Global Airlines Group Counters Airline CEOs on In-Cabin Air Quality
Photo Credit: Travelers are still being urged to wear masks on airplanes. Getty Images / damircudic
Skift Take
Even if people are less likely to contract Covid on board a plane than in other environments, airline executives would be enormously foolish to downplay any risks Omicron provides — especially as they don't know how much more the variant could cripple the industry.
The medical advisor for the International Air Transport Association has sounded a cautious note about flying since the emergence of the Omicron variant, unlike several major U.S. airline executives who had downplayed risks of contracting Covid while flying.
"The relative risk has probably increased, just as the relative risk of going to the supermarket or c
