Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced the amount of international travel, however, the speed and convenience of jet travel is unparalleled and our love of visiting far flung places at low cost will not have gone away for good. Now is an ideal time to review the health considerations of travelling in order to provide safe advice to our patients, who are increasingly elderly and travel with a wider range of medical co-morbidity. The purpose of this article is to consolidate guidance from the Civil Aviation Authority and the International Air Travel Association with supplementary travel information from other specialist organisations to help develop understanding of the issues air travel may pose for patients in primary care.

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