The San Francisco International Airport (SFO) announced the opening of an additional on-site COVID-19 testing location available to passengers and airport workers. The site, operated by Worksite Labs, is located in the Reflection Room, situated pre-security in the International Terminal, near the...

The WestJet Group today announced a significant expansion to its COVID-19 testing program through AZOVA, a leading digital health technology platform, giving guests the confidence to book their holiday travel knowing all their COVID testing requirements are available at https://www.azova.com/westjet...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) outlined an agenda for the UK to restore its air transport sector to health by embracing a simpler COVID-19 testing regime, ensuring affordable, competitive airport costs, and working for net-zero air transport. Speaking at the UK Aviation Club, ...

Cignpost ExpressTest (a division of Cignpost Diagnostics Ltd) has expanded its drive through Covid-19 screening service at Birmingham Airport. The tests on offer are priced at £59 per person for travel passengers and £69 per person for Day 2 Arrivals tests. ExpressTest is delivere...

London City Airport has announced it is expanding its testing capabilities with a new, larger facility in partnership with Collinson, the expert in global medical assistance and travel experiences. The brand-new facility, located less than a minute’s walk from the airport terminal, will be abl...

Swedavia has signed an agreement with ExpressCare to set up a test center at Göteborg Landvetter Airport. ExpressCare performs PCR and antibody tests around the clock every day of the week and has a laboratory in the airport-based test center for analyses. A travel certificate signed by a spe...

Dubai Airports has hailed the decision of the Italian government to waive the 10-day quarantine requirement for all categories of traveller from the UAE, in favour of test-based travel protocols, with effect from 2nd June 2021. All passengers arriving on flights from the UAE to the Italian airpo...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) applauded the growing number of countries making data and evidence-driven decisions to open their borders to vaccinated travelers. The latest data collected by IATA, including its Timatic service, shows that more than 20 countries have wholly or ...

Ethiopian Airlines Group has announced that it has joined with BGI Health Ethiopia, a subsidiary of China's biotech giant, the BGI Genomics Co., Ltd, to launch high-end Covid-19 testing laboratory at its main hub and the continent’s busiest airport, Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. Curre...

IATA has teamed up with a European diagnostic services provider to use its global testing network as part of the association’s Travel Pass. The new deal will make Unilabs one of the first major lab groups to be integrated into the app which is designed to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 te...

Emirates today commenced trials of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Travel Pass, a mobile app to help passengers easily and securely manage their travel in line with any government requirements for Covid-19 testing or vaccine information. The first passengers travelling from...

British healthcare company Salutaris People has today officially confirmed it plans to launch ten private Covid test suites across the UK in the coming months to cope with what it predicts will be a huge demand when international air travel resumes after 17th May. The first four private Covid-19...

A Covid-19 testing site has launched near Kaunas Airport providing paid services provided by a laboratory research company Rezus.lt. In Kaunas, recommendations remain analogous to those that apply at Vilnius Airport, in order for the test to be performed at the airport, travellers should register...

Korean Air customers will be among the first in the world to have access to an IATA app that provides a secure system to manage their Covid-19 testing or vaccination information digitally. Korean Air will test the digital travel pass developed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA)...

From March 1, passengers travelling though Vilnius Airport will have the option of conveniently conducting the necessary Covid-19 test before or after the flight. Lithuanian laboratory “Rezus.lt” has opened a coronavirus testing site in the premises of Lithuania’s main air gateway. The provide...