ACI EUROPE warns almost 200 European airports face insolvency in coming months
ACI EUROPE has warned that an estimated 193 airports face insolvency in the coming months if passenger traffic does not start to recover by the year end.
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ACI EUROPE has warned that an estimated 193 airports face insolvency in the coming months if passenger traffic does not start to recover by the year end.
23 October 2020 | By One ID (IATA)
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After a fall in cases of COVID-19, the Canary Islands, Mykonos, the Maldives and Denmark have been added to the UK's travel corridor list.
Rapid, accurate, affordable, easy-to-operate, scalable and systematic COVID-19 testing for all passengers before departure will support the recovery of the aviation industry, outlined IATA.
Collinson and Swissport have launched the testing site at Heathrow, once again highlighting the three bodies as pioneers in driving travel recovery from COVID-19.
The two aviation bodies have outlined that implementing an internationally agreed approach to testing will support the recovery of air travel.
In addition to removing the three destinations from the travel corridors list, the Greek island of Crete has been deemed safe and subsequently added.
ACI and IATA have outlined that testing should replace restrictive quarantine measures in order to support the recovery of air travel.
With an imbalance between the current tax burden and the foregone global GDP impacts, ACI World has outlined potential remedies to support aviation.
The UK government's Global Travel Taskforce will work to develop an operationalised approach for testing international arrivals.
As a result of a decrease in COVID-19 cases, Lesvos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos and Zakynthos have been added to the UK travel corridors list.
After urging the European Commission to implement COVID-19 testing in September, three aviation bodies have intensified the calls for replacing quarantine requirements prior to the holiday season in order to support the recovery of the industry.
The UK government has announced the removal of Turkey, Poland, Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba from its travel exemptions list following an increase in COVID-19 cases.
ACI World has reinforced the industry’s need for the widespread deployment of COVID-19 testing of international passengers before travel.
People arriving in the UK from Denmark, Slovakia, Iceland and Curaçao – beginning on 26 September 2020 – will need to self-isolate for two weeks.