So happy for Pilots and Flight attendants...must have sucked big time having to wear damn masks everyday all day for work...
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There is a good chance that this will result in some cancelled flights due to staffing shortages as it has with BA, who eliminated their mask mandates weeks ago. Plan accordingly.
Flight cancellations continue due to staff shortages
Passengers facing disruption ahead of Easter, the first holiday since Covid travel restrictions ended.
www.bbc.com
Why?There is a good chance that this will result in some cancelled flights due to staffing shortages as it has with BA, who eliminated their mask mandates weeks ago. Plan accordingly.
Flight cancellations continue due to staff shortages
Passengers facing disruption ahead of Easter, the first holiday since Covid travel restrictions ended.
The article you linked doesn't discuss masks at all & says it was Covid-related...not mask-related absences compounded by an overall lack of available labor.There is a good chance that this will result in some cancelled flights due to staffing shortages as it has with BA, who eliminated their mask mandates weeks ago. Plan accordingly.
Flight cancellations continue due to staff shortages
Passengers facing disruption ahead of Easter, the first holiday since Covid travel restrictions ended.
If your point is that lifting a mask mandate will result in more Covid absences, the data doesn't support that argument (more explanation in the original article):
Additionally, this quote from your article makes it seem like it could have been more of a planning issue:
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Can you provide a link to an article that supports your erroneous opinion?There is a good chance that this will result in some cancelled flights due to staffing shortages as it has with BA, who eliminated their mask mandates weeks ago. Plan accordingly.
Flight cancellations continue due to staff shortages
Passengers facing disruption ahead of Easter, the first holiday since Covid travel restrictions ended.
Possibly a correlation/causation situation. To be very clear I am not advocating for any policy change. We will see soon enough if it impacts cases with airline staff or not.
Airlines that dropped mask requirements are now suffering staff shortages due to COVID-19
EasyJet said it had to scrap hundreds of flights due to staffers being infected with COVID-19.
www.cbsnews.com
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Who cares if it does? It’s a virus. It’s not going anywhere. Many of us have tried to explain that from the very beginning lol. Airline employees will have to learn to live with it and work with it same as everyone on the ground.Possibly a correlation/causation situation. To be very clear I am not advocating for any policy change. We will see soon enough if it impacts cases with airline staff or not.
Airlines that dropped mask requirements are now suffering staff shortages due to COVID-19
EasyJet said it had to scrap hundreds of flights due to staffers being infected with COVID-19.
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I think the two biggest issues with that CBS story:Possibly a correlation/causation situation. To be very clear I am not advocating for any policy change. We will see soon enough if it impacts cases with airline staff or not.
Airlines that dropped mask requirements are now suffering staff shortages due to COVID-19
EasyJet said it had to scrap hundreds of flights due to staffers being infected with COVID-19.
1. It extensively quotes Dr. Feigl-Ding, whose PhD is in nutrition & has used Covid fear-mongering to boost his own profile.
2. Even if masks were 100% effective, neither passengers or airline employees spend 100% of their time flying or at the airport. Any subsequent spikes in Covid illnesses are due to the seasonal spikes of the virus and nothing to do with airline mask wear.
Additionally, it is very difficult to get Covid on an airplane, and we've known that for 18 months.
On a related note, we'd be much more effective in fighting Covid by increasing airflow in places like classrooms, stores, restraunts, homes etc. vs. Setting up plexiglass shields & forced mask wear, which either makes it worse (plexiglass) or is neutral at-best with related negative side effects (masks & speech therapy, for example).
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She’s so triggered 😂
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Kayleigh McEnany calls out Jen Psaki’s 'snarky' answer on mask mandate ruling — Fox News
"Outnumbered" co-host Kayleigh McEnany said on Tuesday that White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki gave a "snarky" response to a federal court voiding the Biden administration’s mask mandate for travelers.
