AFA 'calling for a halt to leisure travel', wants only essential services to be maintained

Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) president Sara Nelson praised (31-Mar-2020) the US Department of Transportation (DoT) "for taking swift action to define continued essential service, which will help curb exposure and spread of the virus", while encouraging it to "take additional steps to cut redundant service that puts airline workers at unnecessary risk". "To be clear, we have been and are currently calling for a halt to leisure travel and coordinated efforts to limit passenger flights to essential service only", she stated, adding the union "has been working with officials to promote a government coordinated effort to maintain only essential service until our nation has flattened the curve of this virus". [more - original PR]