{"id":1399488,"date":"2022-03-24T23:15:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T03:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399488"},"modified":"2022-03-24T23:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T03:15:24","slug":"it-makes-no-sense-airlines-demand-biden-drop-mask-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-makes-no-sense-airlines-demand-biden-drop-mask-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;It Makes No Sense&#039;: Airlines Demand Biden Drop Mask Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fit-makes-no-sense-airlines-demand-biden-drop-mask-mandate%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=1399488&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Several U.S. airlines on Wednesday demanded President Joe Biden drop the federal mask mandate on aircraft, along with international testing requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt makes no sense that people are still required to wear masks on airplanes, yet are allowed to congregate in crowded restaurants, schools and at sporting events without masks, despite none of these venues having the protective air filtration system that aircraft do,\u201d the letter\u00a0from CEOs from American Airlines, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, JetBlue, and others <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airlines.org\/news\/a4a-urges-white-house-to-lift-predeparture-testing-requirements-mask-mandate\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The administrative state extended the federal transpiration mask mandate from March 18 to at least April 18, though the science of transmission has not changed since the start of the pandemic. The majority of Democrat-initiated mask mandates have been terminated. Some masking of children throughout the\u00a0nation\u00a0is still reportedly in effect.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\">\u201cNow is the time for the Administration to sunset federal transportation travel restrictions \u2013 including the international predeparture testing requirement and the federal mask mandate \u2013 that are no longer aligned with the realities of the current epidemiological environment,\u201d the letter continued. \u201cLifting the mask mandate in airports and onboard aircraft can be done safely as England has done.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15985698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1292639210.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Tama\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\">Delta Air Lines <a href=\"https:\/\/news.delta.com\/delta-asks-biden-administration-end-covid-era-travel-restrictions\">issued<\/a> their own statement, noting the airline cabins have \u201chighly filtered air from hospital-grade HEPA filters, plus the regular cleaning and sanitization of high-touch surfaces inside the airline cabin and the airport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The request for lifting the mandates comes as airlines explicitly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/08\/airlines-demand-passengers-don-masks-between-bites-and-sips\/\">demanded<\/a> passengers wear masks between bites of food and sips of drinks, Breitbart News\u00a0reported. Despite a Harvard study reported by the\u00a0<em>Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>in 2020 that\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/trafficandcommuting\/with-proper-measures-flying-can-be-safer-than-eating-at-a-restaurant-during-the-pandemic-study-says\/2020\/10\/27\/01d6d248-17d1-11eb-aeec-b93bcc29a01b_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indicates<\/a>\u00a0\u201cflying can be safer than eating at a restaurant during the pandemic\u201d due to \u201conboard systems that constantly circulate and refresh air,\u201d airlines have begun conducting in-flight announcements to cudgel people into donning masks while eating and drinking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\">Last week, the Senate voted to overturn the administrative state\u2019s federal transportation mandate, which was never passed into law by Congress. But Biden vetoed the legislation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/user\/wendellhusebo\">Gettr<\/a>\u00a0@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several U.S. airlines on Wednesday demanded President Joe Biden drop the federal mask mandate on aircraft, along with international testing requirements. \u201cIt makes no sense that people are still required<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399488","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}