WASHINGTON - Major US and European Union airlines asked the EU and White House on Tuesday to consider a joint US-EU programme to test airline passengers for Covid-19 as a way to allow people to travel once again between the United States and Europe.
Nearly all Europeans are currently barred from traveling to the United States and similar restrictions are in place for Americans seeking to travel to most of the EU because of the coronavirus pandemic. Lufthansa spokesman Andreas Bartels said the airline"wanted to raise this topic because we think there is the possibility to test people at the airport, as we have demonstrated in Frankfurt."