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Border Force staff are demanding tougher penalties for airlines that fail to check passengers' Covid paperwork causing huge delays at airports. Even with non-essential travel banned under current rules, pictures show seven-hour queues as officials individually check thousands of passengers' Covid paperwork on arrival.  Last week, a woman collapsed at the passport control desk after waiting for hours to be seen. And, with May 17 marking an end to the government's ban on overseas holidays there are fears the delays could worsen.  The Immigration Services Union - which represents Border force...

EasyJet boss expects holidays to most European countries will be allowed this summer EasyJet boss Johan Lundgren says the 'majority' of European countries will be put on the UK's 'green list' EasyJet's boss thinks travel to European countries will resume soon (Image: PA) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have mo...

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 re...

EasyJet boss shares travel update and countries Brits will be able to visit this summer The earliest date that foreign holidays could be permitted is May 17 The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now European holiday destinations such as Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal should be on the Government's "green list" for foreign travel, according to the boss of easyJet. Chief executive Johan Lundgren said he "would expect almost all major European countries" to be put in the low-risk category when overseas holidays from the UK are allowed to resume. Under the new traffic light system, people...

Summer holiday travel green list will include Spain, Portgual, France and Greece, says EasyJet boss The Government has yet to confirm which countries will be on the list Achladies beach at Skiathos island in Greece, which the EasyJet boss says should be on the 'green list' for travel (Image: iStockphoto) Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. T...