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Manchester Airport staff are facing another round of redundancies as the hub struggles amid pandemic restrictions.
THE owners of Stansted Airport say more needs to be done to give holidaymakers the confidence to book trips abroad. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said for the first time in many months he was not advising against booking foreign trips and people can start to think about booking overseas summer holidays. He announced a framework for the resumption of overseas leisure travel yesterday, which included requiring all arrivals to take pre-departure and post-arrival coronavirus tests. Post-arrival PCR tests would cost about £120, he said. But that led to a furious backlash from the travel industry, which wants travellers returning from low-risk countries to be allowed to take lateral flow tests, which are cheaper and quicker.
Stansted Airport could be back taking holidaymakers to green listed countries
- Credit: Archant
Foreign holidays with flights from Stansted Airport in Essex will be able to resume “safely and sustainably” from May 17 under new government plans.
Transport secretary Grant Shapps announced a “framework” for resuming overseas leisure travel, which includes requiring all arrivals to take pre-departure and post-arrival coronavirus tests.
Mr Shapps said the plan will ensure we protect our hard-won achievements on the vaccine rollout and create peace of mind for passengers and the industry.
A traffic light system has also been confirmed to manage foreign travel, with people from green countries not required to self-isolate.
London Stansted’s terminal building
- Credit: STANSTED AIRPORT
As the government outlines its plans to reopen international travel, Stansted Airport has said we are going backwards on Covid-19 measures.
Manchester Airports Group (MAG) - which runs the Essex airport - called the government s plan to test holidaymakers for coronavirus before and after they fly hugely disappointing .
A MAG spokesman said: “Government needs to publish which countries will be in the green, amber and red categories of the ‘traffic light’ system at the earliest opportunity and confirm Manchester Airports Group (MAG) - which runs Stansted - that travel can resume from May 17.
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