(TAN): Lufthansa Group has signed up to the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) charter for safe flying under pandemic conditions. In doing so, it has committed itself to the strictest infection protection standards in air travel worldwide, the airline said.
EASA is establishing guidelines that were developed in cooperation with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The Robert Koch Institute is the German representative of the ECDC network. By involving all member states in cooperation with the ECDC, EASA was able to define the strictest rules of an association of states worldwide. Uniform standards have been established which reduce complexity for the airlines and create reliability and additional safety.
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The airports of Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna and Brussels have also committed themselves to the guidelines. This means that an interlocking framework for the protection of passengers on the ground and in the air has been established.
Carsten Spohr, Chairman of the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa, said: “We have introduced extensive hygiene measures along the entire travel chain to optimally protect our customers and our employees…. Only with more uniformity and stability in terms of regulation will more customers book flights again. “
“We are extremely pleased to have Lufthansa and the entire Lufthansa Group as signatories to our charter,” said EASA Executive Director Patrick Ky. “It is important that regulators and industry cooperate closely during these times to apply effective and proportionate measures that will ensure that aviation remains as safe and efficient as ever.”
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The Lufthansa Group will continue to closely monitor the development of the EASA/ECDC guidelines and therefore will transmit key figures to EASA. In addition, the Lufthansa Group enters into a dialogue on the further development of the standards.
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