British startup FlyPop has unveiled a fully liveried Airbus A330 aircraft as it seeks to launch flights between the UK and India once travel restrictions are lifted. The airline has been set up to provide a direct connection between London Stansted and Amritsar to make it easier for the Indian [read more]
Budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has accused the online travel website Kiwi.com of issuing fake boarding passes for its flights meaning that passengers will be turned away from flights they have paid Kiwi.com for. Founded in 2012 and previously known as Skypicker, Kiwi.com is based in the Czech Republic and claims [read more]
easyJet (U2/EZE) is prepared for the begging of the 2021 summer holidays with schools in England breaking up this week and joining their Welsh & Scottish counterparts. The airline says that it expects to carry around 135,000 this weekend which is an almost 100% increase in 2020 but still far [read more]
Ibiza, Mallorca and Menorca are being added back to the UK’s amber coronavirus travel list just two weeks after they were given the green light for holidays. The popular Spanish Balearic Islands were given the green light on the 24th June but the UK government announced today that from Monday, [read more]
Passengers who have had both COVID-19 vaccination jabs will no longer have to self-isolate when returning to the UK from countries on the amber travel list from. the 19th July. Transport secretary Grant Shapps MP announced the move today saying: “I can confirm today from 19 July UK residents who [read more]
British Holidaymakers are set to return to the white sands of Ibiza, Majorca and Menorca as the Spanish Balearic Islands are put on the UK Governments green travel list. The move means that Brits will be able to travel the islands without the need to quarantine on return to the [read more]
The travel industry including trade bodies such as ABTA, airports, airlines and unions have begun a day of action and protest to demonstrate how it was one of the hardest-hit industries in the pandemic and the way the government has handled international travel. The UK’s largest airport group, Manchester Airports [read more]
Portugal rejoined the Amber travel list at 04:00 hours this morning after the UK Government caught the travel industry, and tourists, by surprise and removed it from the green list. The move prompted a rush by British passengers to get back to the UK before the deadline with airlines laying [read more]
The plans for thousands of Britons to take a summer holiday in Portugal this year are being thrown into chaos with the government putting the popular holiday destination back on the amber list. Currently Britons can travel to Portugal without the need to self-isolate for 14-days on return but its [read more]
As of today, 12 countries have been moved to the Green list of countries as announced by the UK government last week meaning you can travel without the need to self-isolate on your return. But of that 12, many are not accepting travellers from the UK so realistically, where can [read more]
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