LOADING

TDM NEWS EVENTS IWTA SERIES TDM

creative website

Today Free Charge

Sign up today free of charge.

Join our global community of over 5 million travel and hospitality executives.

Airlines Demand End To Unvaccinated Passenger Hotel Quarantine

Airlines Demand End To Unvaccinated Passenger Hotel Quarantine

Joe Cusmano

- February 9, 2022

A group representing international airlines has urged to end the mandated 14-day quarantine for unvaccinated travellers, calling the procedure “redundant.”

The Board of Airline Representatives of Australia (BARA), which represents 34 airlines that comprise up 90% of Australia’s international flights, has urged the government to “evaluate the need” for hotel quarantine on capped unvaccinated arrivals.

According to BARA, with less than 100 unvaccinated visitors every day, home quarantine is a more appropriate and efficient use of resources.

“Quarantining this small cohort of passengers, who are then released into a community with COVID widely circulating, is not consistent with the stated rationale of hotel quarantine,” the organisation said in a statement.

“If hotel quarantine were replaced with alternative measures, such as a period of home self-isolation and required testing, it would free up health and other resources that could be better deployed in supporting the current wave of infections within communities.”

BARA cited a recently completed National Review into hotel quarantine, which concluded that “hotel quarantine is difficult to tolerate, especially for vulnerable people.”

“It is an expensive resource and requires a highly specialised workforce to support the system including clinical, welfare and security services to mitigate risk and discharge the duty of care obligations.”

The organisation also cited the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC), which recently stated, “While international travellers now have a higher risk of infection, this may alter when Omicron spreads throughout the community.”

According to BARA executive director Barry Abrams, Hotel quarantine is a “resource-demanding exercise for everyone involved” that was adopted when Australia experienced little to no community transmission of COVID-19.

“With over 400,000 active COVID-19 cases now in the community, the merits of 14 days mandatory quarantine for this small cohort of passengers − who already have a negative COVID-19 test before departure to Australia − does not seem to fit well with its stated purpose,” Abrams said.

It comes after Abrams and BARA criticised the Western Australia government for reversing its planned border reopening, which will leave up to 20,000 Western Australians trapped overseas indefinitely, with arrivals limited to 265 individuals per week.

The WA government proposed that residents fly into neighbouring states, which no longer require any quarantine period for fully vaccinated Australians and visa holders and have no cap on vaccinated arrivals, before returning home and completing two weeks of quarantine.

However, present border limitations require that all domestic entrants be granted an exemption to enter the state.

Furthermore, Abrams stated that such a notion emphasises the necessity to eliminate flight caps and allow home quarantine measures for international visitors landing directly in WA.

“The recent announcement over home quarantine arrangements via entry into other states such as New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia is difficult to understand,” Abrams said.

“Why cannot the passengers fly direct into Western Australia and then home quarantine? And why have hotel quarantine at all then?”

Source: Australian aviation

May we all strive to emulate her virtues and remember that true wealth lies in the depth of our character, the sincerity of our actions, and the impact we have on those around us.”

Stay riveted for our next gala event, The Brand Travel Daily Media Travel Excellence Awards that recognizes and celebrates the outstanding achievements of companies and individuals in the travel, airline, and hospitality industry. They are scheduled to take place in 11 October, 2024

For inquires, to attend or sponsor next awards, kindly email here: Gary@traveldailymedia.com

If you know of any female leaders or up and coming superstars in the Travel and Hospitality industry you would like to nominate, please visit our page and complete a nomination form!
The prestigious IWTA Awards 2024 Award Winners are listed below:

content studio box

…there are many ways you can work with us to advertise your company and connect to your customers. Our team can help you design and create an advertising campaign.

We can also organise a real life or digital event for you and find thought leader speakers as well as industry leaders, who could be your potential partners, to join the event. We also run some awards programmes which give you an opportunity to be recognized for your achievements during the year and you can join this as a participant or a sponsor.

Let us help you drive your business forward with a good partnership!

x Studio

Connect with your clients by working with our in-house brand studio, using our expertise and media reach to help you create and craft your message in video and podcast, native content and whitepapers, webinars and event formats

Airlines Demand End To Unvaccinated Passenger Hotel Quarantine

Joe Cusmano

- February 9, 2022

No posts found.

May we all strive to emulate her virtues and remember that true wealth lies in the depth of our character, the sincerity of our actions, and the impact we have on those around us.”

Stay riveted for our next gala event, The Brand Travel Daily Media Travel Excellence Awards that recognizes and celebrates the outstanding achievements of companies and individuals in the travel, airline, and hospitality industry. They are scheduled to take place in 11 October, 2024

For inquires, to attend or sponsor next awards, kindly email here: Gary@traveldailymedia.com

If you know of any female leaders or up and coming superstars in the Travel and Hospitality industry you would like to nominate, please visit our page and complete a nomination form!
The prestigious IWTA Awards 2024 Award Winners are listed below:

content studio box

…there are many ways you can work with us to advertise your company and connect to your customers. Our team can help you design and create an advertising campaign.

We can also organise a real life or digital event for you and find thought leader speakers as well as industry leaders, who could be your potential partners, to join the event. We also run some awards programmes which give you an opportunity to be recognized for your achievements during the year and you can join this as a participant or a sponsor.

Let us help you drive your business forward with a good partnership!

x Studio

Connect with your clients by working with our in-house brand studio, using our expertise and media reach to help you create and craft your message in video and podcast, native content and whitepapers, webinars and event formats