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These are the routes where British Airways will still make you wear a face mask

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It’s fair to say that the scrapping of its face mask mandate was not the finest hour at British Airways. The policy was announced, and then withdrawn the evening before launch, and then brought back in a random fashion with the decision seemingly at the whim of cabin crew.

The good news is that British Airways has finally published a list of routes which require face masks.

You can find the current version of the list on ba.com here under the ‘Do I need to wear a mask to travel?’ section.

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It doesn’t seem to be correct – Portugal is not on it, for a start, which easyJet believes still requires masks.

(EDIT: The Netherlands is on the updated list, which is now in the article. Ignore our comment from the first version this morning.)

However, as of this morning, the ‘you must wear a mask’ list contained:

  • Algeria
  • Austria
  • Bahamas
  • Bahrain
  • Barbados
  • Brazil
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Cayman Islands
  • Costa Rica
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Dominican Republic
  • Egypt
  • France
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Grenada
  • Hong Kong
  • India
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Malta
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico
  • Morocco
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan
  • Poland
  • Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Scotland
  • Seychelles
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • St Kitts
  • St Lucia
  • Switzerland
  • The Netherlands
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Turkey
  • Turks and Caicos
  • UAE
  • United States

You can find the current list on ba.com here.

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Comments (95)

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  • James says:
    26 Mar26 March 07:11

    We flew to Male on the 21st and had an announcement at the gate on the usual guff about mandatory wearing of masks on the flight only to be pleasantly surprised on boarding that almost none of the crew were wearing them and that it was personal choice if passengers wished to wear them. BTW, in a fully refurbished 777, this was one of the best ever long haul flights we’ve had in over 20 years of flying F with BA.

  • IanT says:
    26 Mar26 March 07:13

    Flew to Dubai yesterday and it was pretty well enforced, although the usual suspects ignored the announcements obviously.
    It’s being very well adhered to in Dubai itself so far as I can see.

  • Erico1875 says:
    26 Mar26 March 07:28

    I don’t see the big deal of wearing a mask

    • J says:
      26 Mar26 March 07:37

      Some people do, some people don’t. Respecting each person’s individual judgement seems most important here.

    • KK says:
      1 Apr1 April 01:58

      i agree. esp most of those people happy listen to the government for wearing a seatbelt.

      if they think putting a bloody mask on is such an infringement on their liberties they should not wear a seatbelt either.

  • Can says:
    26 Mar26 March 07:35

    Why is the US not on the list?

  • Matthew Wearmouth says:
    26 Mar26 March 07:38

    Hi rob. We just flew to faro Portugal yesterday and marks were required.

  • IAN says:
    26 Mar26 March 07:50

    Flew BACK from Madeira on Thursday – we were told masks still required because of Portugal’s rules – OK but a flight back to Heathrow??

  • Mark says:
    26 Mar26 March 08:03

    What about their domestic routes, masks being enforced on those too still….why??

  • Chris says:
    26 Mar26 March 08:06

    I’m no getting theses aviation inconsistencies.

    Fly to anywhere to or from Spain with Jet2 or TUI from England or Northern Ireland
    And no mask is required except during disembarkation and embarkation abroad.

    Fly with BA ( who are a much smaller carrier to Spanish destinations) and mask is required ‘by law’

    So are Jet2 and TUI breaking the law? I don’t think so ! Are BA just being awkward ? Probably. I’m not flying again with them until May. Hopefully by then I will be able to make my own common sense decision.

    • Martin says:
      26 Mar26 March 09:51

      You are being asked to wear a mask to stop/slow a nasty disease from spreading. As somebody who can’t get a NHS operation and is occasionally in pain, my thoughts about those moan about masks are not printable.

      In February, when driving back from the airport (after a trip to Spain) I had to put up with 50 miles of police state speed camera checks. Had I broken the speed limit on a near empty dual carriage-way, “my own common sense decision” excuse would have been laughed out of court.

      • Annih says:
        26 Mar26 March 14:04

        Lol. You think it’s the guy not wearing a mask that’s caused that? Give it a rest.

      • Mike says:
        26 Mar26 March 18:03

        Martin don’t drive with a mask on it’s dangerous

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