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Posted by Lanre Aerodove on May 19, 2020 in Aviation COVID-19 | Comments : 2

IATA supports the onboard wearing of face masks for passengers and crew but does not agree with mandating social distancing measures that would leave middle seats empty.

Evidence suggests that the risk of transmission on board aircraft is low. For example, contact tracing for a flight from China to Canada with a symptomatic COVID-19 passenger revealed no onboard transmission and the same was true for a flight between China and the United States with 12 symptomatic COVID-19 passengers.

Mask-wearing by passengers and crew, however, will reduce the already low risk, while avoiding the dramatic cost increases to air travel that onboard social distancing measures would bring.