Only free, mandatory testing will save aviation jobs, unions warn

Tester Samantha Jakstonyte pictured with Niall MacCarthy, Managing Director, Cork Airport at a RocDoc drive-thru Covid-19 testing centre at Cork Airport. Picture: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision
Free, mandatory, and rapid Covid testing must be immediately introduced at airports to save the aviation sector, politicians have been warned.
Unions have said that the urgent rollout of a free mandatory system at airports is needed if the sector is to survive the pandemic.