These are the routes where British Airways will still make you wear a face mask
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It’s fair to say that the scrapping of its face mask mandate was not the finest hour at British Airways. The policy was announced, and then withdrawn the evening before launch, and then brought back in a random fashion with the decision seemingly at the whim of cabin crew.
The good news is that British Airways has finally published a list of routes which require face masks.
You can find the current version of the list on ba.com here under the ‘Do I need to wear a mask to travel?’ section.
It doesn’t seem to be correct – Portugal is not on it, for a start, which easyJet believes still requires masks.
(EDIT: The Netherlands is on the updated list, which is now in the article. Ignore our comment from the first version this morning.)
However, as of this morning, the ‘you must wear a mask’ list contained:
- Algeria
- Austria
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Barbados
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Dominican Republic
- Egypt
- France
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Hong Kong
- India
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jordan
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Scotland
- Seychelles
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Spain
- St Kitts
- St Lucia
- Switzerland
- The Netherlands
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turkey
- Turks and Caicos
- UAE
- United States
You can find the current list on ba.com here.
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