Check-in terminals, security checkpoints and baggage claims are heaving as airlines attempt to iron out the kinks in their return to large-scale travel. Here's what you can do to safeguard your holiday.
From Suva to Rome, New York to Paris, and Christchurch to Athens, tourists are desperate to escape a gloomy winter in the southern hemisphere for an overdue summer holiday in a glamorous European hot-spot.
"Most airports are already packed out because of the restarting of international travel," said Adrian Esterman, chair of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of South Australia. With travel restricted during the pandemic, airlines cut their workforces, leaving a shortfall once travel resumed again in March this year.
"Delays and cancellations everywhere. Why? Because there's no staff. Why? Because conditions and pay have been lowered for over a decade," said Eoin Coates, head of aviation at the European Transport Workers’ Federation, in a tweet last month. "So those lines are automatically longer, it doesn't matter if it's international or domestic. And so, as a result, it's creating a situation where… the systems that were being invested in by governments are no longer as seamless as what they were," he said.
If you do get COVID-19, depending on the country's rules, you might need to isolate, which may have a domino effect on your plans.
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