Dubai International Airport, the world\u2019s busiest for international travel, is getting busier. But it\u2019s a long way from what it once was amid the coronavirus pandemic as it prepares for a possible \u201dextended, slow recovery,\u201d its CEO told The Associated Press. After long-haul carrier Emirates drastically cut its flights in March and slowly resumed its routes, passenger numbers at the mammoth airport serving East-West travel have crept up to over 1 million a month \u2014 just below 15% of what they were a year ago, CEO Paul Griffiths said. To boost those numbers, Griffiths is urging countries to move away from mandatory quarantines on arriving passengers and toward the strategy embraced by Dubai. That includes aggressive coronavirus testing before departure, followed by mandatory mask-wearing on aircraft and testing on arrival.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we have to do is take appropriate measures to control and manage the risk, which actually are acceptable. I mean, life is full of risk management. It\u2019s not all full of risk elimination,\u201d Griffiths told the AP in an interview Monday. \u201cSurely the same should apply to the virus. We need to get it under control to minimize the risk of infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dubai International Airport, the world\u2019s busiest for international travel, is getting busier. But it\u2019s a long way from what it once was amid the coronavirus pandemic as it prepares for a possible \u201dextended, slow recovery,\u201d its CEO told The Associated Press. After long-haul carrier Emirates drastically cut its flights in March and slowly resumed its routes, passenger numbers at the mammoth airport serving East-West travel have crept up to over 1 million a month \u2014 just below 15% of what they were a year ago, CEO Paul Griffiths said. To boost those numbers, Griffiths is urging countries to move away […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}