About a month ago, Easyjet had a policy that on arrival, pax would leave the aircraft one row at a time, so as to ensure social distancing. Last week, that policy had been effectively abandoned with the usual rush for the exit when the seatbelt sign was turned off
The only way to build confidence amongst pax, is to either a) have a vaccine, b) provide PCR or antigen tests with suitable paperwork near a person's home shortly before departure for free or at minimal cost (and this will fail if Govt require 2 tests spaced out a week apart to avoid quarantine), or c) have sufficiently low numbers of cases in both origin and destination that people believe the risk of quarantine anywhere is extremely low.
Anything about publicising how armrests are disinfected, or spacing people out at security queues is purely symbolic. There is enormous overcapacity of aircraft right now - the only way to persuade airlines to raise fares significantly is if a large number of major airlines go bankrupt... or Govt pass laws requiring aircraft fly at no more than maybe 33% of seat capacity
I hate to say it, but the travel industry right now is not a priority for Govts around the world
Last edited by davidjohnson6; 11th Oct 2020 at 10:51.