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Home » Flight tickets » KLM will not enforce face masks on their aircraft
KLM will not enforce face masks on their aircraft
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KLM and also Transavia, TUI Netherlands and Corendon will no longer require passengers to wear a face mask on board their aircraft. With this, the airlines are going against the rules of the government. The government still wants face masks to be compulsory in airplanes and airports (behind passport control), even after March 23. This is remarkable because the obligation to wear face masks in public transport is disappearing.
The airlines fear that by requiring face masks only on airplanes, the number of aggressive passengers will increase. TUI, Transavia and KLM will only recommend wearing a face mask from next Wednesday. Corendon also says it will stop using the face mask.
Travelers within the EU who fly to the Netherlands do not have the obligation to have a test, recovery or vaccination certificate. There are no more entry measures for EU citizens who travel to the Netherlands from countries outside the EU or the Schengen area. The government still advises to do a self-test after arrival.
Source: Dutch media
The choice was made so quickly. With KLM to Thailand next time. Now abolish the face mask obligation and the test on arrival in Thailand. Then I book right away.
My choice was made so quickly. With EVA or Thai to the Netherlands next time.
I do wonder if I will be confronted with aggression if I habitually wear a face mask on the plane.
I always fly with KLM when I go to the Netherlands and back.
That aggression probably arises because people feel uncomfortable.
A cramped chair, fatigue from the journey and then also breathing hindered by the face mask.
I don't feel comfortable wearing a face mask either.
It always hangs under my chin until I go into a store.
Fortunately, that is not a problem in the village, where people also walk into the store without a face mask.
Sometimes the shopkeeper himself also runs without it.
Dear,
I think it's rather antisocial of KLM to do this.
KLM receives 1 billion euros of corona support from the central government, but does not want to comply with the corona measures.
https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/staatsdeelnemingen/vraag-en-antwoord/financiele-steun-aan-klm
Jan Willem
You should especially read it in such a way that on European flights (within Europe) there will be no obligation to wear a face mask. That is also logical, because in (almost) all European countries corona measures often no longer apply.
Internationally, things are different. I think KLM will definitely recommend wearing a face mask there, but some of the passengers will of course be upset about that. However, it is not forbidden to wear a face mask and certainly towards Bangkok everyone will have done a PCR test. There is no such thing as 100% certainty, but there is little consolation that the vast majority of people are not infected and that infection with the dominant Omikron variant has only mild symptoms. You will most likely not die from it.
Now that more and more countries, including the Netherlands and Thailand, want to declare corona endemic, you can no longer maintain that corona is a deadly disease. IFR (death rate) of Covid is so low that it is becoming more and more like the flu. And you don't hear anyone about a flu either. Thousands of people die from it every year.
Dear Dennis,
I largely agree with you. If the mask obligation disappears in public transport, why not on the plane? I do not see the point of this measure either.
What pisses me off is the arrogance. Catching 1 billion euros from the government, but then not wanting to cooperate with the same government.
Jan Willem
That 1 billion was not received for the face mask duty, but to try to maintain employment.