A lack of common travel protocols could cost the world trillions of dollars, Dubai Airports CEO says

A lack of common travel protocols could cost the world trillions of dollars, Dubai Airports CEO says

Countries have not yet come to a consensus on how to safely restart travel amid the coronavirus crisis, and this could cost the global economy trillions of dollars, according to the chief executive of Dubai Airports."We don't have an agreed testing procedure for a reliable, accurate and scalable test, and that needs to happen," Paul Griffiths told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Monday."Secondly, there's no harmonization between the control measures and the need to have a quarantine regime that is both effective and non-intrusive," he said. Dubai Airports owns Dubai International and Dubai World Central Airports in the United Arab Emirates.The aviation industry has been hammered by the outbreak of the coronavirus, with air travel coming close to a complete halt as countries closed borders to slow the spread of the