Coronavirus: 'Let us test passengers on Scottish domestic flights,’ demands aviation boss
4 years, 3 months ago

Coronavirus: 'Let us test passengers on Scottish domestic flights,’ demands aviation boss

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “So actually having a pilot that's protecting the islands seems to me to be a relatively low scale, hopefully affordable, and certainly deliverable test. Paramedic jet suit trialled in Lake District “It would only work if we get the ferries as well: this is about everybody going to the islands. “If these systems are going to work they've got to look at the whole problem, not bits of the problem.” Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy The PC Agency, said:“Luckily, visionary bosses in aviation are trying to protect important British infrastructure, and progress at speed with sensible and logical solutions."

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These countries are still Covid-free
2 years, 11 months ago

These countries are still Covid-free

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Other islands elsewhere have also stayed Covid-free according to the World Health Organization: Niue, Tokelau, Saint Helena, the Cook Islands …

PCR test appointments temporarily unavailable in many parts of Scotland
3 years ago

PCR test appointments temporarily unavailable in many parts of Scotland

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Ease travel rules to rescue inbound tourism, airlines demand
3 years, 10 months ago

Ease travel rules to rescue inbound tourism, airlines demand

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “As long as quarantine is in place, borders are almost shut.” Jonathan Hinkles, chief executive of Loganair, said: “Restrictions today …

Airlines eye ‘enormous pent-up demand’ for travel this summer
3 years, 10 months ago

Airlines eye ‘enormous pent-up demand’ for travel this summer

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Johan Lundgren, chief executive of easyJet, said: “Borders are almost shut.” Along with his counterparts at British Airways, easyJet, Jet2, …

Covid testing before travel to the UK: the key questions and answers
3 years, 11 months ago

Covid testing before travel to the UK: the key questions and answers

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “If the test result does not include this information you may not be able to board, and may not be …

British Airways passengers from UK must test negative for coronavirus before departure to New York
4 years ago

British Airways passengers from UK must test negative for coronavirus before departure to New York

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Nicola Sturgeon bans travel into Scotland and announces three-week lockdown from Boxing Day
4 years ago

Nicola Sturgeon bans travel into Scotland and announces three-week lockdown from Boxing Day

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Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The first minister also said the toughest level of coronavirus restrictions would apply across Scotland …

Spain to demand negative Covid tests from ‘high-risk’ arrivals, including UK
4 years, 1 month ago

Spain to demand negative Covid tests from ‘high-risk’ arrivals, including UK

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The favourite overseas country for British holidaymakers is to demand evidence of a negative Covid test …

British Airways trials testing on transatlantic flights
4 years, 1 month ago

British Airways trials testing on transatlantic flights

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. ”If a customer tests positive, they should reschedule or cancel their travel.” On touchdown at Heathrow, passengers will undergo a …

Testing at airports won’t replace need for travellers to quarantine, says head of NHS Track and Trace
4 years, 2 months ago

Testing at airports won’t replace need for travellers to quarantine, says head of NHS Track and Trace

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. While she didn’t put a timeframe on the project, Baroness Harding stressed that testing was unlikely to be the “silver …

UK arrivals to be tested for Covid 'as soon as practical', says Matt Hancock
4 years, 4 months ago

UK arrivals to be tested for Covid 'as soon as practical', says Matt Hancock

Daily Mail  

Matt Hancock today insisted coronavirus testing for arrivals in the UK will be introduced 'as soon as it is practical'. During an LBC radio phone-in today, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government recognised how much strain 14-day quarantine was putting on the travel industry Airport chief executives claimed testing, alongside other measures, could save 110,000 jobs industry-wide. Led by …

Airlines plead with Boris Johnson to introduce airport coronavirus tests to get round quarantine
4 years, 4 months ago

Airlines plead with Boris Johnson to introduce airport coronavirus tests to get round quarantine

Daily Mail  

Britain's biggest airlines urged Boris Johnson to bring in a regime of airport coronavirus testing today in a bid to eevive air routes with pandemic hot-spots like the United States. The chief executives of British Airways, TUI, easyJet and Virgin Atlantic have written to the Prime Minister, warning him that major routes connecting the UK with important world centres are …

British holidaymaker forced to quarantine in Greece after testing positive for coronavirus
4 years, 4 months ago

British holidaymaker forced to quarantine in Greece after testing positive for coronavirus

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. These will be mandatory and you should comply with the Greek authorities’ requirements.” The hotel has since undergone “extensive cleaning”, …

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