Subsequent time you fly, you may be requested to fill out a coronavirus well being questionnaire earlier than you board the aircraft. Commerce group Airways for America introduced this week that its members are or will quickly require passengers to submit a well being acknowledgment through the check-in course of. Airways for America members embrace Alaska, American, Delta, Hawaiian, JetBlue, Southwest and United airways. The questionnaires will ask passengers to acknowledge that they’ve introduced a face masks and intend to put on it; that they don’t have a fever, cough or shortness of breath amongst different coronavirus signs; and that they haven’t been involved with somebody who has COVID-19 within the 14 days main as much as their flight. President and CEO Nicholas E. Calio known as the acknowledgments “an added layer of protection” in opposition to the coronavirus. The transfer comes after Airways for America introduced that each one its members would require passengers to put on masks on flights and “vigorously enforce” face overlaying insurance policies. United and American each mentioned those that repeatedly refuse may be quickly banned from future journey. Some airways have already rolled out their pre-flight well being questionnaires. Alaska and American each applied their wellness agreements on Tuesday. Earlier this month, United began utilizing its ready-to-fly guidelines, a well being self-assessment it developed with the Cleveland Clinic. United passengers are required to click on “settle for: when checking in on-line or verbally agree on the gate, NPR reported. Frontier Air additionally requires passengers to confirm that neither they nor anybody of their family have signs and that passengers will wash or sanitize their palms earlier than boarding a flight. The airline additionally checks passengers for fevers earlier than boarding, Frontier mentioned. Airways for America has not given a date for when all its members can have applied their well being questionnaires.
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