Alliance of 5,000 travel businesses back airport testing to replace quarantine
An alliance of more than 5,000 travel and tourism companies across Europe have issued an unprecedented appeal for the introduction of airport testing to replace quarantine. Twenty associations, representing the 5,000 firms, have issued an open letter to the European Commission calling for a testing regime to help save the jobs of 27m people across Europe working in the travel and tourism industry. The appeal comes as figures show that passenger traffic across Europe during September dipped to a new low - and was even worse than August, raising questions over the long-term recovery of the industry. Airline chiefs forecast that the flying will not return to pre-covid levels for up to five years. ACI EUROPE data showed that during the first two weeks of September showed passenger air traffic as down 73 on the same period last years, worse than the “peak recovery level” of minus 67% in mid-August. In their letter to the EC president Ursula von der Leyen, the 20 groups said testing would help restore confidence by showing people were clear of the virus on departure - and could shorten their time in quarantine potentially four or five days after arrival by having a confirmatory second negative test. <br/>
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Alliance of 5,000 travel businesses back airport testing to replace quarantine
An alliance of more than 5,000 travel and tourism companies across Europe have issued an unprecedented appeal for the introduction of airport testing to replace quarantine. Twenty associations, representing the 5,000 firms, have issued an open letter to the European Commission calling for a testing regime to help save the jobs of 27m people across Europe working in the travel and tourism industry. The appeal comes as figures show that passenger traffic across Europe during September dipped to a new low - and was even worse than August, raising questions over the long-term recovery of the industry. Airline chiefs forecast that the flying will not return to pre-covid levels for up to five years. ACI EUROPE data showed that during the first two weeks of September showed passenger air traffic as down 73 on the same period last years, worse than the “peak recovery level” of minus 67% in mid-August. In their letter to the EC president Ursula von der Leyen, the 20 groups said testing would help restore confidence by showing people were clear of the virus on departure - and could shorten their time in quarantine potentially four or five days after arrival by having a confirmatory second negative test. <br/>
