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The report contradicts previous expectations from industry leaders that most European countries would be in the Government s quarantine-free category.
Johan Lundgren, easyJet s chief executive, said when asked if he expects destinations such as France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Cyprus and Turkey to be on the green list: Yes, by the time we open up for travel on May 17 and if the Government continues to have the plan in place on the two-test system.
Senior industry figures told MPs on the Transport Select Committee last week that the proposed traffic light system is too complex while the overall strategy set out by ministers is very vague in many areas .
Apr 15th 2021, 8:11
The government’s advice to people looking to book overseas holidays is “to wait” until early May to see how destinations are categorised under the new traffic light system.
Aviation and maritime minister Robert Courts warned prospective holidaymakers “risk disappointment” if they don’t wait when he appeared before the Transport Select Committee to answer MPs’ questions about the government’s Global Travel Taskforce report on Wednesday (April 14).
The report ditched the government’s insistence that it’s “too early to book a summer holiday” and said: “People are free to book holidays abroad in the summer.”
Courts insisted: “We’re able to offer more optimism to travel.” But he told MPs: “Now we’ve published the framework we can say people can start looking to book.
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].