Approximately what percent of the frum passengers were properly wearing masks throughout the flight and at the airport? And what percent of the non-frum passengers? Obviously LH was wrong to punish the entire group no matter what, but I'm just trying to get a sense of if it was 90% frum compliance or 90% non-compliance or somewhere in-between, and how much better the other passengers were.
@Dan @US @Coinguy I actually had the exact opposite experience on B6 last summer. I was on a flight that was about 1/3 frum, none of whom were wearing masks in the airport despite repeated requests to do so.
Most did put on masks during boarding, until a group of bochurim walked on the plane and announced, "We declare this to be a mask-free flight" and started handing out huge lollipops that everyone could lick throughout the flight. With my mazal, they were seated directly behind me.
To my surprise, the FA came and asked ME to come with them, when I was the one who had been wearing an N95 mask plus face shield the entire time. FA explained that she had called for police to come remove the bochurim, and since she saw that I looked like them but was clearly not part of their games, she wanted to make sure I wouldn't be rounded up together with them, and moved me to the front. So there clearly are some airlines and crew who are able and willing to realize that we're not all the same.
PS After enough phones came out recording and claiming that they'd all been wearing masks the whole time and would testify to that effect, FA backed down but had the pilot announce that if anyone so much as removed a mask at any point during the flight, they would be met by LE upon arrival, and that was the end of the lollipops.