
What flight attendants want you to know about traveling right now
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Pre-planning may not prepare you for the full reality of flying in 2021, and it's not just Covid-19. Unruly passenger behavior -- often fueled by disagreements about face masks -- has the potential to make holiday flights especially tense.
(CNN) — Your checklist for airplane travel this holiday season: High quality, comfortable mask; hand sanitizer; early airport arrival; and easy to remove jacket, shoes, laptop and toiletries for the security checkpoint.
Yet according to flight attendants, pre-planning may not prepare you for the full reality of flying in 2021 -- and it's not just Covid-19.
"You may have seen news reports on the disruptive passengers or conflicts on board airlines this year," said Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, which represents some 50,000 flight attendants at 17 airlines.

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