The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and EUROCONTROL jointly published guidelines containing operational recommendations related to the COVID-19 vaccination of air traffic controllers (ATCOs) and operational staff.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends prioritising transport workers, which include ATCOs, in phase 3 of the vaccination programme, unless they have additional risk factors, in which case they would be prioritised on an individual basis. Several States have already included the ATCOs among their priority lists for phase 1 and/or phase 2.