Delta Air Lines will end the middle seat policy it adopted during the coronavirus outbreak and will allow people to book tickets for those seats, USA Today reports.
- The company said it would end its middle seat policy on May 1.
Do airlines block middle seats?
Delta extended the middle seat ban throughout the pandemic. The company said in February that it planned to keep the policy until April 30, as I wrote for the Deseret News. It looks like the company will now totally end the rule.
- This follows in the footsteps of American Airlines, who ended its own middle seat policy during the summer, according to USA Today.
- United Airlines never blocked middle seats on its flights.
- Southwest, JetBlue and Hawaiian airlines kept their policies for blocking middle seats until December 2020 before dropping them altogether, as I explained for the Deseret News.
Can you get COVID-19 on an airplane?
The data still remains unclear. One October study from United Airlines and the Department of Defense found the risk of COVID-19 is “virtually nonexistent,” as I wrote for the Deseret News.
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But Canadian public health authorities released data around the same time that showed someone can get infected with COVID-19 while flying.