FriendlyFarang Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 (edited) Today on a domestic flight, I noticed that the announcement regarding masks had changed, it said: "We recommend to wear a mask at all times [...]". The cabin crew reminded passengers who took off their masks to put them back on. Upon specifically asking the cabin crew why the announcement says "recommended to wear", they told me that the announcement is wrong, and that it's still mandatory to wear a mask in the airplane. What has your experience been? Of course from after 24th June, since wearing a mask is no longer required by law, before this is irrelevant. Edited June 30, 2022 by FriendlyFarang 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_smith237 Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Emirates - still mask wearing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norfolkandchance Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Thai Airways/ Lufthansa Bangkok to Rome via Munich last week. Masks on apart from meals. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Moonlover Posted June 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2022 ''TPN (Thai Pattaya News) media notes that private businesses and events have the ability and right to make mask wearing at their establishments and venues required, however''. An airline is a private business and their aircraft are their establishments. If they wish to impose a 'masks on' policy, they have the right to do so. https://thepattayanews.com/2022/06/24/thailand-officially-drops-mask-mandate-in-late-night-royal-gazette-order/ 7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bbko Posted June 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2022 8 minutes ago, Moonlover said: ''TPN (Thai Pattaya News) media notes that private businesses and events have the ability and right to make mask wearing at their establishments and venues required, however''. An airline is a private business and their aircraft are their establishments. If they wish to impose a 'masks on' policy, they have the right to do so. https://thepattayanews.com/2022/06/24/thailand-officially-drops-mask-mandate-in-late-night-royal-gazette-order/ Yes, mask wearing out in the public is optional, private businesses can have their own mask policy. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tjintx Posted June 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 30, 2022 Turkish Airlines from DFW to IST, no mask requirement. Same airline today, IST to BKK, handed out masks to everyone and said they were required on the flight. Everyone put them on dutifully but about 10 minutes in, maybe 98% of them were off and stayed off until arriving at the gate. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Wuvu2 Posted July 1, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 1, 2022 Same reason we wear a mask in 7-11 - to protect the staff. Airline staff are exposed to hundreds of people a day. As the covid induced air flight cancelations demonstrate these are essential workers. I'm totally bored with people that are so obsessed with their own "personal liberties" that they resent being asked to wear a mask protect others ???? 11 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virt Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 2 minutes ago, Wuvu2 said: Same reason we wear a mask in 7-11 - to protect the staff. Airline staff are exposed to hundreds of people a day. As the covid induced air flight cancelations demonstrate these are essential workers. I'm totally bored with people that are so obsessed with their own "personal liberties" that they resent being asked to wear a mask protect others ???? Many European flights does not require masks anymore, even if BA5 if on the lose at the moment and the BA5 are suspected to create a new wave across Europe this summer if not all over. We do not have to wear masks during out 6 hour flight to Tenerife from DK. Seems like there is a huge difference from airline to airline across the world. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell17au Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 You got it wrong FriendlyFarang. What happened on June 23 which was published in the Royal Gazette on June 24 was that the mandate for wearing a mask out in the public (not in the shopping centres or any other enclosed areas) was changed to be a persons option to wear a mask or not but this is only in public places like parklands, the beach, or any other area in the open but not at any sporting or entertainment events where there is a crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thingamabob Posted July 1, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 1, 2022 If in doubt wear a mask and stop moaning. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CygnusX1 Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 6 hours ago, Wuvu2 said: Same reason we wear a mask in 7-11 - to protect the staff. Airline staff are exposed to hundreds of people a day. As the covid induced air flight cancelations demonstrate these are essential workers. I'm totally bored with people that are so obsessed with their own "personal liberties" that they resent being asked to wear a mask protect others Alan Joyce, the CEO of Qantas, disagrees with you. Do a web search “Qantas Joyce masks” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wuvu2 Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 12 minutes ago, CygnusX1 said: Alan Joyce, the CEO of Qantas, disagrees with you. Do a web search “Qantas Joyce masks” I'm wrong that some people are so obsessed with their "personal liberties" that they resent being asked to wear a mask protect others? You haven't met my neighbors ???? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CloseShave Posted July 1, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 1, 2022 6 hours ago, Wuvu2 said: Same reason we wear a mask in 7-11 - to protect the staff. Airline staff are exposed to hundreds of people a day. As the covid induced air flight cancelations demonstrate these are essential workers. I'm totally bored with people that are so obsessed with their own "personal liberties" that they resent being asked to wear a mask protect others ???? You wear a mask to protect others and yourself. Simply a fair and unbiased objective. For God's sake just be diligent and cooperative. I too am sick and tired of the antimask runts who just basically have no regard for other people's health nor their own. Moronic behavior....... 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maybole Posted July 1, 2022 Share Posted July 1, 2022 In the early 1980s. I travelled on Gulfair from London to Bahrain. Some few rows behind me a woman kept up a persistent coughing, sneezing and sniffling all through the flight. 3 days later I came down with severe cold and the next edition of Gulf News reported a severe respiratory epidemic had spread through the Island. It may have been a coincidence but with hindsight maybe a mask might have prevented it. The air inside an aircraft is recycled every few minutes and the purification systems are not designed to catch germs. Wear your mask if asked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bbko Posted July 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 2, 2022 13 hours ago, Maybole said: In the early 1980s. I travelled on Gulfair from London to Bahrain. Some few rows behind me a woman kept up a persistent coughing, sneezing and sniffling all through the flight. 3 days later I came down with severe cold and the next edition of Gulf News reported a severe respiratory epidemic had spread through the Island. It may have been a coincidence but with hindsight maybe a mask might have prevented it. The air inside an aircraft is recycled every few minutes and the purification systems are not designed to catch germs. Wear your mask if asked. Many years back when flying Los Angeles to BKK, I was seated next to a lady that was constantly coughing, I tried my best to keep my head turned away from her but within 24 hours of me arriving in Thailand I came down with a fever/cough, ended up being strep throat. It took away 3 of my 10 day holiday. Sitting elbow to elbow in a crowded airplane for hours is risk, I don't know if a mask would have prevented me catching strep throat, but I'm sure it would have lessened the chance. Mask up in confined spaces. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eaglekott Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 This morning, International flight with Thai Airways, message: "We recommend to wear a mask at all times" No correction if you did not wear mask, Most people did wear it, maybe 5-10 did not. I wore upon boarding and exit the plane when every body stand so close to each other. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunLA Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 On 7/2/2022 at 12:35 PM, bbko said: within 24 hours of me arriving in Thailand I came down with a fever/cough, ended up being strep throat. "How long does it take to get strep throat once exposed? It usually takes two to five days for someone exposed to group A strep to become ill with strep throat. It is important to know that some infected people do not have symptoms or seem sick. People sick with strep throat are much more contagious than those who do not have symptoms." https://www.cdc.gov/groupastrep/diseases-public/strep-throat.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuvoc Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 On a Jetstar flight from Melbourne to BKK 9-10 hours at the beginning of July, masks were not compulsory and as a result a lot of people did not wear them, including the woman sitting next to me who had a couple of massive coughing bouts on that journey. I tested positive a few days after arrival and are still testing positive 10 days later even though symptoms have gone. Hard to say for sure but it seems likely that person had Covid and my standard surgical type mask did not save me, I should have had a better mask, but in my opinion if is a HUGE mistake for mandatory mask requirements to have been removed on planes. I feel so sorry for the cabin crew as well. For them it isn't just one flight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestro Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Removed a troll post (wuflu) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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