The CEO of Canadian airline company WestJet says it’s time for the vaccine mandate for air travellers and employees to be dropped.
“As vaccines are not preventing the spreading of the virus since [Omicron], there is no more logic to maintain it,” said Alexis von Hoensbroech on Twitter on May 31.
“This will also relax some of the operational challenges at the airports.”
Von Hoensbroech, a Ph.D. in physics who previously worked for Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines, took the helm of WestJet in February.
He rapidly became a critic of Canada’s pandemic travel restrictions, questioning its mask mandate in March after a U.S. judge ordered the masking requirement for travel in her country to be voided….