Where will you be able to travel again in summer?
Many holiday-hungry people are asking themselves that at the moment.
The airline association also considers transatlantic flights to be possible again.
The umbrella association of airlines (IATA)
expects transatlantic air traffic to open up in June
.
"We are quite optimistic," said IATA boss Alexandre de Juniac.
He assumes that both sides will agree on common rules for safe air traffic before the summer travel season *.
The EU and the USA have imposed extensive entry restrictions due to the corona pandemic, which still apply.
Transatlantic flights in prospect from June: approval for digital European vaccination card
De Juniac welcomed the EU plans for a single digital European vaccination card.
The "digital green proof" should document
corona vaccinations, but also the results of approved PCR and rapid tests as well as survived corona infections
and be ready on June 1st.
It is only problematic if there are too many different digital solutions, said de Juniac.
That made traveling too complicated for the passengers.
The organization has developed the
"IATA Travel Pass"
itself
.
It is an app for the mobile phone in which travelers can save forgery-proof vaccination and test certificates and show them to airlines and immigration authorities if necessary.
The app should be available from April.
De Juniac hopes that the EU certificate can be integrated into the IATA travel pass.
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Billions in losses due to the Corona crisis
The airlines are
still in a mood of crisis
after the
unprecedented decline in passenger numbers in Corona year 2020
, as de Juniac said.
On average, fewer than half of the flights per month are on the usual routes.
The number of passengers is as low as it was in 1998 - a decrease of 66 percent last year.
Governments would have supported the industry with $ 225 billion (about 189 billion euros).
Of this, a good half (54 percent) must be repaid.
Passenger traffic revenue fell by $ 418 billion last year.
De Juniac, former CEO of Air France-KLM, will retire as IATA general manager at the end of March.
His successor is William Walsh, the former head of British Airways and its holding company International Airlines Group (IAG).
(dpa)
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