Last year at this time, a JetBlue flight was practically a carnival in the clouds. Whatever you wanted to drink, eat or watch could be done, and only a credit card was needed for those premium beverages and snacks. Wearing a mask? Unthinkable. A half-full plane? Impossible. Sanitizing wipes distributed at boarding? Whatever for?
But that was in the “before” times. Today, masks are now a nationally mandated requirement for travel on buses, trains and planes. The number of passengers traveling this January is down roughly 75 percentfrom last January. And the biggest priority airplanes are making for passengers is frequent sanitizing sessions and powerful HEPA air filters.