United Airlines flight packed with passengers without middle seats empty raises concern

A photo of packed United Airlines flight from New York to San Francisco with middle seats occupied defying social distancing rms has sparked a debate online. Shared by a UCSF cardiologist who spent several weeks treating COVID-19 patients in New York City and was returning home, photo raised alarm after it depicted plane full of passengers like any or rmal day would be.  

Dr. Ethan Weiss took to Twitter saying that he was surprised by what he saw when he boarded a United Airlines flight and ticed that nearly every seat was filled despite coronavirus pandemic ongoing. Furr, it can be seen that dozens of passengers sat close to each or with in between only wearing ir protective masks.  

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6 hours without social distancing

“This is last time I’ll be flying again for a very long time,” Dr. Weiss wrote in a Twitter thre, ding that several passengers on board United Airlines flight were “scared and shocked.” Furr, he ded, a group of at least 25 doctors and nurses flew in United plane for free after battling COVID-19 and treating patients in New York City hospitals for past two to four weeks. “I have to be tested anyway but this is insane. 6 hours like this,” he replied on a comment, giving a furr view into situation. 

Speaking in context to incident, airline said in a statement to a US media outlet that it could t guarantee that all customers will be seated next to an uccupied seat. And based on historically low travel demand, that would be case, but with respect to capacity and implementation of various social distancing measures that is likely outcome, it reportedly ded.  

controversy on Twitter erupted as only recently, United Airlines h anunced that it was making middle seats unavailable in order to here to social distancing rms to make flying safe for passengers. However, company h mentioned t to “reduce capacity” on flights. 

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(Im Credit: Twitter/ Ethan Weiss)