18.03.2021 12:00

Delta to offer more quarantine-free flights to Italy

Delta Air Lines will offer COVID-tested flights from New York's JFK Airport to Rome and Milan, Italy starting next month, the airline announced on Wednesday.

The new flights, launching April 1 and April 2, 2021, respectively, will allow eligible travelers to avoid Italy's mandatory 14-day quarantine on arrival. The flights are not for leisure travelers but available to individuals permitted to travel to Italy for essential reasons, such as for certain specified work, health and education reasons.

To fly on Delta’s COVID-tested flights from New York to Milan (Malpensa) and Rome (Fiumicino), passengers need to test negative for COVID-19 on at least three separate occasions, including a PCR test taken up to 72 hours before departure, a rapid antigen test administered at the airport in New York and another rapid test on arrival in Italy.

"A year after air travel stalled to levels not seen in living memory, these COVID-tested, quarantine-free flights provide a real boost to the aviation industry," Delta’s Alain Bellemare, E.V.P and President – International, said in a statement. "We are starting to see more global vaccination programs but until they become more widespread, corridor flights like this can help keep our customers and crew safer when they fly."

 

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