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

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• Carlos says:

  26 Mar26 March 05:27

  We flew back from JFK the day masks were supposed to be withdrawn and we’d looked forward to the idea of being able to sleep without them. While BA crews are good, the cabin manager came across as snobbish and condescending over the PA when demanding we all wear one. Then came the disembarkation by seat row, which most ignored. None of the other airlines we’ve been on lately do this anymore so it just seems like BA trying to stand out from the crowd, but for the wrong reasons.

  • Sigma421 says:

    26 Mar26 March 07:58

    To and from the US, you’ll probably find most carriers do. In my admittedly fairly limited experience, BA are one of the lightest enforcers when it comes to mask wearing to and from the US. Most US based carriers are in the ‘pull your mask up between each sip’. Until April, masks are required on flights to and from the US.

    Really if the biggest issue was a slightly off tone announcement you had fairly light enforcement.

• TimM says:

  26 Mar26 March 05:35

  There was very strict mask enforcement boarding on easyJet on Wednesday from Antalya. I was sitting at 1D and witnessed it all. A woman with a bandage on her nose with medical mask exemption letter was denied boarding because the letter was in Turkish, “I don’t read Turkish. Either wear a mask or get me a letter in English” was the crew response. Ages of children were checked with their passports (over 6’s must wear them). Anyone without a mask was given one but told to stand off the aircraft until wearing it correctly, and so on.

  When the mask requirement is removed, some cabin crew will miss exercising this huge power. Perhaps they will breathalyse all passengers at boarding instead?

• BJ says:

  26 Mar26 March 06:04

  Does Italy require mask to be FFP2/N95?

  I still would not bet against face masks being mandatory on all public transport in England again at some point during April.

  • HBommie says:

    26 Mar26 March 11:14

    In Italy last year most locals had medical grade masks on, while tourists appeared to have a variety of styles.
    I didn’t see any checks or reprimands, although the wearing of them (whatever you choose) was enforced on public transport particularly.

  • ChrisD says:

    26 Mar26 March 11:22

    Officially yes, and most people wore FFP2 but it wasn’t strictly inforced on my flight there last week. Document checks in the airport however were strict (TSF)

• Yuff says:

  26 Mar26 March 06:19

  BA did not enforce it to Spain on Wednesday but did disembark by row numbers.
  Jet2 didn’t mention the masks yesterday, 2 weeks ago on the same flight they announce mask enforcement had finished( to cheers by passengers), but not many were wearing them on a pretty full flight. They also disembarked by row and made sure it was enforced. Then you all get on a crowded bus 🤣🤣 for a 2 min ride ………
  It is hilarious

• ANNE says:

  26 Mar26 March 06:27

  We flew back from Dubai last Sunday and masks were enforced. Didn’t really expect anything else.

  However, it was also announced, twice, on the flight that we should fill in a passenger locator form and unvaccinated pax needed to take a PCR test after arrival. My partner pointed out this very misleading and incorrect information to the crew after the second announcement – whereupon there was a rapid retraction over the PA! ‘We’ve just had it pointed out to us….’

  So in some ways quite amusing but also pretty downright useless that none of the crew had fact checked the announcement before making it or heard the error themselves.

  • SH says:

    26 Mar26 March 09:52

    Most BA flights I have been on recently still included an announcement about red list arrivals needing to stay in a quarantine facility despite the whole system being removed

    • Nick says:

      26 Mar26 March 10:07

      Fun fact… the government insists on the red list announcement being read out, even though there aren’t any countries on it. BA asked for permission to stop doing it… and were refused as they were told the list ‘might’ come back.

• Dev says:

  26 Mar26 March 06:34

  Woohoo Kenya is not on the list!

• Alex says:

  26 Mar26 March 06:34

  We flew to Portugal on BA last night. Face masks were very much enforced.

• Liz says:

  26 Mar26 March 06:52

  My daughter went to Amsterdam for a weekend trip last weekend. She paid for an LFT test at lunchtime and flew at teatime – she was only asked for her vaccine passport – no-one checked her LFT certificate – waste of £30 and very annoying.

  • Rich says:

    26 Mar26 March 07:05

    You know that the time you don’t pay for the test is the day that someone asks you for it. Murphy’s Law!

    Anyway I thought the Netherlands had dropped the requirement for any testing now, even for the unvaccinated so that will be why.

    • ChrisC says:

      26 Mar26 March 07:16

      The test requirement was only dropped from the 23rd of March though.

      Liz how did she travel there?

      I’ve done both BA and Eurostar. BA wanted me to upload it into MMB. Eurostar had no similar system and whilst I wasn’t asked to show my test result to French Immigration at St Pancras the woman behind me was apparently asked for hers.

      • ChrisC says:

        26 Mar26 March 07:25

        Ignore the Eurostar comment.

        Missed that she flew.

      • Liz says:

        26 Mar26 March 07:26

        She flew Easyjet from Edinburgh

        • Sigma421 says:

          26 Mar26 March 07:55

          easyJet take a very light touch approach to this as far as I can tell. Flew to Israel with them last night. Israel requires a PCR test, proof of insurance and a declaration form. None of this was checked by either easyJet or Israeli immigration

  • Lou says:

    26 Mar26 March 07:10

    I had that with both France and Netherlands. I don’t think anybody card anymore

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