Has anyone flown recently?

Just curious if you felt safe... Flew with kids or not.... And bonus points if you happened to land in NY and were subjected to the mandatory quaratine?

Safe as in wings will stay glued on safe or safe as in I don't gits tha rona safe?

Flew with my wife and son last month, it was fine.

Flown on Delta, all middle seats are open for the remainder of this year so it felt safe enough. Masks on from the time you hit the airport until the time you leave the airport. Can't speak to other airlines and can't speak to NY!

Not intentionally. A couple weeks ago a section of road was milled away on my way to work. I hit about an 8" drop far faster than I should have at about three in the morning. I put a dent in my headliner. 

Haven't traveled since February. But our son has traveled for business with no prob. And we have talked with others who have traveled by air recently with no prob. (We recently cancelled our usual November trip to Palm Springs primarily because of wearing a mask for about ten hours on flights and in the airports. A secondary reason was because we weren't going to see all our friends from Vancouver because of the border closure).

I'm a United pilot- haven't flown for a dollar since 29 Feb- but have flown about the country between now and then. My feelings are- it's complicated. I want my job to be ok but Covid cases are 100k+ per day. We are stir crazy as a nation. You wear a decent mask on an airplane, I don't think you are getting the disease- don't be elderly or with a co-morbidity though. 

I don't think right now there is an answer to the question.

I flew 2 weeks ago cross country, connecting at O'Hare.  99.9% of people wore masks properly.  I would fly again.

I flew from Boston to San Diego via Charlotte a couple of weeks ago. American Airlines packed every seat of the plane but required us to disembark 5 rows at a time to preserve social distancing. It was a joke after 4.5 hours cooped up like sardines.

I'd prefer not to fly (I drove from NH to San Diego and back this summer to avaoid flying) but I do what I have to do for work.

Anyone flown in Canada recently?  Was the experience similar to the above experiences in the US?  I'm thinking about flying from Toronto to Calgary in early December to go snowboarding in Banff but I'm not sure how much of a pain it will be or what's required (is it just questions/temp check or full rapid testing or what).  I work at a hospital in Detroit so I'm not sure getting on an airplane in the middle of a pandemic and risking an international incident by infecting a foreign hospital when I go back to work is such a great idea, but I really want to go snowboarding. :)

In reply to Schmidlap :

I will let you know as I am flying from YVR to Toronto tomorrow and coming back Wednesday. And true to the CBC bait and switch news story they arbitrarily stuck me on a different flight.

preach said:

I flew from Boston to San Diego via Charlotte a couple of weeks ago. American Airlines packed every seat of the plane but required us to disembark 5 rows at a time to preserve social distancing. It was a joke after 4.5 hours cooped up like sardines.

I'd prefer not to fly (I drove from NH to San Diego and back this summer to avaoid flying) but I do what I have to do for work.

I’ll never fly AA again unless the only other option is walking.  They were terrible before Covid.  Unacceptable now.

Teh E36 M3 said:

I'm a United pilot- haven't flown for a dollar since 29 Feb- but have flown about the country between now and then. My feelings are- it's complicated. I want my job to be ok but Covid cases are 100k+ per day. We are stir crazy as a nation. You wear a decent mask on an airplane, I don't think you are getting the disease- don't be elderly or with a co-morbidity though. 

I don't think right now there is an answer to the question.

do the Pilots need to do so many flying hours to keep certified for that plane ?

Flew ~2 months ago. Midway to New Orleans and back on Southwest. It was a thing I had to do.

It was fine. I enjoyed the extra room and the easy trip through security. Everyone was wearing masks, and not just in the dumb way with their nose swinging in the breeze.  They had the oversized hand sanitizer liquid exemption, and that added a few minutes because they have to put it though some extra machine.

Based on the marketing materials, the air in the cabin is changed every 3 minutes or so. 

Honestly, I'd do it again if I had to get somewhere. I think I'm probably better off going through the airports and flights with their attitude to safety than getting in my car with the increased risk that represents, stopping every few hours at some random gas station, and spending one or more nights in a hotel. I think the flight is cleaner and safer.

The math might change if they start trying to increase capacity too early.

Flying now is actually really nice if you have status. I got upgraded on all of the legs of my last trip to Costa Rica a week ago. It was nice! 

Honestly, it's fine. The planes are pretty empty and in most cases you can play the seat map bingo and get into a place on the plane with no one around. I felt more concerned in dining in restaurants than flying. 

Well, the 737 Max is returning to service despite software fixes not being in place yet.  So that makes me feel unsafe.

Yeah, I suspect they are kinda hoping you forgot about those...

It does look like they have done a significant software update to add many layers of redundancy to the MCAS and flight computer as well as training.

The plane is still of course fundamentally unstable in some situations, but with a lot of software to keep it out of them...

My flight was uneventful. Everyone was masked, no conflicts, and no lineups or waits. Long term parking was closed so I parked at the long term rate right outside Vancouver airport in the parkade that used to be hourly. Snack and drink arrived with napkins and whatnot all sealed into a bag, which was wasteful because I could not refuse the items I need not need or want. And my uber said I was his only fare in three hours.

some guy wanted to shake my hand, but other than that.... it was fine! imho delta is the way to go (no offense meant Teh E63M3) flew with united once during covid and no empty middle seats. delta has empty middle seat and you can sit in one if you family is in the same row

A 401 CJ said:

preach said:

I flew from Boston to San Diego via Charlotte a couple of weeks ago. American Airlines packed every seat of the plane but required us to disembark 5 rows at a time to preserve social distancing. It was a joke after 4.5 hours cooped up like sardines.

I'd prefer not to fly (I drove from NH to San Diego and back this summer to avaoid flying) but I do what I have to do for work.

I’ll never fly AA again unless the only other option is walking.  They were terrible before Covid.  Unacceptable now.

I do not get to choose. Uncle Sam ('s minion) does that for me.

We are flying to Orlando next month to hang with my ladies' parents for Christmas. 

I'm not particularly thrilled about it. The flight, not her parents. They are pretty cool.

As a follow up, I am going home a day early because toronto is like a ghost town. Nothing is open and nowhere to eat. I'm sitting here in my room waiting for a guy on a bicycle to deliver me a cold breakfast. berkeley that for another 24 hours.

Flew alone and with my son, two separate trips. Airport empty; cheap flights FL to NE on Spirit were full. Everyone had at least a token mask. Did not feel comfortable about the proximity and won't be doing it again unless an emergency. One trip was a funeral. 

I've flown three times since COVID started and honestly I felt more safe every time than before COVID. All the flights were mostly empty and plenty of room between everyone. Also, people seem to be less rude and more patient (everyone's not rushing to get out of the plane), which is a huge plus of this I suppose. 

In reply to bearmtnmartin :

Thanks, I guess I'll start looking at flights and stuff.