Bare-Faced Flyers: European Airlines Dropping Mask Mandates on Flights

Jet2 announced on Wednesday the end of mask requirements for English passengers on their flights as Ryanair committed to ending their mask mandate in the near future.

British airline Jet2 has updated its coronavirus guidelines and axed its rules for mandatory mask-wearing on flights that take off from England and Northern Ireland, highlighting it is “no longer a legal requirement” to wear them.

Passengers will however be required to wear a mask before leaving the plane if the country they are travelling to has mask requirements in place, and Jet2 have said that they continue to recommend that passengers “continue to wear a face mask”

Shortly after this announcement, Michael O’Leary, the CEO of Ryanair, has said that he also wishes to see the end of face-covering requirements on his planes by the end of April, the Daily Mail reports.

Ryanair’s CEO admitted masks would “probably be here to stay” until at least after Easter, but did however provide passengers with the hope policies would “come to an end maybe by the end of April, at the end of May”.- READ MORE