Cabin and flight deck staff on services to Shanghai and Hong Kong are being given tests said to be 97% sensitive to the virus and which produce results “within 30 minutes”.
The airline said it planned to extend testing to services to Barbados and others throughout October.
Corneel Koster, the airline’s chief customer and operating officer, said: “This trial is a first step in our phased plan to introduce regular testing for all of our teams in the air and on the ground, in order to instill confidence in flying.
