The president of the Canadian Airports Council said that Canada doesn't need to check travellers on arrival.
The travellers were waiting in line at the airport.
The photo is from the National Post.
The group that represents Canadian airports is calling on the federal government to lift the last vestiges of its Pandemic travel requirements after news broke that the United States will no longer require pre-departure testing.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. president will no longer require COVID-19 tests before flights to the U.S. on June 12. The Canadian Airports Council said that Canada should do the same.
Monette Pasher, interim president at Canadian Airports Council, said, "This is very welcome news and I think it speaks to a growing global consensus to remove testing mandates for travel." Canada doesn't need to check and vet travellers at our airports.
The Canadian government decided to randomly test arriving passengers instead of requiring a negative COVID-19 test for inbound travellers.
Despite the change, airports and airlines are still dealing with huge passenger delays and service disruptions. Pasher stated that random mandatory testing increases delays. The situation has gotten worse because of labour shortages for security and border control checkpoint.
Some reports say that travellers are waiting hours to have their luggage checked. Planes have sometimes had to wait on the tarmac just as long for passengers to disembark due to insufficient staffing at the terminal.
Air Canada canceled nine percent of its flights at Toronto Pearson between June 1 and 9.
Peter Fitzpatrick, an Air Canada spokesman, said in an email that delays can have a negative effect on the company.
If an aircraft is held at a gate longer than expected or a flight is suddenly canceled, that can affect the schedules of crews and the ground staff servicing the aircraft.
Pearson is the busiest airport in the country and handles more than 30,000 international passengers a day. On average, Montréal-Trudeau International Airport handles 15000.
The Greater Toronto Airports Authority saidbottleneckeds at Toronto Pearson last month led to nearly half a million passengers aboard international flights facing delays.
A small percentage of flights at Toronto Pearson have been canceled this week, but the exact number is not clear. Kruger said that the company is very concerned about the situation at airports.
She said in an email that they continued to advocate for the removal of legacy measures.
Canada would be in line with countries such as Spain, Italy and Israel if it removed all travel requirements.
Pasher said that the biggest amount of lineups was at that location. It's on the way to the country. This is the piece that needs to be taken more seriously.
The email is bbbharti@postmedia.
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