With more and more states dropping some of their pandemic rules and the Federal mandate for inflight masks due to sunset on May 11, the ten top U.S. airlines and their main cabin crew union are calling for an extension.
Airlines for America and the Association of Flight Attendants are both calling on the government to keep the mask mandate in place until a bigger percentage of the population is vaccinated and infections numbers decline significantly. The flight attendants are also calling on the airlines to slow down on restoring food service onboard; passengers unmask while eating.
A4A also repeated its call on the government to develop a specific ‘roadmap to recovery’ for the travel industry, outlining steps that would lead to eliminating travel restrictions that are keeping overseas visitors at home, and leading to further losses for the U.S. travel industry. A4A was part of a group of more than twenty industry groups calling for that in a statement last month.
