These are the routes where British Airways will still make you wear a face mask

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 The policy was announced, and then withdrawn the evening before launch, and then brought back in a random fashion with the decision seemingly at the whim of cabin crew.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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How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (March 2023)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

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There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points.

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There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

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