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Hawaiian Airlines will offer customers drive-through coronavirus testing in California to help island-bound travellers avoid a 14-day quarantine rule —its answer to rival United Airlines’ new on-the-spot airport screenings.
The competing testing plans would satisfy Hawaii’s requirement for visitors to show a negative test result within 72 hours of arrival in order to avoid its self-isolation rule, which has discouraged most travellers to the island state.
The popular vacation spot has become a testing ground for US airlines seeking to reassure travellers that flying is safe and meet local government restrictions curbing Covid-19 so that they can revive demand that collapsed during the pandemic. Hawaii’s testing rule goes into effect from October 15.
Hawaiian Holdings Inc’s first drive-through nasal swab testing labs will be located near the Los Angeles and San Francisco international airports.