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UK industry bosses call for US-UK travel corridor
Airlines

The chief executives from British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Heathrow Airport have joined forces to plead for the UK government to introduce a trans-Atlantic travel corridor as soon as next month. The aviation industry leaders have joined in a rare joint plea to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, arguing that the successful rollout of vaccination

Biden officially signs third US aviation aid package
Airlines

US President Joe Biden has officially signed the third COVID-19 relief bill that will protect thousands of jobs in the aviation industry for the next six months. The bill includes an additional US$14 billion in wage assistance for airlines, as well as US$9 billion for airports and other adjacent businesses. It serves as one part

Comment: Could someone fake a vaccine passport?
Airports

In this cross-posting with The Conversation, computer science professor Dave Parry explains how the IATA’s ‘Travel Pass’ works on a wide scale, and the potential loopholes someone could use to get around it. Although international travel restrictions for Australia have been extended to at least June, there may still be potential for a trans-Tasman bubble

Dubai’s new iris scanners in lieu of passports raise privacy concerns
Airports

The world’s busiest international passenger airport, Dubai International Airport, has begun using iris scanners as a contact-free method of identity verification on all passengers, according to a report by the Associated Press. While the airport has been testing such biometric technology as a means of passenger identification for many months, the program has been hurried

Comment: How people can end up living at airports for months or years at a time
Airports

In this cross-posting with The Conversation, aviation historian Janet Bednarek explores how people may end up living in airports, and why it happens more often than you might think. In January, local authorities arrested a 36-year-old man named Aditya Singh after he had spent three months living at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Since October, he

Comment: How to fix COVID temperature checks
Airports

The University of Portsmouth's Mike Tipton and Simon Fraser University's Igor Mekjavic discuss why temperature checks for COVID aren't ideal.

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