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07.04.2021 / 21:48

Edmonton airport staff being offered rapid COVID-19 testing through 8-week mobile lab program

Edmonton International Airport are being offered rapid COVID-19 testing as part of an eight-week pilot program meant to streamline results for workers who are exposed to travellers.Mobile medical services provider Numi Health Inc. partnered with Alberta Health Services to offer the pilotThe voluntary rapid tests take less than 30 minutes from swab to result and are available to asymptomatic employees who work with the public, such as airline staff and employees at restaurants and shops in the terminal.“People can return to work safely, or go to work safely and not hopefully worry too much about picking up the virus from co-workers at the airport,” Verburg said.

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Edmonton International Airport ‘drastically much slower’ this holiday season

Edmonton International Airport. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, airport officials say this year will be one of the slowest holiday seasons in 20 years.“It’s quite a different year for us at the airport,” said Steve Maybee, vice president of operations and infrastructure with Edmonton Airports.An estimated 5,959 people will pass through the doors of EIA on Friday, a much lower number than the 23,000 to 24,000 passengers the airport typically sees on this day.

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Edmonton International Airport to pilot rapid-response COVID-19 saliva test

Edmonton International Airport is working with a local company on a pilot program to trial a new COVID-19 test that the company says can produce results in seconds.EIA said it has been selected as the exclusive location to host clinical trials of a coronavirus test that uses a saliva sample from a person and produces a positive or negative result in less than one minute.

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EIA relaunches direct flight to Amsterdam, travel expert unsure of success amid COVID-19

COVID-19 pandemic, Edmonton International Airport is once again offering a direct flight to Europe.Starting Oct. 29, travellers can fly non-stop from Edmonton to Amsterdam with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.“We haven’t had a lot of good news over the last several months,” EIA vice president of operations Steve Maybee told 630 CHED Afternoons with J’lyn Nye on Tuesday.“Getting KLM back to return service is fantastic.“ Four-point COVID-19 recovery plan identified for Edmonton International Airport Right now, international flights can only land at four Canadian airports — Calgary, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

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Edmonton airport traffic not expected to return to pre-pandemic levels until 2024

coronavirus pandemic.DBRS Limited said the issuer rating and revenue bonds rating has been changed from A (high) to A.It is also forecast that that passenger volumes will not reach pre-coronavirus levels until 2024, though a vaccine could lead to a faster recovery.Before the pandemic, DBRS said passenger volumes had declined by 1.2 per cent to 8.15 million in 2019, largely as a result of the Boeing 737 MAX aircrafts being grounded in March 2019.It also points out economic challenges.

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Four-point COVID-19 recovery plan identified for Edmonton International Airport

Edmonton International Airport fully recovers economically from COVID-19. CEO Tom Ruth recently met with city council’s COVID recovery task force, and laid out a four-point plan to get things back to normal.A motion to have Mayor Don Iveson write the provincial and federal governments to assist with the recovery will be up for debate in early July after it was introduced this week.EIA is asking that the province put its debt for capital projects on hold for 18 months, that the federal government waive fees for three years, that overseas flights resume as soon as possible and that promotional work resume to assist the local hospitality industry.Ruth told Global News the recovery at the airport has turned the corner.

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One of world’s biggest cargo planes lands at Edmonton International Airport

One of the biggest cargo planes in the world made a stop at the Edmonton International Airport (EIA) Saturday afternoon.

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Edmonton International Airport lays off 40% of workers as passenger traffic drops by 95%

Edmonton Airports announced Wednesday it was forced to reduce its workforce by up to 40 per cent, a move that is expected to impact up to 100 union and non-union positions at the international airport.

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Coronavirus: Plane full of PPE lands in Edmonton from China

A cargo plane full of personal protective equipment landed at the Edmonton International Airport late Sunday night.

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Edmonton airport closes part of terminal amid COVID-19 pandemic

The Edmonton International Airport has closed down parts of its terminal.

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