Originally Posted by
vikingivesterled
Airlines will have to adhere to the rules like the rest of the companies that want to reopen. Similar to restaurants and schools
If they can't manage the recommended distancing separation they can do physical barrier separation. A company like KLM could use it as a marketing tool to entice more back to flying.
They can use something like the old class divider curtains between every row. At least one company has come up with a seats in same row partitioner also.
They can offer each customer a couple of sanitizing napkins to wipe off armrests. And masks should be used.
Security need to allow personal bottles of handsanitizer through so you can sanitize your hands often.
Increase boarding areas so people can queue orderly with greater distance. More floor walkers to rules are followed.
Some sort of cleaning after every flight. Panuts on the floor or sick under your seat would not inspire confidense and will end up in the press.
Ensure proper Hepa filters are installed in air conditioning, and properly cleaned. Cleaning of whole channel system at regular intervalls may be required, similar to what you sometimes do with a gas canister in a car.
Completely avoid possibilities of passengers taking pictures of people on every seat. Excuses by mangement afterwards just sound lame and bare witness of lack of control and that they can't be trusted.
Airlines with sutable planes can also take advantages of possibilities in the cargo market. China-Europe freight is still in a mess. And cargo volumes will rise a lot faster than passenger volumes as people are going back to work without borders being fully opened and quarantines of people still being practised.
Raise prices to required levels. They who fly now are not that price sensitive. The time for getting extra large volumes of passengers back by low low offers will come after CoVid19. Most routes don't even have competition these days.
If you are in the wouldn't fly now as a passenger category, feel free to add what an airline could do that would bring you back. Notwithstanding government no fly rules or impracticability with the long quarantines after cross border travel.
A lot of those are already in place, as masksamasks mandatory, disinfecting gel is allowed when under 100ml (airlines can't change those rules) and aircraft are cleaner differently.
Others are under discussion or too impractible, for example I wonder how dividers, either between seats of rows, are combined with evacuation protocols/times.
Klm already flies more cargo in pax planes than before corona, most flights are either to or from the destination with just cargo (and pax on the other stretch). They got the 747 back in action after retiring them earlier.
They started a partnership with Philips to start a regular flight schedule to bring medical equipment in from China, they do repatriation flights getting people back to their homecountry.
They are doing a lot, as safe as possible. But there is and will always be a balance between safety and profit and as a registered company, they have to make a profit if they ever want to survive.