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Ireland’s High Court released a ruling yesterday declaring so-called “screen scraping” by Online Travel Agents (OTAs) illegal, a practice than often results in customers being overcharged. Several websites such as Kiwi.com, eDreams, trip.com and Super Saver are known to use the practice which sees them booking flights and extras for [read more]

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said he will meet with airlines and airports saying that they have “seriously oversold” flights and holidays compared to their capacity to deliver. He has intervened after thousands had flights and holidays cancelled as a result of staffing issues. Mr Shapps called the scenes that [read more]

The Government has revealed which 12 countries will be listed as green under its traffic light system for travel during the COVID pandemic. Portugal, Gibraltar and Israel were confirmed as green but popular destinations Spain and Greece were not. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says that we must ensure that where [read more]

The UK Government is expected to announce which countries will feature under which colour on the COVID traffic light system later this week. The system will allow travel without the need to self-isolate for 14 days on return to countries that appear on the green list but this list could [read more]

The sales of summer holidays have surged in the last 24 hours according to the UK’s biggest tour operator thanks to Boris Johnson outlining the Coronaviurus lockdown exit strategy. TUI reported a 500% increase in holiday sales in the last 24 hours prompted by the plans to ease restrictions and [read more]

The UK Government is set to close all coronavirus travel corridors between the UK and other countries from 04:00hrs on Monday 18th January. The move means that all passengers arriving into the UK from Monday will need to quarantine for 10 days, which can be reduced to 5 if a [read more]

The UK has pushed back its requirement for all passengers arrving into England to have proof of a negative COVID test 72-hours prior to arrival. The rules were originally due to come into force today but have now been pushed back to Monday 18th January. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced [read more]

Russia & India are the latest two countries to join a growing list of countries to ban travel to and from the UK. Russia is suspending flights from the UK for 7 days while India is blocking all flights until New Year’s Eve from Wednesday. The move is in response [read more]