Wear your face mask, or Delta will turn the plane around

[Andy Meek]

• Delta Airlines, like most every air carrier now, has a requirement that passengers must wear a face mask at all times during their journey.
• For passengers who refuse to comply with that face mask rule, the airline has been adding those passengers to an internal no-fly list. But that's not the only extreme step the carrier has taken.
• On a recent flight from Detroit to Atlanta, a Delta pilot actually turned around and landed because two passengers wouldn't wear a face mask.

Delta Airlines keeps finding new ways to prove it's not playing around when it comes to enforcing rules meant to not only keep fliers safe amid the coronavirus pandemic. But these rules are also about conveying the perception of flight safety, so that fliers themselves are not only protected but future and prospective fliers also take note and feel safe enough to book a flight down the line.

We've already noted how Delta is among the carriers now requiring everyone on flights, staff and passengers included, to wear face masks at all times. Face masks, of course, are one of the few tools we have to curb the spread of the coronavirus, along with putting as much physical distance as possible between people whose health you can't vouch for -- which, incidentally, is something else Delta is trying to do by flying its planes at a reduced capacity through at least the end of September.

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