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Old 05-03-2021, 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by golfing eagles View Post
I doubt you read the OP correctly. It was prior to take-off, and he brought his own box of twizzlers. Also it was Southwest Airlines; they haven't blocked the middle seats since early March, the flights are packed like cattle cars.

So the airline had every right to remove him for not complying with their rules. However, I think this in between bites masking policy is pretty stupid. Show me a medical study that shows this has any value. Then, since you are in a sardine can with your mouth 2- 2 1/2 feet from the next mouth, do you have to synchronize your bite with your neighbor so no two masks are down at the same time? Particularly hard if you are in the middle seat and have 2 neighbors to synchronize with. In addition, you spend 1 hour plus in a terminal where you better stay 6 feet away from everyone else, until.....you board a plane (translation: airlines make $$$ off packing a plane, terminals do not). Just wait for the chaos when the airlines require proof of vaccination.
Agreed. It's not hard to comply with the rules... IF you know what the rules are!

Simple solution? Ask him to re-mask between bites. If he complies, no problem. If he doesn't? Yes, I can see him being removed from the flight...

Unfortunately, the simple "re-mask" request never happened...
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