The CEOs of ten airlines and cargo providers have signed a letter to President Joe Biden calling for the transportation mask mandate and testing requirements for foreign travelers to be repealed.
"Now is the time for the Administration to sunset federal transportation travel restrictions — including the international predeparture testing requirement and the federal mask mandate — that are no longer aligned with the realities of the current epidemiological environment," wrote industry group Airlines for America in a new letter.The letter's signatories included the CEOs of Alaska Airlines, American Airlines (AAL), Atlas Air Worldwide, Delta Air Lines (DAL), FedEx Express, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Southwest Airlines (LUV), United Airlines (UAL), and UPS Airlines.
The deadline for the transportation mask mandate was been pushed back to April 18 by the White House. The White House stated that relevant government agencies would engage with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to see if the mandate might be reintroduced earlier and under what conditions.
The letter follows CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky's announcement on Wednesday that the Omicron subvariant BA.2 does not appear to cause more severe Covid-19, but is more transmissible than the original strain.
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