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Flight Attendants Say United Airlines Quarantine Protocols Are Unsafe United Airlines is telling some flight attendants whose colleagues test positive for COVID-19 to keep flying and monitor for symptoms, three employees told Reuters, raising concerns among staff about the policy. “Most of us feel that’s unsafe,” said one of the employees. Reuters also viewed around a dozen comments in a private online group for United flight attendants, which expressed unease and frustration about loose quarantine and contact tracing protocols by the airline. United’s major rival American Airlines, b...

United wants flight attendants to work if colleague tests positive for COVID-19  Airline says it is following FAA and CDC guidelines on maintaining crew safety United says guidelines call for quarantine if a 'close contact' tests positive  Those not in 'close contact' with infected person are told to 'self monitor'  But flight attendants say the policy makes them feel 'unsafe'  In contrast, American Airlines sends crew home if one of them is infected Delta flight attendants also complained about company's quarantine protocols  Delta told DailyMail.com it 'follows CDC guidelines' as it re...

By Tracy Rucinski CHICAGO (Reuters) - United Airlines is telling some flight attendants whose colleagues test positive for COVID-19 to keep flying and...

about monitoring we do have in our case at colonial we have aircraft that fly continuously. those folks are well aware of the security implications and they know to report abnormalities and so forth. we still consider our greatest risk to be a third party with a big piece of yellow iron digging a water well or some kind of trenching that is outside of our company. a sickly a third party is our greatest risk but it has the added effect of monitoring for surreptitious activity. if someone was out there to do us harm who is detecting it. beyond that it is a lot of emphasis being placed ...

department of energy, the epa, the department of treasury, whatever may be, let's empower the inspector generals in the gao when they make recommendations that they have the same authority as ipab. do you think that's a good idea? >> no. >> why? >> ultimately, i believe that the congress has the responsibility to make these policy decisions, and having made them with the executive branch who has responsibility for implementing them, congress has to turn to the oversight. that's the standard of practice in the united states and by and large has been successful, and it's the practice i...