Masking on Planes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mask in the terminal and for short flights but but not many people do

Because COVID only strikes in an airport terminal! This sentient virus is so dang smart!

[Anonymous]

Tis the season for all kinds of germs! I’d mask if I were flying now. And take purell. And try to avoid the restroom on the plane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, you should take a mask with you — since your decisions about whether or not to wear a mask may depend upon the other people who are on the plane with you. Most people will probably not be masked. On a recent flight, I ended up seated next to someone with a heavy and frequent cough. She wore a mask most of the time, but had three meals/snacks and also unmasked to drink. Eating, of course, did not stop her cough. I was glad that I had brought a mask with me.

I would just wear it all the time if you're worried- sometimes folks are most contagious in the pre-symptomatic phase, or when they just have a throat tickle. I know for me that the coughing phase usually comes at the end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To those of you who've traveled internationally recently - are people still masking on planes? I'll be on a six-hour flight this weekend and wondered if I should be taking masks with me.

No they aren't. Even my very cautious co-worker recently flew to Europe unmasked. This was his first trip not wearing a mask. Sure enough he came back with Covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wear them in the terminal, while boarding and until the plane reaches cruising altitude. Then I put it back during descent, and until I exit the terminal.

This is what I do too, unless somewhere nearby sounds sick in which case I leave it on. We're flying this weekend and we'll all wear masks - who wants to be sick on vacation? I know people say they don't work but they seem to work for us.

Just to add the logic behind this is that pressurized cabin air gets renewed with outside air every two minutes (or something like that), so it's very clean, basically operating room clean. Obviously that's not the case in a terminal, jetway etc.

[Anonymous]

I'm flying tomorrow. I'm not wearing a mask. Flying is miserable enough. Y'all just seem to want to torture yourself. You do you, I guess

[Anonymous]

We’re flying domestically in a couple weeks and plan to mask on the plane. Don’t want to get sick on vacation or after.
FWIW I don’t mask anywhere else.

[Anonymous]

We are flying later this week, yes my whole family will be wearing masks because who wants to spend your vacation with “a cold” or worse? Strep, RSV and Flu are rampant let alone covid and maybe there is a pneumonia outbreak around the world?

[Anonymous]

I plan to wear one on my way to my winter break destination. So many respiratory viruses in the winter, and I would love to start off healthy on my trip. On the way home, I won’t unless I hear a lot of coughing or sniffling near me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. I assume anyone with a mask is sick.

I assume the opposite. More cautious people wear masks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wear them in the terminal, while boarding and until the plane reaches cruising altitude. Then I put it back during descent, and until I exit the terminal.

This makes no sense. The place where you are in close proximity breathing recycled air is in the plane. If anything, wear it in the plane and not the other times when you can maintain some distance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. I assume anyone with a mask is sick.

I assume the opposite. More cautious people wear masks.

Same. I usually think the maskers are more cautious.

We always have them with us when flying. We didn't use them over the summer, but did in the fall when a lot of our acquaintances were sick. We'll probably wear them later this month. I don't like them, but can tolerate it for a few hours.

[Anonymous]

I still see a handful of people masking.

I never mask anymore but I am thinking of masking on our plane to Hawaii. I just want to have the least likely chance of illness there.

[Anonymous]

I do because everyone farts on planes. It just gives me a tiny tiny bit of reassurance.

[Anonymous]

Hell no