Scots travelling to Portugal now have to self-isolate on return as country moved to amber list
Any travellers returning to Scotland from Portugal beyond June 8 will have to self-isolate at home for 10 days.
18:07, 3 JUN 2021
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Scots will no longer be able to jet off to Portugal without the need to quarantine (Image: Getty Images)
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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: “Our biggest issue is the performance at the borders.”
Non-essential travel to and from the UK remains banned but Garton said: “We’ve typically had queues of two hours and up to six hours [at the border].
Pilots slam Norwegian Air over owed salaries following UK collapse
Norwegian Air last month said it will close its UK arm, which employed 1,100 people at Gatwick Airport (Getty Images,)
Pilots have hit back at Norwegian Air after it emerged the airline will not pay outstanding salaries to laid-off staff following the collapse of its UK operations.
The British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) today said staff were demanding answers as to why they had been left with “absolutely nothing”.
Norwegian Air last month announced it would shut down Norwegian Air Resources (NAR), its UK crewing business that employed 1,100 people at Gatwick Airport. KPMG has been formally appointed as liquidator to NAR.