Not Wearing a Mask
With the direction in which our society has gone in the last few years, the fact that airlines started to impose wearing masks on their flights is nothing new or out of the ordinary. If anything, some of us might have been wondering why it was not something required of sick passengers before the rise of the coronavirus! How many times have you been on a flight, only to get a cold the next day after you got home?
Yet, not wearing a mask at this moment in time is bound to get you a full-on blacklist entry: there are numerous airlines that have made a no-fly list for passengers that refuse to wear them on their flights. Delta, one of the biggest airlines, announced last year that since they announced their mask-wearing rule, 880 passengers have been blacklisted from flying with them because they refused to wear a mask!
Of course, if you have a valid medical excuse and a medical professional wrote you an exemption note, you are exempt from the airline’s rules. And it is not so draconian as many may make it sound: you are allowed to take it off to eat or drink. No one expects you to fly for hours without any sips of water or any food.
If anything, there is also a silver lining for the people who have been blacklisted because of this rule: a spokesperson from Delta has said that it remains in place for as long as the rule is in effect. This means that when it is no longer mandatory to wear masks, those blacklisted could make it off the no-fly list. However, there’s no way to say when that may happen.
