Hawaiian Airlines to Require U.S. Employees to Be Vaccinated Against Covid

Hawaiian Airlines told U.S. personnel on Monday that it will need to be vaccinated against Covid-19, becoming the third major carrier to issue such a warrant in less than a week.

CEO Peter Ingram told employees they must receive their second injection, if they receive a two-dose vaccine, by November 1, although there will be exceptions for medical or religious reasons, according to a memo reviewed by CNBC.

Last week, United Airlines became the country’s first major carrier to impose vaccines, requiring its 67,000 U.S. employees to show proof of vaccination by Oct. 25. Frontier Airlines has also announced that it will require its employees to be vaccinated against Covid before October 1 or that they be tested regularly.

“There is no greater demonstration of our values ​​than keeping others safe,” Ingram said. “Safety is the foundation of air transport and it is embedded in all of our operations and services. It is no different. “

Most other US airlines encouraged but did not require staff to be vaccinated. However, Delta Air Lines said in the spring that new hires would need to show proof of vaccination. United followed suit several weeks later.

More than a dozen major U.S. companies have issued vaccination warrants for some or all of their employees in recent weeks, with some executives citing concerns about the rapidly spreading delta variant of Covid.