After the British were rejected in Innsbruck: What’s in Salzburg?
Last Sunday it was that time again: the blue sky over the Berchtesgaden and Salzburger Land gave way to a milky veil, caused by the engines of the air traffic. There is also a lot of activity at Salzburg Airport. “Amazing” is what you find at the Rupertiwinkel Protection Association. Because one would actually have to assume that in view of the continued tense corona situation, the number of passengers and movements will decrease again.
Protection association chairwoman Bettina Oest is particularly annoyed
Rich that. Even from the virus variant areas, such as the United Kingdom, planes continue to land quickly as in pre-Corona times. “Flights from Holland and Great Britain make up almost two-thirds of the January flight schedule. That surprises me in particular because there are actually high hurdles for people arriving from England when it comes to submitting tests and so on.” Because they did not meet these requirements, 110 British people were most recently turned away at Innsbruck Airport. “You don’t hear such reports from Salzburg, however. And that, although there are a lot more flight movements there,” remembers Oestreich in an interview with the local newspaper. She suspects that in Salzburg simply random checks are being carried out with the intention of doing the tourism industry a favor.
An indirect allegation, which the airport spokesman Alexander Klaus resolutely opposes on request. The checks of the entry requirements are not the job of the airport, but the border police and the health department. “It is you who either turn away travelers or send them to quarantine,” said Klaus, who reported that his knowledge only gave rise to complaints in individual cases. Oestreich, on the other hand, would prefer to see the flights to the virus variant areas significantly reduced. “That must also be in the interests of the airport owners, the city and state of Salzburg,” she explains. Klaus, on the other hand, argues: “People arriving by plane are much easier to control than ski tourists who come by train or car.” A lot of data is given when booking, which is actually only collected on a random basis from those arriving by land.