Bristol Airport is urging the Government to create a “regional approach” to quarantine as it reports a 73 per cent fall in visitor numbers.
Chief executive David Lees said 273,000 people had travelled to and from the airport in August - plummeting from the near one million at the same time last year.
The airport also now only has routes to 80 destinations - down from 120 in 2019.
Mr Lees said the Government’s current “blanket approach” was “devastating”.
He said: “We continue to urge government create a regional approach to quarantine rather than the devastating blanket quarantine measures currently in place.
“Government should also accelerate the decision to introduce a Covid-testing regime for customers on arrival in to the UK from high risk infection rate countries thereby reducing the period of quarantine.
“This would provide confidence to customers and reassurance of being able to travel safely during these unprecedented times we are all facing.”
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Sky News that MPs are "thrashing out details" on a testing regime.
"We are working with Heathrow and other airports on this project," he told Sky. "The challenge is - because the virus can incubate inside your body without coming forward and without therefore a test being positive even if you've got it - the challenge is how to do that testing in a way that we can have confidence enough to release the quarantine."
Quarantine rules are currently set by each UK nation separately, with Switzerland, Jamaica and the Czech Republic being added to the list on Saturday (August 29).
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted last week that British holidaymakers should "only travel if you are content to unexpectedly 14-day quarantine on return".
The news comes a month after Bristol Airport confirmed plans to cut nearly 100 jobs after suffering from the fall in demand for air travel caused by the pandemic.
The airport, which directly employs around 400 people, is reducing its workforce by 23 per cent, according to a letter to staff seen by BusinessLive.
The airport told employees it would make a “very significant” loss this financial year and its position was "unsustainable".
ADS, the UK trade organisation representing the aerospace, defence, security and space sectors, is also urging the Government to provide more support to a sector decimated by the Covid-19 crisis.
Chief Executive Paul Everitt said: “The aerospace industry needs further support from the Government to secure its future and return to long-term sustainable growth.
“The Comprehensive Spending Review and Autumn Budget must put in place a bold plan for economic recovery.”
