{"id":123872,"date":"2021-02-10T19:01:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=123872"},"modified":"2021-02-10T19:12:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T00:12:41","slug":"delta-ceo-negative-covid-test-requirement-for-domestic-flights-horrible-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delta-ceo-negative-covid-test-requirement-for-domestic-flights-horrible-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta CEO: Negative COVID Test Requirement For Domestic Flights \u2018Horrible Idea\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdelta-ceo-negative-covid-test-requirement-for-domestic-flights-horrible-idea%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=123872&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-964619914-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>During an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/business\/2021\/02\/09\/delta-ceo-ed-bastian-covid-tests.cnnbusiness\/video\/playlists\/business-aviation\/\">CNN<\/a> on Tuesday, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian shared his thoughts on a government proposal that would require passengers on domestic flights to have a negative COVID test in order to travel.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/travel\/airline-news\/2021\/02\/09\/delta-ceo-blasts-covid-testing-on-us-flights-cdc-buttigieg\/4451040001\/\">USA Today<\/a>, Bastian said that including this requirement for passengers would take resources away from sick people, noting it \u201cwould divert about 10% of the country\u2019s already scarce testing resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delta is the only airline that is still keeping middle seats open on its airplanes as a continued safety measure.<\/p>\n<p>Bastian told Poppy Harlow on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/business\/2021\/02\/09\/delta-ceo-ed-bastian-covid-tests.cnnbusiness\/video\/playlists\/business-aviation\/\">CNN<\/a>, \u201cI think [mandating a negative COVID test for every domestic flier] would be a horrible idea.\u201d He added that airline travel numbers are \u201cstarting to grow again, which we like to see\u201d and that \u201ctravel domestically \u2026 the air transportation system is the safest form of transportation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bastian says that it would also be a \u201clogistical nightmare\u201d that \u201c[would] not keep domestic fliers safer.\u201d He noted that it would not only set back the transportation sector, but the hospitality industry, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg didn\u2019t rule out the possibility during an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/axios-hbo-pete-buttigieg-interview-514df62c-cce1-4deb-b9d2-f8094b6da5be.html\">Axios<\/a> earlier this week. \u201cThere\u2019s an active conversation with the CDC right now,\u201d Buttigieg said. \u201cWhat I can tell you is, it\u2019s going to be guided by data, by science, by medicine, and by the input of the people who are actually going to have to carry this out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bastian joins fellow airline CEOs in his disapproval, including Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/travel\/airline-news\/2021\/02\/09\/delta-ceo-blasts-covid-testing-on-us-flights-cdc-buttigieg\/4451040001\/\">USA Today<\/a> reports that Kelly wrote a letter to President Biden on Tuesday, stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>On behalf of the management and unions at Southwest Airlines, we respectfully ask your administration to refrain from imposing any federal mandate to require a pre-departure COVID-19 test for air travel within the United States\u2026We believe such a mandate would be counterproductive, costly, and have serious unintended consequences, including for millions of people who have travel needs but may not have access to testing resources and for the millions of people whose livelihoods depend on a stable air travel industry.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kelly stated that it would not be fair to require this kind of testing only on airplanes and not other forms of domestic travel or \u201cother enclosed commercial spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delta\u2019s Bastian joins a growing alliance of \u201ctravel industry players, including airlines, two major pilot unions and the U.S. Travel Association\u201d that have spoken out against the government mandating this kind of testing. Many of them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/travel\/airline-news\/2021\/02\/09\/delta-ceo-blasts-covid-testing-on-us-flights-cdc-buttigieg\/4451040001\/\">claim<\/a> that the risk of spreading COVID-19 during air travel is not high and that this kind of regulation would be \u201cdiscriminatory and unwarranted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In late January, airline officials were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/travel\/airline-news\/2021\/01\/28\/covid-tests-us-flights-cdc-not-feasible-southwest-american-jetblue\/4292713001\/\">asked<\/a> about the proposal by Wall Street analysts, but they said they didn\u2019t have any further information about it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/travel\/airline-news\/2021\/01\/28\/covid-tests-us-flights-cdc-not-feasible-southwest-american-jetblue\/4292713001\/\">USA Today<\/a> reported that American Airlines CEO Doug Parker and others \u201chave said they supported the addition of COVID-19 testing on international flights to the U.S. because it was seen as a way to reopen international borders.\u201d However, extending this to domestic flights does not appear to be as understandable.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian shared his thoughts on a government proposal that would require passengers on domestic flights to have a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893146,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3850,4127,6295,6296,6097,4751],"class_list":["post-123872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ceo","tag-covid","tag-delta","tag-negative","tag-requirement","tag-test"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}