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Border Force staff are demanding tougher penalties for airlines that fail to check passengers Covid paperwork causing huge delays at airports. Even with non-essential travel banned under current rules, pictures show seven-hour queues as officials individually check thousands of passengers Covid paperwork on arrival.  Last week, a woman collapsed at the passport control desk after waiting for hours to be seen. And, with May 17 marking an end to the governments ban on overseas holidays there are...

EasyJet boss expects holidays to most European countries will be allowed this summer EasyJet boss Johan Lundgren says the majority of European countries will be put on the UKs green list EasyJets boss thinks travel to European countries will resume soon (Image: PA) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your info...

Apr 15th 2021, 8:12 Airports will be unable to cope with the queues at borders if manual checks on passengers are retained when travel restarts at any volume, a senior executive at Heathrow has warned. Heathrow Airport chief solutions officer Chris Garton described the situation as “untenable”. He told MPs: “We need to see a dramatic improvement in performance at the border if we’re to have a restart of travel.” Appearing before the Transport Select Committee yesterday, Garton said: �...

EasyJet boss shares travel update and countries Brits will be able to visit this summer The earliest date that foreign holidays could be permitted is May 17 The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now European holiday destinations such as Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal should be on the Governments "green list" for foreign travel, according to the boss of easyJet. Chief executive Johan Lundgren said he "would expect almost all major European countries" to be put in the low-risk category wh...

Summer holiday travel green list will include Spain, Portgual, France and Greece, says EasyJet boss The Government has yet to confirm which countries will be on the list Achladies beach at Skiathos island in Greece, which the EasyJet boss says should be on the green list for travel (Image: iStockphoto) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to...

He said quarantine should not be imposed on arrivals from those countries “unless something happened”. Mr Lundgren said: “By the time we get to 17 May and the rollout of the vaccination programme that seems to be picking up everywhere we look around Europe, I would struggle to see that there would be – unless something happened between now and then – that there would be many countries who wouldn’t be in that green category.” The easyJet chief executive also called for lateral-flo...

People have been urged “not to go wild” after social restrictions were eased as one expert warned “we could go back to square one”. Professor Anthony Harnden, deputy chairman of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said people should not behave in the same way as they did before the pandemic as he called for people to act cautiously for “a little bit more time”. It comes after the Prime Minister urged people to continue to “exercise restraint” as beer garde...

People returning from holidays in ‘green’ countries will not be required to self-isolate under the new traffic light system.

Most popular European holiday destinations such as Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal should be on the Government’s “green list” for foreign travel, according to the boss of easyJet. Chief executive Johan Lundgren said he “would expect almost all major European countries” to be put in the low-risk category when overseas holidays from the UK are allowed to resume. Under the new traffic light system, people arriving in the UK from a “green” country will not be required to self-isolat...

People have been urged “not to go wild” after social restrictions were eased as one expert warned “we could go back to square one”. Professor Anthony Harnden, deputy chairman of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said people should not behave in the same way as they did before the pandemic as he called for people to act cautiously for “a little bit more time”. It comes after the Prime Minister urged people to continue to “exercise restraint” as beer garde...