Safest and unsafest Airports in the world for COVID-19 travel

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Safe Travel Barometer rates airports from a score from 5 to 0 in regards to COVID-19 safety.

Rating qualifications include contactless baggage drop and check in kiosks, traveler face masks, COVID-19 test upon arrival and staff masks among many other criteria.

No airport achieved a score of 4.5 and higher, but 5 airports received a score of 4.4 and can now be considered the five safest airports in the world to travel to and from during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 5 safest airports are with a score of 4.4

  • Heathrow Airport, London, UK
  • Dubai International Airport, UAE
  • Hamad International Airport, Doha, Qatar
  • Abu Dhabi International Airport, UAE
  • Singapore Changi Airport, Singapore

Place 2 of the safest airports are the following 7 with a score of 4.3:

  • Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport Mumbai
  • Haneda Airport, Tokyo, Japan
  • Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, France
  • Ben-Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Newark Liberty International Airport, NJ, USA
  • Beijing Capital International Airport, China
  • Boston Logan International Airport, MA, USA

Place 3 of the safest airports are the following 9 with a score of 4.2

  • Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, The Netherlands
  • Frankfurt Airport, Germany
  • O’Hare International Airport, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Hong Kong International Airport, China
  • Los Angeles International Airport, CA, USA
  • Brisbane Airport, Australia
  • Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, GA, USA
  • Duesseldorf Airport, Germany
  • San Francisco International Airport, CA, USA
  • Inchheon International Airport, Seoul, Korea

Place 4 of the safest airports are the following 9 with a score of 4.1

  • Toronto Pearson International Airport, ON, Canada
  • Manchester Airport, UK
  • Dallas/ Fort Worth International Airport, TX, USA
  • Vancouver International Airport, BC, Canada
  • Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, AB, Canada
  • Munich International Airport, Germany
  • Bordeaux Airport, France
  • Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Germany
  • Zurich Airport, Switzerland

Place 5 of the safest airports are the following 12 with a score of 4

  • Perth Airport, Australia
  • Montreal- Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Canada
  • Bahrain International Airport, Bahrain
  • Adelaide International Airport, Australis
  • Darwin International Airport, Australia
  • Boryspil International Airport, Ukraine
  • Kempegowda International Airport, India
  • Soekarno Hatta International Airport, Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, China
  • Adelaide International Airport, Australia
  • Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia
  • Cologne-Bonn Airport, Germany

Safe but with room for improvements (Score 3.5-3.9)

  • New Chitose Airport, Japan
  • Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, China
  • Torino Airport, Italy
  • Denver International Airport, CO, USA
  • Mactan Cebu International Airport, Philippines
  • Heikou Meilan International Airport, China
  • Budapest Airport, Hungary
  • Chansha Huanghua International Airport, China
  • GMR Hyderbad International Airport, India
  • RIOgaleao Tom Jobim International Airport, Brazil
  • Minneapolis Saint Paul International Airport
  • Fiumiciono Leonardo da Vinci Airport, Italy
  • Tampa International Airport, FL, USA
  • Antalya Airport, Turkey
  • Guangzhou Baiyn International Airport, China
  • Seattle- Tacoma International Airport, WA, USA
  • Miami International Airport, FL, USA
  • Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Jorge Chaves International Airport, Lima, Peru
  • Chubu Centrair International Airport, Japan
  • Ankara Esenboga Airport, Turkey
  • Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport, China
  • Osaka International Airport
  • Paris Orly, France
  • Muscat International Airport, Oman
  • Nice Cote D’Azur Airport, France
  • Kig Fahd International Airport, Saudi Arabia
  • Zvartnots International Airport, Armenia
  • Dallas Love Field Airport, TX, USA
  • Cancun International Airport, Mexico
  • Charlotte Douglas International Aiport, SC, USA
  • George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, TX, USA
  • McCarren International Airport, Las Vegas, NV, USA
  • Vienna Airport, Austria
  • Indianapolis International Airport, IN, USA
  • Milas – Bodrum Airport, Turkey
  • Charlotte Douglas International Airport, SC, USA
  • Naha Airport , Okinawa, Japan
  • Tianjin Binhai International Airport, China
  • Oakland International Airport, CA, USA
  • Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, Ethiopia
  • Sardar Vallabhbai Patel International Airport, India
  • Nuremberg Airport, Germany
  • Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, China
  • Almaty International Airport, Kazakhstan
  • Baltimore Washington International Airport, MD, USA
  • Cape Town International Airport, South Africa
  • Kansai International Airport, Japan
  • Cairo International Airport, Egypt
  • Lyon- Saint Exupery Airport, France
  • Buenos Aires Ministro Pistarini (Ezeiza) International Airport
  • Sofia Airport, Bulgaria
  • Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport, China
  • O.R. Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Pune Airport, India
  • Ynukovo International Airport, Moscow, Russia
  • Fukuoka Airport, Japan
  • Faa’a International Airport, French Polynesia
  • Bradley International Airport, CT, USA
  • Phnom Penh International Airport, Cambodia
  • Casablanca Mohammed V International Airport, Morocco
  • Salt Lake City International Airport, UT, USA
  • Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, India
  • Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport, Mauritius
  • Albuquerque International Sunport, NM, USA
  • Leipzig Halle Airport, Germany
  • San Juan Airport, Puerto Rico
  • Sendai Airport, Japan
  • Dulles International Airport, VA, USA
  • Velana International Airport, Maldives
  • Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya
  • Bali Nguraha Rai International Airport, Bali, Indonesia
  • King Khalid International Airport, Saudi Arabia
  • Vnukovo International Airport, Moscow, Russia
  • Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, TX, USA
  • Melbourne Airport, Australia
  • Nadi International Airport, Fiji
  • Coimbatore International Airport, India
  • Dublin Airport, Ireland
  • Kansas City International Airport, MO, USA
  • Sacramento International Airport, CA, USA
  • Norman Y Mineta San Jose International Airport, CA, USA
  • Nashville International Airport, TN, India
  • Coimbatore International Airport, India
  • Chiang Mai International Airport, Thailand
  • Milano Linate Airport, Italy
  • Chennai International Airport, India
  • Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport, FL, USA
  • Miyazaki Airport, Japan
  • Kagoshima Airport, Japan

The majority of airports not listed here need improvements, some urgent implementation of COVID-19 safe policies and measures.

The three lowest-rated airports in the world with a score of only 2

  • Paine Field Airport, WA, USA
  • Karlsruhe Baden- Baden Airport, Germany
  • Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport, MS, USA

eTurboNews also published a list of 230 safest and not so safe airlines.

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Juergen T Steinmetz

Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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