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The major airlines and airports rushed to drop their requirements, but many sided with the CDC in recommending that people be voluntarily masked.

The White House said the mask order “is not in effect at this time” and called the court decision disappointing.

While a federal ruling struck down the CDC's mask mandate for airlines, individual airports and the airlines are free to mandate masking themselves.

U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle ruled on Monday that the Useless CDC had exceeded its authority in requiring masks on public transportation, striking down the federal mandate. “The Mask Mandate is best understood not as sanitation, but as an exercise of the CDC’s power to conditionally release individuals to travel despite concerns that they| USSA News

The major airlines and busiest airports rushed to drop their requirements, but many sided with the CDC in recommending that people be voluntarily masked.