Germany is considering slashing air travel to 'almost zero' as queues build up at border checkpoints. Chancellor Angela Merkel told her parties' legislators she did not want a travel ban, but with the pandemic raging this winter there should be no tourism, sources said. Interior minister Horst Seehofer earlier told the Bild newspaper Merkel had asked him to examine ways of limiting the scope for mutant variants to enter Germany. Measures considered included closing borders with regions where the new variants were more prevalent and reducing the number of flights to almost zero. It comes as long queues of vehicles formed at the Czech-German frontier on Monday as tighter restrictions for travel into Germany came into force.