NEW: Airfares could rise more than 50% compared to last year's prices if social distancing measures are enforced on aircrafts amid the pandemic, an industry trade group warns.
Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images, airfares could rise more than 50% compared to last year's prices, an industry trade group warned., suggested -- as part of a temporary, multi-pronged approach to security amid the COVID-19 outbreak -- that passengers and crew members wear face coverings on board, but strongly opposed mandated social distancing rules that would leave middle seats empty.A woman wears a face mask while wait at Schiphol airport, in Netherlands, April 19, 2020.
The group also argues that in the long term, the industry needs to have access to a vaccine to prevent or cure COVID-19. FILE PHOTO: Aircrew for Germany's Lufthansa airline wearing masks during a pneumonia outbreak in 2003."We need a vaccine, an immunity passport or an effective COVID-19 test that can be administered at scale. Work on all of these is promising, but none will be realized before we will need to restart the industry," de Juniac said."That’s why we must be ready with a series of proven measures, the combination of which will reduce the already low risk of in-flight transmission.
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