A great innovation by Frankfurt Airport and Lufthansa. However, their focus seems to be on providing the ability to prove that someone is COVID-19 free for the benefit of a receiving state and not creating an entirely COVID-19 “green zone” within the airport for all travelers, airport staff and flight crew. Additionally a price pointContinue reading “Lufthansa, and Fraport Launch the First Walk-In COVID-19 Testing Facility in Germany at Frankfurt Airport, but will it work?”
Category Archives: COVID-19 Airport Testing
Coronavirus: governments urged to move fast on travel bubbles in Asia-Pacific | South China Morning Post
Bilateral agreements are the way to unlock travel. But confidence is needed at government, corporate and consumer level. Even if a state has low to no COVID-19 cases surely testing prior to entering an airport is the best way to develop that confidence? Lets hope that collaboration starts soon. South China Morning Post
LAMP Testing at Airports, the breakthrough travel needs
Testing has been the cornerstone of most countries response to COVID-19 containment. The current most used technique is Polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The issue is it can take 4-24 hours to get a result, requires laboratories, skilled staff and lots of reagents and can cost north of $100 a test. Blood, or serology based testing,Continue reading “LAMP Testing at Airports, the breakthrough travel needs”
The search for speed and accuracy
The travel sector has been massively hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Short of a globally administered vaccination there seems little the industry can do to mitigate the impact. Indeed aviation is often pointed at as being a big part of the problem. Spot solutions such as deep cleaning, thermal cameras, self declarations and quarantine onContinue reading “The search for speed and accuracy”
Making travel safe again 