California to Denmark in 36 hours – by air: Johnny’s travel odyssey

Johnny Thorsen is a seasoned traveller, but travelling to his home Denmark recently to visit his mother for her 80th birthday proved to be a whole different experience from how it "used to be".

Navigating long haul travel in the age of COVID-19 raises a host of potential roadblocks.

Johnny's story illustrates the variety of challenges he faced - but it also importantly raises a number of issues, notably around the measures being taken throughout the passenger journey to adapt to health requirements.

Achieving standardisation along the whole journey is remarkably difficult. From the array of different national authorities imposing varying - and often conflicting - rules, to the myriad actors along the chain with their individual interpretations of the rules, achieving a seamless traveller-comforting process is complex.

But there is clear room for improvement, if travellers are to be confident enough to return in numbers.