Air France to check passenger temperature from Monday

Air France crew members distribute facial masks to passengers at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport on May 6, 2020. From Monday, May 11, passenger temperatures will be monitored. REUTERS / Benoit Tessier

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New device in Air France planes to limit the spread of the virus: from this Monday, May 11, the airline, which timidly resumes its regional flights, will control the temperature of all passengers before boarding.

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Before getting on Air France planes, from Monday, we will have to tighten the front. The temperature will be taken using non-contact infrared thermometers. Verification will be systematic and passengers with a temperature above 38 degrees may be refused access to the aircraft. It is a health measure to which many workers have already complied in companies.

Other provision: the wearing of a mask will be compulsory on planes from this Monday.

For several weeks now, the airline has implemented procedures for cleaning its aircraft. A virucidal product "  whose duration of effectiveness is established for 10 days  " is regularly sprayed in the cabins. Air France also specifies that the air recycling systems of its aircraft filter viruses of the coronavirus type.

From this Monday, the company will resume some inter-regional commercial flights. It plans to resume more inter-continental flights in mid-June.

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