Travel will open up bigtime when Gov announce an update to the FCO guidance and some travel corridor agreements - likely announcements this week coming, and could see the changes in place from 29 June.
Some bargains to be had for those who book now, e.g. Ryanair flights going v cheap.
TUI have said they will only fly passengers to destinations with no quarantine requirements for UK arrivals and where there is no quarantine requirement when returning to the UK.
Could take this as TUI putting pressure on Gov to remove quarantine requirement, or more likely they have had...
Yeah would think USA ('special relationship') plus all EU countries would be the starting point. Maybe not Sweden- looking a bit dodgy on infection rate and its not coming down..
Looks pretty likely the 14 day quarantine on return to UK could well be ditched by / on 29 June for travel from many countries, so I guess some people may take the risk to fly out before then- on the basis the measure will have gone by the time their return flight lands.
Other considerations...
Shapps interview on Sky News said ‘air bridges’ won’t come into force before 29 June. From which I take it they will come into force on the 29 June! They have to ditch it for EU countries surely.
Spain ditching their quarantine requirement for UK travellers from Sunday.
I think Airlines in general are expecting restrictions to be eased and things up and running by July. Not sure if this is based on discussions with Gov or simply because the projections suggest infection rates will be much lower by then across Europe / USA
Agree with that. But I'm just not sure travel without the quarantine would be a significant factor for case numbers, particularly from the EU where everyone(?) has lower numbers than us.
And- the quarantines which seem more effective actually put people up in hotels like Maty Ryan had to do in...
The scientific argument for quarantine NOW rather than EARLIER Gov is putting forward is that when you have large numbers of domestic cases, the amount arriving from abroad is a low percentage of the overall problem. Once domestic numbers have gone down, and travel to the UK potentially...