• UAE bans Nigerians on transit from other countries
• Emirates charges extra N25, 800 - N36, 800 per antigen test in Abuja, Lagos
Nigerians embarking on international trips should brace up for fresh COVID-19 safety measures and chaotic flight schedules if they are lucky to find carriers on their scheduled routes. x
This is as countries are changing the travel advisories more rapidly than ever, with travellers paying more for flights, high likelihood of being caught mid-air and stranded on international routes.
Effective yesterday, for instance, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), banned airlines from picking Nigerians transiting through other countries, among other new protocols. That is, only Nigerian passengers flying directly from Nigeria are now welcome in Dubai.
By accelerating the establishment of vaccination and testing certifications, IATA has stressed that governments can better support the re-establishment of global air connectivity.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called on governments to partner with the air transport industry to devise plans to safely re-link people, business and economies when the COVID-19 pandemic situation permits. A priority for this critical cooperation is the acceleration of the establishment of vaccination and testing certification.
“We can see the light at the end of the tunnel as vaccination programmes roll out. Turning this vision into a safe and orderly re-start will require careful planning and coordination by governments and industry. This will be challenging, as the priority for the weeks and months ahead will be containing the spread of new variants. But, even as the crisis deepens, it is important to prepare the way for a resumption of flights when the epidemiological situ
Munich Airport Receives ACI Airport Health Certificate
29 January 2021
The airport association ACI World has presented Munich Airport with a certificate for its commitment to preventing the further spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The “ACI Airport Health certificate” confirms Munich Airport’s successful implementation of effective health and safety measures in accordance with the recommendations of the International Civil Aviation Organisation - ICAO Council’s Aviation Recovery Task Force and the joint EASA/ECDC Aviation Health Safety Protocol. (EASA -European Union Aviation Safety Agency, ECDC - European Center for Disease Prevention and Control)
The Airport’s Council International Europe - ACI EUROPE guidelines for safe air travel are also consistently implemented at
SINGAPORE - Despite widespread expectations of a gradual recovery, the global air travel has stalled amid border clampdowns by governments more concerned about the spread of Covid-19 than the health of their economies.
Chief executive officer and director general of the International Air Transport Association (Iata) Alexandre de Juniac lamented that international and domestic air travel numbers have flattened out through November last year due to the absence of a balanced approach to tackling cross-border travel. And the outlook for the first quarter of this year looks dismal. While we still see airlines turning cash positive within the year, the near-term picture is bleak, he said at a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday evening (Jan 12).
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Montréal, 9 December 2020 – Speaking today to the 7th Meeting of the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Global Tourism Crisis Committee, ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu emphasized that a combination of measures, coordinated between governments and industry, will be essential to the re-establishment of public confidence in air travel. “I wish to reaffirm ICAO’s commitment to this re-establishment of public confidence in air travel, and to getting the world travelling again,” Dr. Liu commented. She added that the UN agency for civil aviation was accelerating the sector’s recovery to bring prosperity and sustainability back to Small Island, Landlocked, and the many other countries who rely so fundamentally on the socio-economic dynamics of transport and tourism.