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

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• AJA says:

  26 Mar26 March 08:12

  I’m in Portugal and fly back from Lisbon today. As I had to wear a mask on the flight out I am expecting to wear one on today’s return flight. Masks are worn everywhere here and there are signs at entrances requesting that you do and by and large people comply with the rule.

  • Navara says:

    26 Mar26 March 09:49

    Same on the flight to and in Madeira

  • Alex says:

    26 Mar26 March 11:00

    Certainly needed one last night flying into Lisbon.

    • Lou says:

      26 Mar26 March 11:34

      Same flight as me Alex!

• WaynedP says:

  26 Mar26 March 08:46

  Netherlands IS on the list, just filed under “T” for “The Netherlands”, which is a bit like listing The United States of America under “T” as well 🙄

  If they had wanted to be consistent with how they’ve listed USA under “U” then they should have gone for “K” since the official English name is the “Kingdom of the Netherlands”

  • Rob says:

    26 Mar26 March 09:03

    It WASN’T on the list, and then someone (not me) updated the list last night with the latest ba.com version and didn’t realise The Netherlands had been added 🙂

• David says:

  26 Mar26 March 09:03

  Flying to St Kitts soon, which is on the list. Flight goes via Antigua, which isn’t. How will BA play that? Masks for final short hop only to St Kitts?!

  • NorthernLass says:

    26 Mar26 March 09:31

    This just goes to show how ridiculous the rules are – surely the St Kitts government knows that planes are arriving which have already done a 9 hour flight to a different island loaded with passengers who don’t need to wear a mask? It will be interesting to see if BA insists pax are all masked for the full duration due to the St Kitts rules – and what the passenger response is! Keep us updated.

    • NorthernLass says:

      26 Mar26 March 09:36

      Similarly, I’m flying to GCM in June, which requires a covid test the day before travel. The plane stops at NAS to let most of the passengers off, yet the Bahamas only requires the test to be done within 72 hours of arrival.

      • Alan H says:

        26 Mar26 March 12:19

        Yet the cruise ship passengers are allowed to alight in GCM without a test; how ridiculous. I’m there in June as well!

        • NorthernLass says:

          26 Mar26 March 16:46

          Don’t get me started on that! At least they’ve dropped the day 2, 5 and 7 tests, I think they finally realised tourists were never coming back in any great numbers with that in place.
          We arrive June 30th for 2 1/2 weeks.

  • FatherOfFour says:

    26 Mar26 March 10:45

    Paul Charles (travel “consultant”) posted on Twitter en route to Grenada the other day, saying that it was BA’s first maskless route. Presumably because Antigua isn’t on the list! It does seem silly to enforce mask wearing for the final hop, when the previous 9 hours have been with the same people but maskless!

    • David says:

      26 Mar26 March 11:41

      Your right, they should do it for the whole 9hr flight.

• Karen P says:

  26 Mar26 March 09:32

  Flying BA to St Kitts (on the list) via Antigua (not on the list), any ideas how that is going to work ?

• Gavin454 says:

  26 Mar26 March 09:58

  I flew from Switzerland to Heathrow a couple of days ago and masks were being enforced.

  • David says:

    26 Mar26 March 10:25

    I flew from Madrid to Heathrow yesterday with BA and masks were also being enforced.

• Char Char says:

  26 Mar26 March 10:43

  Scotland standing up for their masking rights…

  • Bluenose55 says:

    26 Mar26 March 10:57

    Does that mean that masks need to be worn LHR-SCO northbound, but not southbound?

• Steve R says:

  26 Mar26 March 11:28

  Flew to Malta last Saturday and there was no enforcement of masks. Flying back home today so here’s hoping. I know it will be a painful experience at the airport.

  • David says:

    26 Mar26 March 11:42

    Why painful?

• Steve in Croydon says:

  26 Mar26 March 11:50

  Why are people talking about wearing masks on the return sector to the England? England doesn’t require masks. Yes, the departing airport/country might require them, but once the plane is sealed or at least after takeoff it’s nothing to do with the country/airport of departure – get ’em off!

  • Track says:

    26 Mar26 March 12:30

    Only if it is a British plane, I suppose. Been thinking about it from law’s point of view, e.g., what constitutes the territory. But the crew will have the least appreciation for it and regard for the law — they’ll just insist you put your mask on.

    If you don’t do, they will land you mid-Atlantic because they are annoyed and you pose a risk to society by the act of disobedience to a norm basically.

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