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Aviation calls for all European Covid travel curbs to be scrapped

Government
Will Payne
11 March 2022

Aviation associations have demanded all remaining Covid-19 restrictions applying to intra-EU and Schengen area travel to be dropped.

Ryanair said its cancellations will impact 80,000 passengers

Airports Council International (ACI) and Iata said all testing requirements, passenger locator forms (PLFs) and the need to present proof of vaccination should be removed now Covid is pervasive throughout Europe.

The groups also called for mask-wearing for travel within or between EU states where it is no longer required in other indoor environments to be scrapped.

They said PLFs for international travel have been rendered "redundant" now contact tracing efforts are being stood down.