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How do you manage to travel those days? Social media travelers report boarding masked planes, gloves and even plastic coatings all over the body. Airlines have their own prerequisites related to cleaning and body workers dressed in masks in service (including, in the case of JetBlue, the use of an ultraviolet robot to disinfect between flights).
But what about airports, notoriously crowded and hectic public spaces where thousands of foreigners have to be in close contact on a daily basis? COVID-19 has forced small personal corporations to step in and supply many of the facilities that were once unconventional at airports: locating parking for und driving cars, sticking decals to remind passengers to stay away from each other and queuing. other people outside the airports: the most important thing a traveler does is a position to queue.
According to the TSA, the number of other people who arrived through U.S. airports. It fell from 1.2 million on March 16 to less than a million on March 22. The numbers continued to fall the following month, reaching just over 87,000 on April 14, 2020. By comparison, on April 14, 2019, 2.2 million more people passed TSA checkpoints in the United States.
For better or worse, many U.S. states. They are lately in a reopening stage. This is accompanied by the construction of improvements and the desire for airports to reduce the threat of installing a viral hot spot. Many had to improvise their own answers to the question of how, exactly, to do this, while the number of ers began to increase steadily: on August 13, 761821 ers were sent to the TSA, according to their website. It’s still much less than the same day in 2019 (2.6 million), but a big step forward compared to another 87,000 people in April.
Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) announced in March that it would conduct an “on-site examination” of all passengers to detect the coronavirus, which would have been set up for foreign arrivals in January: take the temperature, ask passengers if they felt sick and have them fill out questionnaires. The resolution caused skirmishes and delays at the airport, and a spokesman told Business Insider that, despite the pandemic, DFW was one of the busiest airports in the world in May, June and July.
Some opt for low-tech solutions: Boston Logan has announced new plastic displays in “high-traffic spaces” to protect workers, among other measures. Salt Lake City stated that it restricted access to the airport only to workers or ticketed passengers. Phoenix now asks for a mask at the scene.
An Orlando airport spokesman told Business Insider that he manages crowds with new signage and screens around the terminal to remind passengers to keep their distance and wear a mask. In early July, it also announced the installation of vending machines that would distribute non-public protective equipment.
A representative from the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA), which manages O’Hare and Midway airports, told Business Insider that he had published “hundreds of ground decals” to remind passengers of social distance and advise them on how to train. proper lines. San Francisco airport also told Business Insider that it has installed about 15,000 new physical distance markers.
StickerYou, a professional stickers and stickers company of 90 people and 10 years old that said its consumers had included SpaceX, Google and Home Depot, told Business Insider that it had started operating with some U.S. airports. On your signage. Sticker originally set out to create traditional stickers for skaters, but found that small and medium-sized companies, such as craft breweries, have become their biggest consumers. With the pandemic, there were requests from airports and hotels, a segment of the market that was not very open to them in the past.
“We switched to airport marketing in March,” said Michael Ishak, StickerYou’s vice president of sales. “When he hit COVID-19, we switched to making stickers and labels for hand sanitizers.”
Airports required traditional decals to direct traffic, as well as wall decals, window meshes, and table and chair decals to keep others away from others. The hotels, on the other hand, ordered “seals” for the rooms – stickers with perforations – which would be placed in a door after cleaning to show that the room had not been altered. In the end, Ishak said, airports asked for larger sizes and more decals than ever before, all in the call to build a social estrangement.
“You can say there’s a more competitive message,” Ishak said.
In addition to looking to keep passengers in the right lane, disinfected and away from each other, you also have to worry about airport workers. QLess, a California-based company whose call is a “tailless” game, is line control software that says it is now running with San Francisco and Denver to minimize the time airport workers have to wait in line. and said he now works with more than 1,000 corporations and organizations around the world and has prevented more than “100 million more people over 6,000 years from queuing.”
SFO showed Business Insider that it is in the process of implementing QLess operations and expects to hold them up until the end of August 2020. Airports in Dallas, Minneapolis and Phoenix have also stated that they have QLess on board since before the pandemic, and if they were helpful, they are now needed.
