Originally Posted by KARFA

The enforcement measures may be new, but the rules are not. There shouldn't be any "non-essential" travelling abroad anyway, and it seems lockdown 3 will last until early March from what has been said today.

I don't like using the word "essential" for travel tbh, as that isn't really the correct position. The rules in England are all based on reasonable excuse to leave home, and there are no additional explicit rules on whether you can travel overseas. Effectively if your reasonable excuse for leaving home involves you travelling overseas too, then that should be allowed. Making airlines try and enforce this will be very difficult though, and I think it would be reasonable for the government to actually produce a list of reasons people are allowed to travel abroad - perhaps clarifying things such as the little scam advocated on certain blogs of booking your one apartment viewing in Dubai to justify the whole holiday there for example.