'14-day quarantine' will inhibit flyers even if global aviation resumes: IATA survey 

Even as dely COVID-19 pandemic continues to reign and ecomies across world are resuming operations after lockdown phase while co-existing with virus, International Air Transport Association (IATA) has urged governments to find alternative arrangements to implementing quarantine measures for arriving passengers.

survey conducted by international aviation body in April showed that 86 percent of travellers were concerned about being quarantined while travelling and 69 percent of recent travellers were of opinion that y will t consider travelling if it involved a 14-day quarantine period. 

"Major stimulus from governments combined with liquidity injections by central banks will boost ecomic recovery once pandemic is under control. But rebuilding passenger confidence will take longer," said IATA's Director General and CEO Alexandre de Juniac.

"And even n, individual and corporate travellers are likely to carefully man travel spend and stay closer to home," he said in a statement.

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Due to impact of COVID-19 pandemic, international travel which requires longer hours of journey and halts will be much affected than domestic travel. This makes globally agreed and implemented biosecurity standards for travel process all more critical.

"We have a small window to avoid consequences of uncoordinated unilateral measures that marked post-9/11 period. We must act fast," said de Juniac.

"Even in best of circumstances this crisis will cost many jobs and rob ecomy of years of aviation-stimulated growth. To protect aviation's ability to be a catalyst for ecomic recovery, we must t make that progsis worse by making travel impracticable with quarantine measures," he ded.

"We need a solution for safe travel that dresses two challenges. It must give passengers confidence to travel safely and without undue hassle. And it must give governments confidence that y are protected from importing virus," said de Juniac ding, "Our proposal is for a layering of temporary n-quarantine measures until we have a vaccine, immunity passports or nearly instant COVID-19 testing available at scale."

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(With ANI inputs)​​​​​​​