Introduction: According to United Nations World Tourism Organization (2021), International

tourist arrivals for overnight visitors have dropped by 85% in the first half of 2021 compared to
2019 due to international border restrictions. These restrictions resulted in a severe collision
with Aviation Industry. On the other hand, Vaccine rollouts are increasing day by day, and
countries are confident enough to ease international travel restrictions (United Nations World
Tourism Organization, 2021). However, the post covid aviation will be different, and Data
Science and Innovation will play a massive role in extricating this sector. Data Science
Opportunities in Aviation Post COVID-19 Research shows that the post-pandemic era is related
to "Revenge Travel" (Sudjana et al., 2021). However, this trend must be managed carefully by
following appropriate measures that can help to stop the transmission of Covid-19 or any other
viruses. As more people are willing to travel, the Aviation sector must meet all measures for
passenger safety such as appropriate social distancing, thoroughly sanitized environment on
the airport, minimal physical touch, contact tracing and many more. Advance services like
"Contactless Travel", "Digital Health Passport", "AI that can Identify Infected one", and many
more will help to ensure more reliability. Indeed, the main task to developing the services will be
"Data" that is precise and will lead to relevant outcomes to make life easier and safer. Airport
management must provide a contactless travel experience to its passengers to avoid spreading
the virus at the airport. A study published that in-flight transmission of COVID-19 is one case per
27 million travellers (Bielecki et al., 2020), while the study on the flight between Singapore to
Hangzhou shows that most of the COVID-19 outbreak did not occur during the flight (Chen et
al., 2020). The central aspect of achieving it is using Electronic Passports and IDs, Boarding
and check-in with facial recognition, AI-based Health screenings, unaccompanied robots to
sterilize aeroplanes and airport areas, and security checking. Electronic Ids and Passports:
Countries can shift to Electronic IDs and passports linked with biometric and personal details,
and airports can have access to them directly with biometric of individuals. Electronic IDs will
reduce the physical touch. Also, airports can use the same credentials for boarding and
baggage passes. AI-Based Health screening on airports: Sometimes, it becomes an uphill battle
to handle massive passenger loads and then screening them. Instead of screening by staff,
airports can move to intelligent systems such as AI-based algorithms that can help detect
symptoms in an individual by mass scanning, used for both arrival and departure passengers.
Korea has used the same model for fever screening and detecting symptomatic individuals (Cho
et al., 2014).