Coronavirus FAQ: Can An Airline Put You On A No-Fly List For Refusing To Mask Up?
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Early this week, Delta Airlines made news after a plane slated for Atlanta circled back to its gate in Detroit, delaying takeoff. The crew was returning to expel two passengers who'd been unwilling to follow a new but quintessential coronavirus rule.
They had refused to don masks.
That transgression is the latest addition to a bevy of infractions that can get you booted from an aircraft — even before contagion racked our world. Those no-nos vary wildly in severity and how often they're enforced, but the theoretical gamut is wide: from
