Covid testing rules for travellers will end soon

“I do expect across the world, the testing regime for travel will start to disappear pretty quickly and we’re hopeful that there will be an announcement over the next few weeks from many different places.”

— Paul Griffiths

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Paul Griffiths, Chief Executive, Dubai airport, believes that the testing regime for travel will end soon. In fact, he said that there would be announcements over the next few weeks from different countries.

The UK, for example, does not require vaccinated passengers to take a Covid test, while Bahrain recently said that those arriving would not need any tests. “I do expect across the world, the testing regime for travel will start to disappear pretty quickly and we’re hopeful that there will be an announcement over the next few weeks from many different places,” Paul Griffiths was quoted saying. He mentioned that “the whole idea of having to have tests for travel will give way to vaccination certificates”. Griffiths, however, did not say when Dubai would start winding down testing regimes.

Dubai has plans to reopen its second airport, Al Maktoum International in May for scheduled, commercial passenger flights for the first time since the pandemic began

Dubai airport is expecting to see passenger traffic more than double this year to 57 million from 29.1 million in 2021, although that is far below the 86.4 million passengers the airport handled in 2019. Griffiths said bookings for the next three months were among the strongest the airport had ever seen and the 57 million target for this year could end up proving conservative.

Dubai has plans to reopen its second airport, Al Maktoum International in May for scheduled, commercial passenger flights for the first time since the pandemic began, Griffiths said. Al Maktoum will handle some passenger flights that typically operate from Dubai International during refurbishment works at the main hub that will close one of its two runways for 45 days.

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