No one can require you to wear a mask after flight deck door closes. They can ask, you or I can decline. They person concerned about you or I not having a mask is more than welcome to leave the trip. Only "required" to have a mask on when the flight deck door is open and at the gate or in view of the passengers.

If your covid shots and mask work, why do I need to wear a mask? If you’re that worried about omicold you should probably just stay home. Forever. That’s how my brief would go anyway.

think you might have it backwards. F/O’s wouldn’t be making such requests. This has senior, grouch Cap written all over it.

What is Alaska’s policy about mask in the cockpit once the door is closed? At my company we can wear one if we want, we can politely ask if the other person will wear one, but we can’t require anything. If one pilot isn’t happy that the other won’t wear a mask, they can suck it up or remove themselves from the trip.

They posted this bulletin yesterday:

Effective immediately Alaska Airlines is implementing new mask policy to reduce / prevent high-risk COVID19 exposures. The Omicron variant now accounts for approximately 95% of positive cases in the U.S. and is having significant impacts on our nation’s critical infrastructure, Alaska Airlines is instituting this temporary policy for the remainder of January and will re-evaluate on or after January 31st.

Effective January 5th, 2021, masks will be worn at all times by all employees in the indoor/office work environment, including in the simulator and all other locations at the FTC. In the Flight Deck (FD)masks will be worn:
• Anytime the FD is open either on the ground or in the air.
• Anytime a Flight Attendant is in the FD either on the ground or in the air
• Anytime either pilot expresses a desire to have masks worn in the FD.
o In this case, the expectation is that masks will be worn unless you are actively eating/drinking, having difficulty communicating on the radio or fogging of prescription glasses causes a potential safety risk.

That pretty much mirrors our policy except the last point about if any pilot desires to have mask worn. We can email the other person prior to the trip and ask if they would be willing to wear a mask. If they say no, you can still wear your mask but can’t force them (they can’t tell you not to wear one either), or you can remove yourself from the trip. I’ve never been notified. Two people have used mask but never expected me to, however the vast majority can’t get that thing off fast enough.

Send this crap to the COVID forum

you forgot the most important part of that Bulletin, the one in Bold print…

• If at any time you feel that the mask is or is becoming a safety issue – take it off.

This sentence right here is how I see it EVERY TIME because it is, enough said!

Uh huh…. I’ll that bet.

Yikes. So the two people most needed to stay conscious are going to have to rip off a mask and then put on an O2 mask that looses its quick don ability when you add in the step of removing the other mask in a rapid decompression situation? #safety. Don’t work at Alaska. But wow. Just wow, if that’s the case.