{"id":46123,"date":"2022-03-12T13:31:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T13:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/?p=46123"},"modified":"2022-03-12T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T13:31:52","slug":"tui-drops-face-mask-rules-for-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/tui-drops-face-mask-rules-for-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"TUI drops face masks for passengers","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8230; on UK flights ahead of Easter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2020\/05\/Tui-2409a-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Tui\" class=\"wp-image-32028 lazyload\" title=\"\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2020\/05\/Tui-2409a-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Tui\" class=\"wp-image-32028\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tui-2409a-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tui-2409a-500x342.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tui-2409a-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Tui-2409a.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jaime reports that after boarding yesterday morning&#8217;s Tui to Funchal flight the pilot announced that &#8220;from 08:00 today it is no longer a requirement to wear face masks on TUI flights&#8221;. His party were also were no longer required to show vaccination certs at check-in, just passports and boarding cards just like the \u201cgood old days&#8221;. They still had to wear masks for transit through FNC after landing but Residencia papers allowed them to use EU passport gates so no queuing!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-heading\">Some exceptions depending on your destinations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Mirror reports that TUI has scrapped a requirement for passengers to wear face masks on a number of its UK flights, following in the footsteps of Jet2 which made the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/travel\/cheap-flights\/jet2-becomes-first-airline-ditch-26364218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">same move last week<\/a>. Other airlines such as British Airways, Ryanair and easyJet continue to operate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/travel\/cheap-flights\/tui-easyjet-jet2-british-airways-25885577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">face mask policies for passengers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tui no longer requires holidaymakers travelling to\/from England or Northern Ireland to wear a mask during their flights. The company has issued an update on its travel policy explaining: &#8220;It\u2019s no longer a legal requirement for those travelling to or from England or Northern Ireland to wear a face mask during their TUI Airways flight, but \u2013 in accordance with UK government and EU Charter guidance \u2013 we do still strongly recommend that you do so. Please don\u2019t travel if you\u2019re showing any COVID-19 symptoms, or testing positive \u2013 you can change your holiday fee-free under our COVID flexibility policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone aged 12 or overflying on routes to\/from Wales or Scotland must still wear a face mask during their flight unless exempt from medical reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-global-color-16-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>COVID-19 in Madeira:\u00a0<\/strong>daily updates can be found\u00a0in\u00a0an\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/covid-cases-fall\/\">earlier\u00a0post<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; on UK flights ahead of Easter Jaime reports that after boarding yesterday morning&#8217;s Tui to Funchal flight the pilot announced that &#8220;from 08:00 today it is no longer a requirement to wear face masks on TUI flights&#8221;. His party were also were no longer required to show vaccination certs at check-in, just passports and boarding cards just like the \u201cgood old days&#8221;. They still had to wear masks for transit through FNC after landing but Residencia papers allowed them to use EU passport gates so no queuing!! Some exceptions depending on your destinations The Mirror reports that TUI has scrapped a requirement for passengers to wear face masks on a number of its UK flights, following in the footsteps of Jet2 which made the\u00a0same move last week. Other airlines such as British Airways, Ryanair and easyJet continue to operate\u00a0face mask policies for passengers.\u00a0 Tui no longer requires holidaymakers travelling to\/from England or Northern Ireland to wear a mask during their flights. The company has issued an update on its travel policy explaining: &#8220;It\u2019s no longer a legal requirement for those travelling to or from England or Northern Ireland to wear a face mask during their TUI Airways flight, but \u2013 in accordance with UK government and EU Charter guidance \u2013 we do still strongly recommend that you do so. Please don\u2019t travel if you\u2019re showing any COVID-19 symptoms, or testing positive \u2013 you can change your holiday fee-free under our COVID flexibility policy.&#8221; Anyone aged 12 or overflying on routes to\/from Wales or Scotland must still wear a face mask during their flight unless exempt from medical reasons. COVID-19 in Madeira:\u00a0daily updates can be found\u00a0in\u00a0an\u00a0earlier\u00a0post<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":5,"featured_media":46121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-island-regional-people-headlines","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}