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Views: Visits 14 Given their direct contacts with air travellers, airlines and regional bodies have urged governments to treat aviation employees as essential workers as the COVID-19 vaccination campaign kicks off in different parts of the world. The International Air Transport Association (IATA), the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA), Airports Council International Latin America and the Caribbean (ACI-LAC) and the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO), jointly said the aviation workers are just as central to the disease prevention as the heal...

GENEVA, 18 December 2020:  The International Air Transport Association renewed its campaign calling for employees in the aviation sector to be designated essential workers during the impending Covid-19 vaccine campaign. IATA has asked governments to prioritise aviation sector employees for inoculation after health care workers and vulnerable age groups. IATA’s 76th Annual General Meeting last month unanimously adopted a resolution stressing aviation worker are essential in the distribution chain. “We are not asking for aviation workers to be on top of the list, but we need governments to...

16 Dec 2020 / 12:01 H. Pix for representational purpose only. KUALA LUMPUR: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has renewed its call on governments to ensure that employees in the aviation sector are considered as essential workers during the impending Covid-19 vaccine campaign, once healthcare workers and vulnerable groups have been protected. In a statement, IATA director-general and chief executive officer Alexandre de Juniac said the transportation of the Covid-19 vaccines had already begun, which would require the equivalent of 8,000 Boeing 747 freighter aircraft for gl...