Vienna Airport operator Flughafen Wien AG is preparing a trial of COVID-19 rapid testing on departing passengers in cooperation with Austrian Airlines.
Implementation of Germany’s plans to introduce mandatory 14-day quarantines for travelers from high-risk countries will be delayed by several weeks and could allow for substantial exemptions, mainly for business travelers.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said the air transport industry has “turned a corner” in its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, although that newfound optimism was not reflected in the carrier’s latest quarterly results.
Eurocontrol may have to further revise its traffic forecasts downwards—after already cutting them once—as tightening COVID-19 restrictions and rising infection numbers in many European countries lead to a deteriorating situation for the region’s airlines.
The arrangement will also have no restrictions on the reason for traveling, meaning Hong Kong and Singapore could potentially be the first pair of cities available for international leisure travel in the region.
AirAsia X envisages operating a much smaller fleet of Airbus A330s in the long term following its planned resumption of flights with just a handful of aircraft early in 2021.
Actor and pilot Harrison Ford has become a spokesperson for Airlink, a Washington DC-based rapid response relief nonprofit organization responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The scale of the COVID-19 epidemic on the UK’s air traffic has been laid out in a report by Eurocontrol, the European air traffic control organization.