Canada already requires air travelers to wear face masks or coverings.
, including an undisclosed number of airline and airport employees, applauded the move.
But flight attendant and pilot union leaders and consumer advocates including FlyersRights say much more needs to be done on the health front to help"In order for travel demand to return, people have to have confidence in flying,'' Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA said."That means we have to take steps right now to contain the virus.
The Allied Pilots Association, which represents American Airlines pilots, was more blunt in a memo to its members this week following a new coronavirusThis is not time for words like “should,” “may,” and “recommend.” This is the time for “must,” “shall,” and “mandate,” the union said."In order to instill confidence in air travel today and tomorrow and protect the airlines’ role as a
, we must have government mandates directing the following during this period of threat and recovery.''Nelson, whose union represents 50,000 flight attendants at 20 airlines including United and Frontier, thinks the federal government should provideto all airports to hand out to passengers as long as coronavirus remains a threat to public health.
"These should be provided free to all members of the public entering airport buildings with the stipulation that they be worn at all times on airport property and on airplanes, and only removed momentarily when necessary for identity verification or food and drink,'' Nelson said in an April 23 letter to the heads of the U.S. Department of Transportation and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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