It's FAA regulations, not exactly a law but it pretty much does carry the force of law since you can be arrested and charged for failing to comply with FAA regulations.
Federal law requires compliance with FAA regulations, FAA regulations require people to wear masks when traveling via airplane/airport. So technically it is correct to say that federal law requires that masks be worn even though there's no federal law requiring masks be worn.
And how does the FAA get to make laws like this without any sort of vetting or approval from elected officials? What if they decided tomorrow that in order to fly you had to get naked and be raped? Is that ok because the FAA can do what it wants?
The FAA doesn't make laws, they make "regulations" regarding air travel. After the 9/11 event Americans gave away our freedoms (much like with covid) and allowed the government to lock down air travel about as tight as federal prisons with laws that gave the FAA a lot of power and a lot of license to use that power.
Welcome to America, it sounds like you're finally starting to see "what democracy looks like" here...
I suggest you learn as much about civics and how laws/regulations/policies work and what your rights are and how to protect them. You give up almost all of them as soon as you step into a scanner machine at the airport.
It's FAA regulations, not exactly a law but it pretty much does carry the force of law since you can be arrested and charged for failing to comply with FAA regulations.
Federal law requires compliance with FAA regulations, FAA regulations require people to wear masks when traveling via airplane/airport. So technically it is correct to say that federal law requires that masks be worn even though there's no federal law requiring masks be worn.
And how does the FAA get to make laws like this without any sort of vetting or approval from elected officials? What if they decided tomorrow that in order to fly you had to get naked and be raped? Is that ok because the FAA can do what it wants?
The FAA doesn't make laws, they make "regulations" regarding air travel. After the 9/11 event Americans gave away our freedoms (much like with covid) and allowed the government to lock down air travel about as tight as federal prisons with laws that gave the FAA a lot of power and a lot of license to use that power.
Welcome to America, it sounds like you're finally starting to see "what democracy looks like" here...
I suggest you learn as much about civics and how laws/regulations/policies work and what your rights are and how to protect them. You give up almost all of them as soon as you step into a scanner machine at the airport.