KLM gets its way: no quick test for cabin crew | Inland

Last Wednesday, the cabinet announced a double test obligation in addition to a flight ban from the United Kingdom, South Africa and South America. If you want to go to the Netherlands by plane, train or ferry, you must be able to show a negative pcr test and also undergo a rapid test no later than four hours before boarding. The test also applied to flying personnel.

Unworkable, KLM already announced before the parliamentary debate. The airline said that it could not run the risk of having to leave personnel in another country if the test result was positive. KLM immediately announced that it would cancel almost all long-haul flights. After all complaints, the cabinet asked the Outbreak Management Team for an alternative test plan. “On the basis of this positive advice, we are prepared to grant airline crews an exemption from the test requirement before departure to the Netherlands,” the cabinet wrote to the Lower House.

The condition is that the personnel at their destination abroad must be quarantined and come into contact with no other people than the cabin colleagues, the so-called ‘crew bubble’. The condition of the negative test result of an ordinary corona test remains.

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