Airlines Consider Requiring Proof Of Vaccination For Domestic Air Travel

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. Tried to find this article elsewhere -

that is, in more reputable sources than obscure internet blogs - and could find only a few repeats of the above article, word for word, in a couple of right-wing publications. There is nothing at all on the FAA's web site; if they were going to do such a thing (which I doubt very much, given the fact that in many cases it would be impossible for passengers to produce proof), they would have to publish a notice of proposed rulemaking, and the public would be allowed to comment. The only thing I could find that's even remotely related is a publication relating to bloodborne pathogen training and certain inoculations for some FAA employees, mainly those that handle accident investigation. So I am pretty sure this is something ginned up in the mind of some right-wing tool who is looking for more "proof" of government over-regulation.

On second reading I see that this "article" claims it's the airlines that want to do this, but that's just as unlikely. If Airline A starts to require vaccination records they will quickly lose passengers to Airline B. So it won't happen unless all the airlines do it, and I don't see that happening. Airlines operate on a very slim profit margin already, and the last thing any of them want is to add another expense and another procedure that will piss off passengers even more than they are already.