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EU commission could reopen travel by June with restrictions By Orla Barry © Thibault Camus/AP/Pool A passenger shows his mobile phone with an uploaded antigen and PCR test prior to board at the Paris-Orly airport, April 27, 2021. A European measure could allow EU residents to travel across the 27-nation bloc this summer via a digital certificate. As European leaders review plans to open up the continent for tourism, the news comes like “light at the end of a long tunnel,” said hotelier Mark Gauci.  The Maltese hotel owner runs The Barrister hotel, a boutique hotel in t...

The Government said the punishments ‘form part of the UK’s tough border measures’.

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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...

Travel latest news: Tui insists summer holiday season can be saved Lizzie Frainier The boss of Europe's largest tour company said he was 'optimistic' for foreign summer holidays this year. Tui Group chief executive Fredrich Joussen credits successful vaccine programmes in the UK, US and Europe for his optimism. He told the BBC: "We are still confident that we will have a decent summer. "All medical advice we are getting as a company says that existing vaccines are working with existing variants. "Now they might be less efficient sometimes, but still it's much better than not ...