Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci International Airport is the world’s first airport to receive the COVID-19 5-Star Airport Rating by international air transport agency Skytrax. Skytrax is known for its yearly “Best Airports” rankings and this year, they included an anti-COVID star rating based on “a combination of procedural efficiency checks, visual observation analysis, and ATP sampling tests,” as they said in a release.
Rome’s airport is the first to tick all the boxes needed to get five stars, and that says a lot. There are plenty of things that make it amazing and safe during these uncertain times. The busiest airport in Italy now features a 7,000-sq-ft. COVID testing center that was opened on September 1st and is co-managed with the Italian Red Cross.
Some other things that made the airport rate so well include a strict mask-wearing policy, easily readable signs in multiple languages, enough cleaning staff, and the efficiency of standard airport procedures.
Skytrax’s system goes from two to five stars where two stars mean that the airport “needs work,” three that it’s “average,” four that it’s “good,” and five mean “very high standards of airport cleanliness and maintenance procedures.” In comparison, London’s Heathrow, Nice Cote d’Azur Airport, and Malaga Airport all got 3 stars.
