American Airlines’ chief executive said at a conference on Friday that the pre-departure COVID-19 testing requirements were ‘nonsensical’ and were ‘depressing’ leisure and business travel
Chief Executive Robert Isom said on Friday at a conference the testing requirements were “nonsensical” and were “depressing” leisure and business travel.
Isom, who met with politicians in Washington on Thursday to discuss the issue, said 75 per cent of countries American serves do not have testing requirements. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requires travellers to test negative within one day before flights to the United States. He noted testing rules do not apply to people crossing U.S. land borders and noted the Boston Red Sox baseball team in April flew to Toronto to play the Blue Jays – but rode a bus home to avoid the testing requirements.
“We know it will help induce and incent travellers to go abroad, bring more commerce in, more business in so hopefully they will get it done soon,” Bastian said.
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