Delta Air to End $200 Monthly Fee for Unvaccinated Employees
A flight attendant walks on board a Delta Air Lines plane at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in Morrisville, North Carolina.
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Delta Air Lines Inc. will stop assessing a $200 monthly surcharge for employees who have not received a coronavirus vaccination, the latest sign that the travel industry is relaxing its approach to the virus even as the U.S. plans to extend a face-mask requirement.
The assessment to cover the added costs of Covid-19 illnesses will end April 30, a Delta spokesman said Wednesday. Delta declined to say how many employees have been paying the surcharge but that more than 95% of its 75,000 workers had been vaccinated as of January.