travel

Switzerland could be removed from the UK’s coronavirus safe travel list later this week according to sources. The alpine country has just passed the UK Goverments threshold of 20 cases per 100,000 people with latest figures putting Switzerland at 20.7. Neighbouring Austria was removed from the list along with Croatia [read more]

The UK Government has today announced air bridges to 59 countries which will allow travellers to fly to them without the need to quarantine for 14-days on return. The countries pose what the government calls a “reduced risk” of coronavirus transmission and include some of the most popular holiday destinations [read more]

Greece has extended its ban on flights from the UK for at least another two weeks as a result of the still relatively high cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK. Holiday companies and Tour Operators had hoped to restart flights to Greece in early July without the need to [read more]

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has rejected the UK Government’s 14-day quarantine calling it “ineffective and useless”. The airline says that for a quarantine to be effective it needs to detain passengers upon arrival to the UK but under the UK Government’s plans the mobile numbers of arriving passengers will [read more]

The UK and Ireland are to be added to the travel ban set by US President Trump according to US news sources. The move will exempt US Citizens and Green Card Holders but if they are travelling from Europe to the US they will have to fly into one of [read more]

Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has said that it is cutting flights between the 17th March 8th April, mainly to and from Italy where there will be a 25% reduction. The move is in direct response to a falloff in demand following the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. In addition to the [read more]

International Airlines Group (IAG), which owns British Airways (BA/BAW) and Aer Lingus (EI/EIN), has said that it is starting to see a decline in demand for flights to areas with Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreaks. Announcing it’s full-year results for 2019 the group said that the earnings outlook is “adversely affected by [read more]

Scottish airline Loganair (LM/LOG) has today put its winter schedule on sale with a series of enhancements including extending some summer routes into winter and extra capacity on existing winter routes. Some of the schedule highlights include the continuation of its Manchester – Inverness – Stornoway route throughout the Winter [read more]