Heathrow boss warns airport distancing unrealistic as 'it would require 1km queues'

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Post-lockdown social distancing in airport queues won't work because they would need to be a kilometre long, the boss of Heathrow Airport has warned.

John Holland-Kaye has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to "take a lead" in agreeing a common international standard for health in air travel to "save jobs". “Forget social distancing – it won’t work in aviation or any other form of public transport, and the problem is not the plane, it is the lack of space in the airport," he wrote in a Daily Telegraph column. "Just one jumbo jet would require a queue a kilometre long." The CEO said while social distancing at airports is completely impractical, a "package of measures" similar to Asia since the Sars crisis needs to be in place by the