Monette Pasher says wait times and arrival tarmac delays at large airports improved immediately after the step went into effect Saturday.
Transport Minister Omar Alghabra announced a day earlier the federal government would pause tests of arriving international passengers selected at random, and that mandatory rapid tests for unvaccinated arrivals will happen off-site starting July 1. The airports council and other industry groups are now calling for an end to vaccine mandates for passengers and aviation employees, saying that hundreds more workers could be on the job supporting more travellers.
The government continues to require 14-day quarantines of unvaccinated Canadian passengers and to bar unvaccinated foreigners from entry. Ottawa says the country’s airport security agency has hired 865 screening officers since April, with more coming as Canada’s four largest airports gird for a 50 per cent rise in passenger numbers within weeks.Share this article in your social network