The Australian airline Qantas will require passengers taking its international flights to be vaccinated beforehand against Covid-19, announced his boss, convinced that this condition will become "common" in the sector.
The requirement to be vaccinated against Covid-19 to travel on Qantas will come into effect as soon as a vaccine is available to the public, company CEO Alan Joyce said on Monday evening.
"We are considering changing our terms of service for international travelers, to tell them that we will ask people to get vaccinated before they can get on the plane," Alan Joyce told Channel Nine. .
A "necessity" for international flights
"For domestic flights, we will have to see what happens for the Covid-19 but for international travelers arriving in Australia and for people leaving the country, we think it is a necessity", he said for follow-up.
The CEO of Qantas predicts that this type of measure will become widespread in the world of air transport, while governments and airlines are currently considering, according to him, the introduction of electronic vaccination records.
Other major airlines, however, have deemed it too early to come to a conclusion on what the air travel requirements will be once a vaccine becomes widely available.
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"We have no concrete plans to announce at this stage about the vaccine because it is still being developed and it will take time for it to be distributed," an official told AFP. by Korean Air.
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Japan Airlines has also said it has no plans to ask foreign travelers to be vaccinated, for the moment asking its "passengers to follow the rules of their country of destination, such as being tested".
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Australia has closed its borders since March to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
Several tens of thousands of Australians are, as a result, stranded abroad, the government allowing the return of only a limited number of its nationals each week.
Qantas already very impacted
This isolation policy seems to have borne fruit, since the country has recorded since the start of the pandemic only 907 deaths for just over 27,800 cases.
Hit hard, like all other airlines in the world, by the sudden slowdown in air traffic due to the epidemic, Qantas cut 8,500 jobs and grounded more than 200 planes.
Several companies have totally collapsed because of the pandemic, including Virgin Australia, LATAM and Flybe.
