Europe’s major airlines called for “an immediate end” to the EU’s traffic light system last week, calling the system “haphazard” and ineffective.
Airlines for Europe (A4E) leaders at a summit in Brussels slammed the requirement for manual checks of EU Digital Covid Certificates (DCCs) and passenger
locator forms (PLFs) by airline staff. However, they hailed the EU DCC system as having become “the de facto global standard”.
A4E represents carriers including easyJet, Ryanair, British Airways and Iberia owner IAG, Air France-KLM and Lufthansa.
The group called for “an immediate end to the EU’s haphazard, colour-coded system” blaming it for “long airport and call centre queues, flight delays and cancellations”. A4E also urged the EU to end the requirement for passengers to wear face masks and “discontinue use of PLFs”.
It called on EU leaders “to speed up development of technological solutions which could facilitate verification of DCCs as part of passengers’ online check-in” and urged “an alignment of travel rules and recognition of DCCs by the US authorities”.