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
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