Airport blacklist

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued a world-wide list of airports in what it determines the areas of highest coronavirus infection rates.

Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is a major component in the organisation but is set to leave with Brexit at the end of 2020.

EU member states are likely to follow the EASA guidelines, typically Greece, who has confirmed that passengers arriving from airports which EASA considers “high risk” may well be the subject of extra quarantine requirements when it opens its borders on 15 June.  Spain says it wants to welcome British tourists back as soon as possible. It will receive foreign visitors from 1 July. A pilot scheme for the Balearic and Canary Islands will operate in the last two weeks of June being tracked through an app.

The  EASA “risk rating” is based on where an airport is rather than the hygiene of an operation, but it does throw up anomalies with Stansted considered a “high risk” and Southend, only 30mi away, not listed.   Most of Britain’s major airports are on the blacklist with the exception of Glasgow and Edinburgh.

www.btnews.co.uk

www.easa.europa.eu/SD-2020-01/Airports

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