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Free country or not, you can’t walk naked in public. Clothes, whatever your taste, are mandatory.
The same regulations (and social rules) apply to masks, Southwest Airlines Executive Chairman Gary Kelly said at a CNBC appearance Thursday.
“I don’t have any challenge with a masked court order, I just don’t think he thinks it’s just for air travel,” Kelly said in reaction to a consultation on the federal government imposing masks on planes and airports.
“Let’s put the mask in place. I mean, you have to wear pants, why can’t we force you to wear a mask in case of a pandemic?
After falling in early spring, the call for showed a modest recovery in May and June. But as COVID-19 cases have increased in the U.S. states. In recent weeks and some states have imposed quarantine restrictions, they have declined without delay.
“We were encouraged to advance recreational passenger traffic trends in May and June, compared to March and April; however, the improvement in profit and reserve trends was recently halted in July with the accumulation of COVID-19 cases,” Kelly said on Thursday. press release delivering the results. “We expect the demand for air to remain depressed until a vaccine or curative products are available to combat the infection and spread of COVID-19.”
Southwest reported a loss of $915 million at the time of the quarter, compared to $741 million in the net source of revenue for the same quarter of 2019. Revenues declined 83% year-over-year to just over $1 billion.
“The question then is, where can you go? What can you do when you get there? Do you have to quarantine? Is Disneyland open? And all that stuff,” Kelly said at CNBC. “I think until we get out of this pandemic, you’ll see very few chances or giant meetings, it will damage the matrix. Sometimes, you’ll have quarantines in some places and then you’ll have general concerns.”
Even if airlines do their best to protect themselves on board their planes, Kelly said, the call will not be transferred to anything that is usually close until all the positions they like to pass to other people cannot be fully reopened.
“If other people wore the mask, wear the mask, please, we can defeat this pandemic,” Kelly said. “The United States is obviously an atypical case right now. We will have to do what other countries have done effectively around the world to weigh those cases.”
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