First fully vaccinated flights Florida to NY

[sugcarol]

First fully vaccinated flight carries passengers from Florida to New York (msn.com)

[Steelers36]

Thanks - what a nice story on Mother's Day.

[cr8tiv1]

I am vaccinated.  I fly to Honolulu several times a year.  Even though the restrictions are very stringent (Pre-travel covid testing and registration on Safe Travels app), I feel safer being on that plane for 5.5 hours than going elsewhere.  Hawaii numbers are "high" for the islands (hovering around 100 cases), but most of the cases are due to localized socializing.  

 

Cautious, yes.  

[Ombud]

I thought that violated Florida's new legislation or am I missing something? 

[c-boy]

this might very well be the pre boarding exercise of the future 

[jennybenny]

1 hour ago, Ombud said:

I thought that violated Florida's new legislation or am I missing something? 

I was wondering the same thing! 

[Steelers36]

3 hours ago, Ombud said:

I thought that violated Florida's new legislation or am I missing something? 

 

2 hours ago, jennybenny said:

I was wondering the same thing! 

Airports & flying are federally regulated.

[cr8tiv1]

19 minutes ago, Steelers36 said:

 

Airports & flying are federally regulated.

 

Yes, that is a great answer.  But, it doesn't account for why this particular flight was all vaccinated.  Hawaii has opened inter island travel to vaccinated travelers who received their shots IN Hawaii.  But they are not allowed to "discriminate" trans-Pacific passengers and therefore can not admit just locals to by-pass restrictions when flying from the continent.  

 

My head just spins when I think about changes that happen daily.  I've decided not to worry about. travel until my time nears.  

[chengkp75]

8 hours ago, cr8tiv1 said:

 But, it doesn't account for why this particular flight was all vaccinated.

From my understanding, this was a flight of all volunteers, to test the technology for checking vaccination status.

[CruiserBruce]

12 hours ago, Steelers36 said:

 

Airports & flying are federally regulated.

And the flights are interstate commerce, also federally regulated.

[Gail & Marty sailing away]

On 5/9/2021 at 7:49 PM, Ombud said:

I thought that violated Florida's new legislation or am I missing something? 

So did I .. which I do not understand 

[Ombud]

On 5/9/2021 at 8:30 PM, Steelers36 said:

On 5/9/2021 at 4:49 PM, Ombud said:

I thought that violated Florida's new legislation or am I missing something? 

 

On 5/9/2021 at 5:58 PM, jennybenny said:

I was wondering the same thing! 

Airports & flying are federally regulated.

So if it's that airports are federal whereas ports are state controlled should that be changed?