On June 1, Frontier Airlines will begin conducting temperature screenings for all passengers prior to boarding.
The carrier will screen passengers with touchless thermometers, and passengers with temperature at 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher will be given time to rest before a second screening. If their temperature does not go below 100.4 degrees upon that second screening, the passenger will not be allowed to board, and Frontier will rebook the passenger for travel on a later date.
Frontier is the first U.S. carrier to announce temperature checks; Air Canada earlier this week announced it would conduct them. Frontier CEO Barry Biffle said he thought the U.S. Transportation Security Administration should be screening passengers as they enter airports and indicated that airport authorities could be moving in that direction.
Frontier already had announced that passengers will be required to wear facial coverings as of Saturday and is requiring passengers to complete a health acknowledgment questionnaire upon check-in. The questionnaire asks passengers to check their own temperature before heading to the airport, to sanitize their hands prior to boarding and to affirm that neither they nor anyone else in their household had Covid-19 symptoms during the past two weeks.