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The boss of Britain's biggest budget airline has reacted furiously to the decision to remove Portugal from the "green list" of quarantine-free countries. Johan Lundgren, chief executive of easyJet, said it was "a huge blow to those who are currently in Portugal and those who have booked to be reunited with loved ones, or take a well-deserved break this summer". The CEO deplored the decision, saying: "With Portuguese rates similar to those in the.
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-flow tests to replace PCR tests for arrivals from green-listed countries.
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