The International Air Transport Classification Agency Skytrax has awarded Rome’s Fiumicino Airport the “Covid-19 5-star Classification”, making it the first airport to receive it. The audit was conducted last September, and was based on a combination of procedural efficiency checks, visual observation analysis and ATP sampling tests, with a consistency of the standards being a […]
With many borders closed, some people have missed the experience of flying, so much so they have bought tickets for flights that will land in the same place they left a few hours earlier. Some airlines call them “scenic flights“; others, like Qantas Airways, call them “flights to nowhere” and have announced that this seven-hour […]
Airbus Defense and Space has developed a new health monitoring system, called “Smart Flying Hospital”, with which they seek to provide support in relation to Covid-19 worldwide. The system was initially developed to be used in military medical evacuation flights, improving patient care through the collection and sending of data on the health status and […]
The pandemic has brought many consequences to the airline sector, and some airlines assure that they will not be able to recover from this crisis until 2024, others for their part, may not survive due to the restrictions and insecurities that the virus has generated in passengers when time to plan or decide a specific […]
With the closure of borders and the blocking of tourist destinations, the aviation industry has suffered badly, leaving only two options for airlines: withdraw their older planes and store the rest. In recent months, many countries have taken different measures such as opening or making borders more flexible depending on the number of cases detected, […]
American Airlines will use Allied BioScience Inc.’s new SurfaceWise2 on each of its aircraft, the first antiviral surface coating approved by the EPA to continuously protect against Covid-19 with a single application for up to seven days. Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said the entity was issuing the emergency declaration for […]
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https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta-airport-boss-has-bleak-forecast-for-what-it-will-take-to-get-travelers-back-on-planesThe fall of the world’s busiest airportsOctober 16, 2020 - 8:00 amThe drop in air traffic because of the coronavirus pandemic has been strong, and unfortunately it seems unlikely that these numbers will rise again until 2024. The Airports Council International (ACI), presented the list of the world’s busiest airports in 2019, where they showed an increase of 3.5% in the number of passengers compared to […]