| It could fix it. Some airlines may opt to serve fearful passengers by maintaining safety restrictions, while others would rather serve the risk takers and let passengers do as before the pandemic. or the same airliner having many flights per day for the same route could reasonably offer both options. That's pretty much what happened before restaurants were forced to ban smoking altogether. There was non smoking areas and smoking areas, and some restaurants entirely non smoking, and some allowing smoking anywhere.
I don't want those days back but it worked. it's not the most cost efficient but better than have half customers abandon the service altogether. To open the possibility to see it work, restrictions as a blanket regulation first need to drop to let service providers and their customers base figure things out. It's not ideal, but the current situation is even less ideal in term of business and also universal access to flight travel. Why should the flight regulation be dropped? to me on the simple basis that it's perfectly legal for me to rent a van, take 11 other people with me and do a 17h road trip without anybody masked, without anyone vaccinated, nor tested. and I could charge for that trip. it isn't a perfect parallel but I doubt the spread risk is higher on a 4h flight than on a 17h van trip, probably the contrary. Some could advocate to address the logical flaw and regulate van trips as well, the same advocates would then complain 6 months later that they see too many nearly empty vans on the road. Opinions are debatable, and I don't engage in that debate there. Logic should be universal, I beg everyone to give some respect to logic whatever path we take. |