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It will depends on the flight attendants how they will treat your 2 year old. However it seems that flight attendants get some kind of satisfaction making a big deal about 2 year olds not wearing a mask. I saw flight attendants making big deal of a young child not having a mask on while he was asleep, and not saying anything to an adult man who had mask under his chin almost entire flight.  One thing you can try to do is to get a mask exemption  document from your son's pediatrician for the flight.  ... View more

Sad that the U.S. CDC decides that children go from infant to instant adult on their 2nd birthday with this federal mandate. Most other countries have strict mask mandates but have much later cut off ages (European nations range from 6 to 11) and Australia is 12!. Before February 2, it was a private airline policy and now it's the law. I hope we don't see any 2 year olds going to jail over this soon! ... View more