Originally Posted by
GUWonder
It wouldn’t be acceptable to a huge percentage of travelers. But there are segments of travelers that would tolerate it.
Migrant laborers and migrant students may accept travel with 5 day quarantines. People going on longer-term business/work assignments or extended vacations/sabbaticals may accept it too. People doing long VFR trips may accept such. But it indeed won’t work out for most of those trips that the flying travelers had been accustomed to doing.
The airlines are going to struggle to survive, and those which survive into next year are going to be flying into a strong headwind since 2019 air travel demand levels are not going to be back anytime soon.
Many travellers are not holiday makers or short-term business travellers. A lot of travel is for family reunion purposes. I have family in Italy, my wife is Swedish but we live in Australia. Caring for our families isn't possible under the current restrictions. I fully understand the need for quarantine but I hope governments will show some compassion and logic in allowing a shorter - more manageable quarantine such as home based backed up by random checks etc.