Airlines urge governments to make tests to travelers

Airlines urge governments to make tests to travelers. Picture: Pixabay

The results of a joint trial conducted by American Airlines, British Airways and the one world Alliance reveal that a comprehensive Covid-19 testing programme can help re-open international travel safely.

This is underpinned by analysis from researchers at the University of Oxford, who studied data on how passengers evaluate risk and comply with Covid-19 rules.

The study, carried out by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), analyzed aggregated survey data from almost 600 travelers who took part in the voluntary testing trial on select flights from the United States to London Heathrow, between November 2020 and March this year.

The trial offered three complimentary Covid-19 tests, taken throughout the transatlantic journey.

Customers participating in the trial, conducted in two phases, took an initial PCR test at 72 hours prior to departure; a second test (LAMP) upon arrival at London Heathrow (LHR); and a third test (PCR) taken three to five days after arrival in the UK.

In the first phase, just one per cent of travelers who took a test within 72 hours of their departure tested positive and, as a result of the test, they did not travel.

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