Rome airport seeks to extend COVID-tested flights to more destinations

Aeroporti di Roma (AdR) aims to extend COVID-tested flights to more international destinations, including Japan and North America, its CEO said Tuesday, in an expansion of a trial scheme that has been running since December. AdR, part of Italian infrastructure group Atlantia, has been offering COVID-tested flights on the Rome-New York and Rome-Atlanta routes in partnership with Alitalia and Delta. As the end of the trial for these flights approaches, AdR, which manages Rome’s Fiumicino airport, has asked Italy’s government to extend it, CEO Marco Troncone said, presenting the project at a conference hosted by European airport lobby ACI Europe. Troncone said: “We are working to obtain an extension of the trial phase beyond February 15 and to get more airlines, airports and institutions involved to promote effective, sustainable and homogeneous protocols across Europe”.<br/>