Two air passengers an hour were denied travel over issues with Covid documents

Two passengers every hour were refused boarding to aircraft at Irish airports because of problems with Covid-19 test certificates or pandemic travel documentation.

ne airport source revealed that 30 passengers were initially declined travel in one day across all Irish airports last month.

However, the majority were able to travel within 12 hours once documentation or test issues had been resolved.

Numbers refused travel have dramatically fallen as people adapt to the documentation demands – on one day this month, just three people were declined travel.

Problems reported included people trying to travel with antigen Covid-19 test certificates when their destination country required a specific PCR test.

Another issue was passengers having Covid-19 tests which were time expired for international travel.

“What people need to realise is that if you are vaccinated and have the vaccine certificates to prove that, it makes everything so much easier,” the source said.

Irish airports – in common with other EU airports – are required to implement the bloc’s Covid-19 travel restrictions at the point of origin.

Passengers who do not comply with Covid-19 travel documentation requirements for their intended destination country are not…