Aviation consultant advises frequent flyers to prepare for multiple health-care screening steps at airports in addition to normal checks when flying resumes.
Social distancing is not a problem right now most airports, where you’ll find more workers than passengers these days.
The usually crowded concourse is now almost barren as local and state leaders propose new, COVID-19 screening measures for international passengers.
Shashank Nigam runs his own aviation consulting firm, called Simpliflying. Nigam predicts the entire boarding process could take upwards of four hours in the future as airlines implement new screening measures.
Currently people are arriving at the airport two hours earlier. We are expecting in the days right after the travel bans are lifted, people will be arriving up to four hours earlier,” Nigam said.
Passengers could also be required to show proof of COVID-19 immunity while undergoing enhanced health screenings in a type of scanning tunnel.
Nigam also said to expect that the jet bridge will act as a disinfectant tunnel.
“As you walk through it, you’re getting sprayed by these invisible particles that by the time you board the plane, it is completely safe for everyone to fly,” Nigam predicted.
He says carry-on bags would be sanitized and another immunity check would be done when the plane lands.
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