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U.K. Reopens Travel to 12 Locations, Paving Way for Wider Return


U.K. Reopens Travel to 12 Locations as Tourist Hotspots Miss Out
Bloomberg
1 day ago
Christopher Jasper, Tim Ross and Siddharth Philip
(Bloomberg) Britain will permit relatively open leisure travel to just 12 nations and territories including Portugal as it seeks to restart tourism while keeping control over the coronavirus pandemic.
A legal ban on international leisure trips will be eased from May 17, the Department for Transport confirmed on Friday. Return journeys from approved countries will require Covid-19 tests but no period of quarantine.
Also on the “green list” with Portugal and its island provinces of Madeira and the Azores are Israel, Iceland, the Faroes, Singapore, Brunei, New Zealand and Australia, together with the British territories of Gibraltar and the Falklands. There’s no place for the European holiday hotspots of Spain, Greece and France, and trans-Atlantic trips vital to some airlines remain on hold. ....

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The high life


Dramatic TV images of COVID-19 vaccines being air lifted to the UK from European factories mean the airfreight sector has never felt more significant. What was once just a boring ordinary supply chain is now a matter of life or death.
It is also a matter of politics. Exiting the European Union will impose red-tape and additional checks on inbound and outbound freight. Until April, those effects are muted by opt-outs, but soon they will tell.
The combined effect of pandemic and Brexit is to mute trade volumes: compare December 2020 with December 2019 and there is a dip, but by no means a cliff edge. Total tonnage carried to UK airports fell from 202,100 tonnes to 187,600 tonnes. ....

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