{"id":356225,"date":"2020-06-08T12:32:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T07:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=356225"},"modified":"2020-06-08T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T07:34:21","slug":"airlines-fail-to-enforce-mask-directive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airlines-fail-to-enforce-mask-directive\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines fail to enforce mask directive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As airlines try to convince Americans to fly again, they have touted their policies for keeping passengers safe, including the requirement that everyone onboard a plane wear a mask. <\/p>\n<p>But travellers on recent flights said the rules are not being enforced. And flight attendants said they have been told not to confront passengers who opt to not follow them. <\/p>\n<p>Drusilla Lawton flew from South Carolina to Wyoming in May on two American Airlines flights and said the mask rule wasn\u2019t being enforced during boarding or on the plane. \u201cI was just horrified watching the gate agent let people through without their masks,\u201d said Lawton, a part-time portfolio manager. \u201cWhen I was walking down the aisle I was wondering, \u2018How many people aren\u2019t wearing a mask?\u2019 There were so many.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As airlines try to convince Americans to fly again, they have touted their policies for keeping passengers safe, including the requirement that everyone onboard a plane wear a mask. But travellers on recent flights said the rules are not being enforced. And flight attendants said they have been told not to confront passengers who opt to not follow them. Drusilla Lawton flew from South Carolina to Wyoming in May on two American Airlines flights and said the mask rule wasn\u2019t being enforced during boarding or on the plane. \u201cI was just horrified watching the gate agent let people through without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}