Istanbul Airport's ‘Safe Travel’ illustrates airport challenges

Istanbul Airport has released a comprehensive three and a half minute video - 'Everything is ready for safe travel' - which seeks to convince passengers that one of the world's biggest (eventually) and newest airports has done everything it can to ensure their safety while they are passing through it.

Several airports are attempting to take a lead by promoting their measures, and they are led by the new Istanbul Airport (IST), which opened in Oct-2018. IST's measures are, to say the least, comprehensive.

This slightly tongue-in-cheek report puts those measures under scrutiny.

At the same time, Iceland is looking to kick-start its critical tourist industry again as the main season gets under way. The tourist industry is a mainstay of the Icelandic economy and Iceland is keen to get it going again, since the main period, through to the end of September, is already under way.

Icelandair's chief commercial officer has said that the carrier is in negotiations with Reykjavik Keflavik Airport for the implementation of bio-security measures while Iceland starts reopening its borders.