"People are increasingly frustrated with the Covid-19 travel restrictions and even more have seen their quality of life suffer as a result. They don’t see the necessity of travel restrictions to control the virus. And they have missed too many family moments, personal development opportunities ...
A statement by the Prime Minister Office said that all flights and maritime voyages to and from Europe will be suspended temporally as of March 19, a move to contain the spread of the COVID-19. The statement added that the government has taken necessary measures in a bid to evacuate Algeri...
Air travel during the COVID-19 pandemic is challenging for travellers, airlines, airports, health authorities, and governments. We reviewed multiple aspects of COVID peri-pandemic air travel, including data on traveller numbers, peri-flight prevention, and testing recommendations and in-flight SARS-...
Air traffic at Europe’s more than 500 airports has tumbled, down 94% in June compared with the same month last year. There were about 4 million passengers, compared with 217 million a year earlier. Travel ticked up when more than two dozen European countries opened borders to one another ...
COVID-19 has shaken travellers' confidence in air travel. This paper seeks to measure how confident air travellers are in air travel under the shadow of COVID-19, and to analyse how air travel resilience post lifting of travel restrictions is associated with the confidence in air travel. A ...
Flying provides the easiest, fastest way to reach most vacation destinations, but the COVID-19 outbreak put a damper on air travel last spring. Since then, travelers have been wondering how to return to the skies safely. Health experts say that while flying does incur risk, adopting certain ...
We are told that “ The risk of contracting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during air travel is lower than from an office building, classroom, supermarket, or commuter train.” However that fails to put the issue into any context. Where flight is essential, a process of risk mitigation...
reacts as he arrives at the Hong Kong International Airport on the first day the COVID hotel quarantine has been scrapped in Hong Kong on Sept. 26, 2022. China’s unwinding of COVID-19 control measures has spurred a sharp recovery in the world’s biggest domestic air travel market. SD-...
“Some 58 per cent of those surveyed said that they have avoided air travel, with 33 per cent suggesting that they will avoid travel in future as a continued measure to reduce the risk of catching COVID-19,” IATA stated. When asked to rank the top three measures that would make them ...
global passengers numbers were set to double by 2037. As the COVID-19 pandemic nearly ground air travel to a halt, lower carbon emissions might've been a silver lining to a very cloudy 2020. But as travelers begin to return to the skies, is it possible to achieve sustainable air travel...