Think about how a eating position (remember the eating positions?) It will send you an SMS to let you know what your online position is if there is a long wait. QLess offers a similar service. Instead of waiting hours on a worker’s call, the worker can now wait at home until he or she has to show up for their appointment.
“We are one of the largest airports in the country and others will have to constantly move to the badge workplace to renew them,” said a DFW spokesman. “Now they are proving very useful at a time when we seek to prevent other people from rushing.”
Airport security services are among the busiest locations in the terminal, said Charlie Meyer, QLess’s vice president of sales. On average, they get between one hundred and 500 day-consistent security requests for new credentials, renewals, fingerprints, or replacements for lost identifiers. Before COVID-19, at 10 or 11 a.m., insurance can have a full line of other people for the rest of the day, waiting for hours.
“It’s definitely a wake-up call,” Meyer said.
“We were lucky. We’re kind of like Zoom right now when it comes to an explosion of interest and sales,” he added, referring to the popular video messaging software that grew exponentially once the pandemic began and house paintings became the norm. On all levels.
Contacted through Business Insider, a Denver airport spokesman said his flagship’s workplace “needs to make several changes to day-to-day operations to restrict visitor contact and social estrangement.” He asked QLess to help him with this so that everyone would be older.
“All DEN airport workers can check wait times at any of the credential offices and enter the desired queue from the DEN Insider worker cell app without having to be in our offices,” an airport spokesman said. Employees are then notified by SMS when it’s their turn.
“This is helping us with social estrangement protocols by reducing the number of consumers on the badge at any time,” the spokesman said.
QLess stated that he had been “in contact” with the TSA regarding the supply of similar passengers, but nothing has yet arisen. Regardless, the Minneapolis airport said it was operating with a separate company to “manage lobby flows” and “help balance passengers between our checkpoints.”
Beyond COVID-19, Meyer said he fully hoped that they would continue their partnerships with airports. After all, if you can queue for hours digitally than physically and live your life in the meantime, why not you?
“In many ways, we get ahead of the generation curve in cell tails,” Meyer said. “It’s great to see society catch up.”
In addition to airport and passenger safety, many airport partners have been affected by the pandemic. WhereiPark, a small Toronto-based company launched in 2014, was already operating in three hundred homes in North America. From early April, he said he had added “all major car rental companies” in Seattle, Chicago O’Hare, SFO, Denver and LAX to his consumer list—all the massive centers that needed to locate car cargo seats that would be on the road.
The company focuses on locating open parking spaces, whether on residential or advertising sites, that have recently become underutilized due to the lack of other commuters. Even before the pandemic, the corporate sought to make greater use of urban spaces.
“If you have an apartment construction with an ad tower nearby, those have precisely opposite moments where other people have to park there,” said Jeremy Zucker, one of the company’s founders.
When the pandemic hit, car rental companies at airports found the backdrop in a difficult and space-free scenario. These corporations base their genuine real estate decisions (i.e. the number of parking spaces they need) on the assumption that only 30 to 40% of their fleet will be on at some point, said Alex Enchin, the other WhereiPark discoverer. But, obviously, this is no longer the case.
“If you take a look at the parking at the airport, the value is based on the maximum rates for short-term parking. Hertz and Budget don’t need to spend $1,200 a month to park 400 cars,” Enchin said. At first, when the rental cars came back, he said, the cars were queuing in the streets because the outlets had nowhere to put them.
“We’ve helped a lot of those corporations locate other places for their cars instead of the airport,” Enchin said. The company installed newly renovated warehouses, stadium parking lots, church parking lots and college campuses that were not used differently and helped companies buy them all the time. Notice/Budget declined to comment. Enterprise and Hertz did not respond to a request for comment.
Beyond airports, Zucker and Enchin said they hoped to expand systems for flexible parking arrangements everywhere, especially as others hesitate to use public transportation.
“There’s a big change,” Zucker said. “Who knows what’s going to push back here.”
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