Still some very cheap FAO fares over the summer hols (~£80 return) - can't seen them still being around past today if it does make the green list

Looks like it's the ex-LGW flights mostly that have been moved over that are the cheap ones, there are some huge disparities on segment prices between flights on the same day (all the way from O to Y)

Edit - Wrong thread.

I imagine what EasyJet and Ryanair do will have an impact on this too. If they bump their fares up, it'll give BA the room to do the same.

Just over two hours now. Does anyone here know if BA will add more flights on to the green listed countries announced? I heard some talk of widebody aircraft as well to leisure destinations - any chance of that?

Well MAN and EDI have already had flights added by BA to Faro in the last 24hrs, but I would expect most airlines to view booking numbers / searches over the next 48hrs once the list is formally announced and then try and match capacity to demand.

Pilot37

Remember plenty of the "green countries" may not let us in !

That assumes the US will lift their travel restrictions on non-US residents.

Today’s announcement is about what will be required for those travelling back to the UK from certain countries - it’s up to those countries whether or not (and under what circumstances) they will accept visitors from the UK. Hopefully Shapps will announce non-essential international travel will be 'decriminalised' from 17 May.

Whether other countries will let us in is entirely a matter for them. At least after today we should know what the requirements will be for returning to the UK once we do travel.

Third flight to FAO on May 30th added in last 24 hours. Priced at under £150 in Y this morning, now north of £400. Also looks like the late flight is now an A321 (not sure if this was always the case or not...)

I'm in an exempt group for travel to the US. Not worried about getting into the USA but, I take your point that many aren't.

I've got a few 72 hour price holds on BA that I placed Wednesday. Gives me until tomorrow to decide where to go based on the announcement at 5pm.

Yep, the ones I booked in July are creeping up now, although there are still some return segments in Y around the £30 mark, which is pretty astonishing for the school hols.

Fully expect my flights to change, not least because my return supposedly gets into LHR after midnight (no chance). Will be interesting to see if they maintain the 6 flights per day in each direction, given the likely demand.

Even if they do, there will have to be some rejigging of the schedule - my outbound is one of two flights that both depart at exactly the same time (I.e. one was the ex-LGW flight). Possibly that is an option to consolidate to a wide body?

Between this, Dubai, and Greece (£100 returns to RHO :eek: ) I could have really got some bargains this year, but time will tell.

So does anyone know if HMG are clearing any declaration of a country first with the country concerned? Not much point us declaring a country as Green or Amber etc if that country is still not letting UK peeps in or has restrictions to incomers that make it a waste of time being Green or Amber?

I don't think the announcement is going to be like the scoring at Eurovision, we could be watching for hours !

Nope - but that didn't stop them last year when Australia, New Zealand and Singapore were all green - despite nobody being able to get in / out!

Pilot37

Grant’s on!