In a release published on Friday, ACI Europe and IATA organizations rely on the reflux of the pandemic to request the end of the vaccination certificates, tests, and even the port of the mask by plane.
Le Monde with AFP
With the reflux of the pandemic and the high vaccination rates, airports and airlines want to finish with vaccination certificates, tests and even the port of the mask to travel by plane in Europe. The main organizations in the sector believe that collective immunity is sufficient to return to the pre-crisis rules.
“The COVID-19, and in particular the Omicron variant, is now so widespread throughout Europe, and the immunity of the population is such that the risk of hospitalization and death has dramatically decreased, in particular For vaccinations, “argue Aci Europe and IATA organizations in a common statement released Friday.
ACI Europe, which claims to federate 500 airports from the old continent, and the IATA (International Air Transport Association), representing 290compagnes from around the world, note that many European countries give up their sanitary or vaccine passes, and consider ” Quite logical to remove these restrictions for air transport “.
They call for “abandoning all COVID restrictions, including negative tests, the need for evidence of vaccination or filling a location form” for tracing purposes, as well as the wearing of the mask on flights. intra-European connecting “countries where the wearing of the mask is no longer required indoors”.
Restore “The freedom to travel”
Aci Europe and IATA repeat, as at the end of the end of 2021 of Omicron, very contagious, that imposing movement restrictions in case of new variant is unnecessary, it is already widespread In the population before the alert is given.
Two years after the World Health Organization stated that CIVID-19 had reached a pandemic stage, “we have seen more and more evidence that border closures are ineffective,” says Rafael Schvartzman, IATA Vice President for Europe.
The pandemic and the measures associated with it provoked the fall of two thirds of the number of air passengers in 2020 compared to 2019.
“Make all the restrictions related to COVID-19 will finally restore the freedom to travel. This will give a great impulse to the tourism and travel sectors, necessary after the hundreds of thousands of jobs deleted during the pandemic”, launches For its part the Director General of ACI Europe, Olivier Jankovec.