Mother who was kicked off a flight because her toddler wouldn't wear a mask wants airlines to change their policies

Rachel Starr Davis, a single mother of a 2-year-old, is urging the airline industry to revise their face mask policies after she was kicked off a flight because her son refused to wear a face covering. Davis, her mother and her son were on the final leg home from a business trip in Florida on an American Airlines flight September 17 after Hurricane Sally forced the cancellation of their original flights back to New Hampshire, Davis said. Despite her repeated efforts to get her son to wear a face mask, Davis said, he wouldn't keep it on his face. "It gets to the point where I'm crying so hard, I'm hysterical, I can't even get a deep breath because my mask kept sucking into my mouth," she said. "And then I'm shaking holding this piece of cloth to my son's face so that we can take off and they (flight crew) were standing over me in the aisle saying they had to watch me repeatedly put the mask on him." As she went to her seat toward the back of the plane, Davis said, a flight attendant asked whether she had a ticket for her son and said he, too, needed to wear a mask. Davis said she tried to work with her son, showing him a few different masks and trying to get him to keep it on his face, but he wasn't having it. Eventually everyone was told to deplane. Davis said she, her mother and her son were not allowed to get back on. Davis said they were deemed non-compliant with the airline's face mask policy. Davis, her mother and her son were put on an American Airlines flight later that day. Davis said her son was not asked by the flight crew to wear a face mask during that trip.<br/>