"And the plane flew."

Faisal Muhammad Al-Shamri

August 15, 2020

If someone came in December 2019, and said that life would change, and jungle animals would take to the streets of crowded cities in some countries, and that the world's airports would stop their flights, and that tourism and civil aviation would witness a stifling crisis, several companies declared bankruptcy because of them, or asked to reschedule their debts, expelled many of their employees and reduced them. Their salaries, let's call us crazy!

Many things and aspects make the traveler want to stop time and return to what was before "Covid-19". The electronic reservation and interactive exchange services saved valuable time and saved us from the hardship of comparing flight reservations prices and consulting airline offices.

However, Corona has another opinion and has an audible word. The current travel name is confusing, forcing us to consider returning to the 1980s approach, and the regulations of countries varying from the presence of a precautionary reservation for periods that may reach 14 days, or that travel is easy without any conservative measures. And requesting a medical examination or not, and whether airlines reach the desired destination or will we spend the 'transit' flight, which made the traveler prefer to stand under the rays of the summer sun, rather than remain locked into the walls of the medical reservation.

The role expected from our national companies and our global airports is to clarify travel options, differences and procedures, and its advantages, for example countries such as Serbia are satisfied with a medical certificate proving that the traveler is free of infection to receive him, it will be a preferred option for a neighboring European country that refuses to receive the traveler or requires his reservation for 14 days. And a country in which infection levels have decreased to or near zero numbers is better than traveling to a country that has lost control and avoids conducting checks, so that its officials, the media and the public are not aware of the scale of the epidemic.

This role will only take place in immediate coordination with our competent authorities, which have succeeded with distinction in managing this global epidemic file. These parties are better able to transfer the mutual travel requirements to contribute to the restoration of the normal situation, and the gradual return of travel traffic to what was before "Covid-19". Also, embassies of friendly countries, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, can offer travel privileges and restore the wheel of civil aviation to its former brilliance and glory, by offering travel and savings options offered by their countries, as some countries have covered part of the costs of trips to their countries to encourage the restoration of the tourism sector to its activities and inject support into the sector account Most affected.

As well as the local tourism authorities and departments, are required to explain the travel requirements according to the destination from which the traveler will present.

Collective work and cooperation between airlines and tourism agencies in highlighting the state’s efforts and leadership in the numbers of those tested, the success of the national sterilization program, the reduction in deaths, the numbers and proportions of those recovered, is a duty and a means to highlight the state’s status, which will be positively reflected in the speed of recovery of the affected sectors. Likewise, we do not want to hear that a traveler from our homes was detained for violating the precautionary medical quarantine or faces imprisonment or a fine there for violating the regulations of another country due to his ignorance of it, and so that the traveler does not say tearful eyes and bitterly:

"And the plane flew."

- A non-resident internal administrative advisor at the Emirates Knowledge and Consulting Center at the Mohammed bin Rashid College of Governmental Administration

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