international carrier law. For instance, if you got up and clubbed someone over the head and murdered them right now while on the ground at SYD, are you subject to
US Or AUS law (I suspect AUS). However, for purposes of the mask, it seems UA has enacted a policy that is on outbound INTL US it’s no mask till you land, and for inbound INTL US it’s mask till the door closes. Whether this is the letter of the law, it seems reasonable and enforceable.

bmwe92fan

At least UA seems to have some logic -- I was just in FRA and they no longer require masks in the airport (although many do still wear them) -- and we all crowd in to boarding area (no masks required) -- then all crowd on to the bus (no masks required) -- and then we all board the plane and they hand us all a mask to wear for the flight to the UK where when we land we all take of our masks deboarding because in the UK no masks are required anywhere for anything...

Kacee

If it's a US citizen, you're subject to prosecution in the US.

Technically, countries have the power to impose restriction on flights arriving and departing from their soil, so for example if a carrier was refusing to follow Australia's mask rules on departures, Australia could penalize the carrier or even revoke its rights.

goalie

UA2400
BOS-SFO
April 24th

No announcement
50/50 both for pax and the crew of 4 F/A's

Duke787

RDU - IAD
4/25

Mesa operated UX flight -- announcement as made stating that folks should do what they feel comfortable and wearing masks was completely fine even though the mandate has been lifted. Would guess it was 35/65 with keeping them on. No crew wearing them.

IAD - LHR
4/25

No announcement made about masks. Would guess it was about 25/75 (maybe even lower) on wearing masks. Didn't observe any crew in any cabin wearing

cricketer

I've now done SFO-ORD, ORD-DEN, DEN-SFO, SFO-LAX, LAX-SFO. Most flights were in the 50-75% masked range for passengers (based on my rough counting during boarding), except for ORD-DEN which was maybe at 30-35% I'd guess.

Cabin crew were pretty much 50/50 on all my flights, cockpit crew were masked on two, and unmasked on the other three.

The biggest differences I saw was in the airports. SFO has been fairly heavily masked and DEN was pretty much the inverse.

Time will tell what this all means. I'm very comfortable in my N95 and will continue to wear it around other people as long as I see that doing so can potentially help protect others. What I have been really happy to observe is that not one person, whether masked or unmasked, has so much as batted an eyelid at anyone else. If they have strong opinions, they have kept it to themselves. Nice to see that there's some human courtesy still out there. If only people could keep their shoes off seats and walls now.

mahasamatman

Citizenship is irrelevant.

TomMM

Flew CDG-IAD Monday. No mask announcements at the gate or onboard but the crew was happily making light conversation about not needing to wear masks. I did notice that the automated safety recording still mentioned that masks were required except for short intervals between bites while eating.

huey_driver

Ok, I was just going to "like" your post, until the last line... Gotta give an LOL for that!
IAD-IAH, IAH-OKC and return to IAD, I would say we had the opposite. Much less that 1 in 30-50 masked, and about 3-4 in 10 crew masked. But completely agree, no one gave a single crap about what anyone else did. Various announcements generally centered on "you do you".
There was one crazy announcement at a gate while I was walking from the IAH UC E-terminal to E9, about how everyone needed to have a mask on PRIOR to boarding. I couldnt tell where it was coming from, so no idea what country they were headed to.
Agree tho, this may not be over, but everyone is living with it, and no one cared what others were doing one way or the other. One flight (OKC-IAH today) even annouced they had masks in case anyone wanted them. More people paid attention to the safety brief than cared about the announcement. Not a peep. I'd have to agree, somewhere along the way, civility has started catching on...
Welcome (back) to the Friendly Skies...
Aside from some brutal weather diversions and delays, it was a very nice experience...