Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg confirmed that the administration is engaged in an “active conversation” with the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in regards to require negative test results for domestic air travel.
“What I can tell you is, it’s going to be guided by data, by science, by medicine and by the input of the people who are actually going to have to carry this out,” said Buttigieg.
“What we know is that it’s the appropriate measure for international travel, people traveling into the U.S. given some of those considerations,” said Buttigieg on Monday, Feb. 8, in an interview on
Newly installed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has suggested the federal government is considering a negative result from a test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 to board domestic passenger jets..
Delta Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian excoriated the suggestion by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg that federal authorities might require a negative coronavirus test to fly domestically.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has suggested the federal government may require proof of a negative COVID-19 test result in order to board domestic passenger jets.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior Boeing executives have warned the White House that requiring COVID-19 tests before traveling on U.S. domestic passenger airline flights could pose significant economic harm.
FILE PHOTO: The Boeing logo is pictured at Congonhas Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 14, 2018. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker
“Imposing such a burden on the already financially beleaguered airline industry has the potential for severe unintended consequences that will ripple across the entire economy,” Boeing Commercial Airplanes Chief Executive Stan Deal and Chief Aerospace Safety Officer Michael Delaney wrote in a letter. The letter, seen by Reuters, was sent Friday and had not previously been reported.