The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has created a Global Covid-19 Airport Status platform that is updated through the Notam service. The Notam service is how airports and civil aviation entities report on flight operations and airport status.
Several airports around the world have scheduled opening as of 1 July, including international airports in the Dominican Republic that are closed until 1 July 2020. Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, Norway and Finland are among the first to reopen. France, Spain and Italy have announced reopening airports for 1 August. Ukraine is scheduled to reopen 1 July, but Russia not until 15 July. In the Americas, in addition to the Dominican Republic, Canada and Colombia are expecting to reopen 1 July. The United States is scheduled for a 1 September reopening.
ICAO on 1 June 2020 released its recommendations aimed at restarting the international air transport system. The Covid-19 report and guidelines is a compendium of health and safety recommendations and take-off guidelines to align public and private sector actions and mitigations as efforts are underway to get the world flying again. The COVID-19 report and guidelines were produced by the Council’s Aviation Recovery Task Force (CART).
CART Chairperson Ambassador Philippe Bertoux, the representative of France to the ICAO Council, noted that the CART guidelines were intended to inform, align and progress the national, regional, and industry-specific COVID-19 recovery roadmaps now being implemented, but not to replace them.
“These guidelines will facilitate convergence, mutual recognition and harmonization of aviation COVID-19 related measures across the globe,” he emphasized. “They are intended to support the restart and recovery of global air travel in a safe, secure and sustainable way.”
“In order to be effective, we need to take a layered and especially a risk-based approach. Measures will be implemented or removed as needed based on the wide-ranging medical and other factors which will be at play,” he said.
9 June 2020