American Airlines Won’t Serve Alcohol In Main Cabin Until Next January

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August 19, 2021 astatine 1:53 pm

(CNN) — American Airlines says it volition not service intoxicant successful the main compartment of its flights until January 18, 2022, erstwhile the US disguise mandate connected nationalist proscription is present acceptable to expire.

“We are doing each we tin to assistance make a harmless situation for our unit and customers onboard our aircraft,” the hose said Thursday successful a memo to employees.

American suspended intoxicant work successful the main compartment of its flights earlier this summer, but planned to resume work connected September 13 erstwhile the proscription disguise mandate was primitively acceptable to expire.

On Tuesday, the Transportation Security Administration announced that it would widen the mandate done January 18 “to minimize the dispersed of Covid-19 connected nationalist transportation.”

Covid-19 cases person skyrocketed successful the United States successful caller weeks due to the fact that of the dispersed of the Delta variant.

American Airlines besides says it is “gaining ground” successful helping curb to-go intoxicant income successful airports, portion of the FAA’s crackdown connected unruly hose passengers.

Unruly hose passengers

On Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration projected much than $500,000 successful caller fines against unruly hose passengers that they accidental refused to deterioration masks, deed formation attendants and adjacent threw luggage crossed the cabin.

And connected Tuesday, the FAA said that based connected 3,900 reports of incidents, it has opened 682 investigations into imaginable violations of national laws.

Many airlines archetypal suspended intoxicant income successful outpouring 2020 to minimize enactment betwixt unit and passengers and to guarantee safer flights.

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