Airlines are ramping up other precautions. On jet blue, air Canada, Korean and

Luftwaffe, masks will be mandatory for the duration of flights.

For the foreseeable future they don't expect a return to anything like normal.

And when there is a normal they say it'll be after a vaccine.

If we get to the point where we're in the fall of 2020 and things are still as

poor as they are, there's no choice. We'll lose $900 million in cash in the

month of April and obviously that's just not sustainable.

Next time you go to the airport, you're probably likely to see mandatory

face coverings, temperature checks and fewer routes. These are only some of the

measures airlines are now implementing as the world slowly reopens and

they're not the only changes that this industry now has to face. As you might

imagine, air travel has been hit especially hard by this pandemic as people all

over the world have been told to stay at home. So far a federal bailout for the

airline industry has prevented layoffs but executives have estimated that once

the prohibition lifts up to a third of all the sector's jobs could disappear.

I normally travel a lot for my job so I wanted to find out what this all means

for the future. Is it safe to travel? Should you be taking that cheap deal to

fly to Miami? Well airports ever go back to normal. I'm going to talk about all

of that in this episode. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical

correspondent and this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

When we first began this podcast I talked about travel safety all the way back

in the fourth episode with Dr. Henry Wu. He's the director of the Emory Travel

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