Covid-19: Airline groups push for end to quarantines, travel bans

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The US, state governments and some foreign countries should replace quarantines and travel bans on airline passengers with Covid-19 testing of travellers before departure and upon arrival, airline and business groups said on Thursday.

They said the move would boost US international air travel, which is down 78% year-over-year for the most recent seven-day period, according to airline industry data.

The US still has in place entry bans on nearly all non-US citizens who recently were in China, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil, Iran and countries in the so-called Schengen border-free area of Europe. “The continued restrictions on international travel and differing state and international quarantine policies are hampering the recovery of the US economy,” the letter added.

 

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I agree with this. At some point life must go on. Can you imagine how many people's lives are being ruined with this continued ban on travel. Restaurants, holiday resorts, air travel workers, hotels, taxis etc plus other manufacturers of goods used by these people but are now not

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