United Airlines has a friendly warning: wear your mask or the skies won’t be so friendly. In fact, you may be be banned.
United Airlines Threatens Ban For Those Who Refuse To Wear Face Masks
On the heals of the Airlines for America announcement today that U.S. airlines will more strictly enforce face mask requirements, United Airlines has updated its onboard mask policy.
A new policy takes effect on June 18, 2020 which will compel, not just suggest the use of masks. Passengers who do not comply will be subject to what United Airlines calls its “internal travel restriction list.”
United tells me:
“Customers on this list will lose their travel privileges on United for a duration of time to be determined pending a comprehensive incident review.”
Passengers will be given two warnings before facing an in-flight ban:
Under this new policy, if a flight attendant notices or is informed of a customer onboard who is not wearing a face covering and that passenger does not fall within an exception, the flight attendant will proactively inform the customer that for the health and safety of everyone, face coverings are mandatory for all customers and crew on board. They will also offer to provide the customer with a mask if needed.
If the customer continues to be non-compliant, flight attendants will do their best to de-escalate the situation, again inform the customer of United’s policy, and provide the passenger with an In-Flight Mask policy reminder card. If a customer continues to not comply, the flight attendant will file a report of the incident, which will initiate a formal review process. Any final decision or actions regarding a customer’s future flight benefits will not occur onboard but instead take place after the flight has reached its destination and the security team has investigated the incident.
A formal appeal system will not be instituted, though most in-flight bans will be temporary in nature. Importantly, there will not be flight diversions or arrests threatened, just a personal travel ban on United.
Which Passengers Are Exempt From Face Mask Requirement?
There are still three broad exceptions to the mask requirement:
- Those who have a medical condition or a disability that prevents them from wearing a face covering
- Those who cannot put on or remove a face covering themselves
- Small children
All other passengers must wear face masks for the duration of the flight, except while eating or drinking.
CONCLUSION
United expects the new policy to remain in place for at least 60 days. But let me make it very simple for you: wear your mask onboard and you’ll have nothing to worry about it. Simple, isn’t it?
Nice but the assholes who won’t wear a mask have an easy way out – simply claim that you have a medical condition. I’m sure all of them know it too
I agree, its a step in the right direction though
Sad but true. All of a sudden a third of the passengers will suddenly come down with unnamed vague “respiratory issues” that will absolutely preclude them wearing a mask. It’ll be like ES animals, but worse.
Yep.
This out to go over well. There’s millions of Charlton Heston’s out there ready for you to dare them and their personal freedoms. Gonna be interesting.
I mean, a hotel housekeeper got mad at me today when she got in the elevator and I was wearing a mask. I politely asked her if she would mind putting hers on or waiting for the next elevator.
I am one of those. I have no need to fly and will not until the mask mania is lifted.
You won’t be missed.
PA100, you’re an idiot, and exactly what’s wrong with the United States.
But then, you know that and still chose to act this way. Must be a republican.
Now there is BLM people to worry about too.
But its okay to protest by the thousands, no distancing, no masks and nobody says anything
Masks are for everyone’s benefit. However, if one still insists on not wearing a mask, they can still probably fly United. Just copy some people on the TV news footage. They are wearing it with huge gaps to the side or exposing their nose. That probably makes a mask a N3 mask, filtering 3% instead of the 95% as in N95. Paper masks are about N75-80.
“But let me make it very simple for you: wear your mask onboard and you’ll have nothing to worry about it. Simple, isn’t it?”
God, what a condescending a-hole. Go kill yourself.
Wear the mask, even if you think it is dumb. Is that so hard?
@I’m A Loser: You really are a loser. Maybe you and your kind should do that last bit instead of refusing to wear a mask. That will show everyone.
@Lukas As they point lovingly to their emotional support labradoodle.
Leave the cannoli. Take the mask.
Finally, an adult has entered the room and laid down the law on the cretinous simps who will gladly endanger your life in pursuit of their “freedom”. Every company and institution in the USA would do well to so the same. If we actually had a functioning leader, we wouldn’t be the worst country on the planet for COVID infection and death! The anti science idiots must be stopped and muzzled before they literally kill the few remaining sane amongst us.
Give me a time period when this will no longer be required. Then I can plan my travel should I not wish to wear a mask – for whatever reason. These rules with no sunset limit concern me.
Don’t be a Mask Bully.
If you see someone not wearing a mask, remember that as far as you know, they have a good reason and it is none of your business.
I certainly won’t say anything…but people should not be so selfish. It is pathetic. Even if we are being “sheeple” the wearing of a mask hardly represents a curtailment of civil liberties.
United flight attendants aren’t even supposed to inform customers about the risk of a ban to get them to put on a mask during the flight, they just have the ability to report the customer after the flight if they want to. The policy is non-serious.
Many states have liquor laws that are based on religion.
Children’s lemonade stands get shut down because they don’t have the appropriate licenses.
Many towns require permits to have yard sales.
An adult can be cited for quietly consuming a beer in a public park.
Some people who are old enough to vote can no longer buy cigarettes in Texas.
How is all that fine, but a mask is an invasion of one’s freedom?
Its an invasion because Trumpettes say so