They urge White House not request COVID-19 testing on domestic flights.
A coalition of airline, travel and aerospace industries and union and airport groups on Friday urged U.S. President Joe Biden not to impose new COVID-19 testing requirements for travelers on domestic flights.
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The federal government has been mulling additional measures to fight the spread of the coronavirus and officials said this week health agencies are “actively looking” at such testing, Reuters reported.
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The industry, airport and union groups said in a letter to the White House that requiring tests before domestic air travel “is unwarranted.” It would “disproportionately prevent low-income travelers and rural Americans in small communities from travel,” said the International Air Transport Association, Airlines for America, U.S. Travel Association, Aerospace Industries Association and aviation union and airport groups.
This week, the United States implemented mandatory COVID-19 testing for nearly all arriving international passengers and added South Africa to its ban of entry of non-U.S. citizens arriving from most of Europe and Brazil.
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