you can’t be serious. UK has far stricter requirements for travel than most countries it does the most biz with, Europe and US look like paradise in comparison.

Paying for 4 tests to come to UK and quarantine for 5 days is an embarrassment and doesn’t exactly promote following the rules for the sake of the science, it feels more like a punishment for daring to travel

If, by “takes advantage” you mean if the USA declares Covid over and stops vaccinating, then we have it well in hand. If you meant take steps to prevent the Delta variant making a lot of people sick, then no, we are kind of f**ked.

You genuinely haven't got a clue. What has the government done, or even said to support your argument? Have you seen anything remotely promising for a sector that is on its knees? Just one positive thing. Lufthansa is flying widebodies to Majorca of all places and UK airlines are cancelling flights till August.

A positive government leak perhaps..?


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...1d559aec60.png

Fingers crossed. That will bring the UK into line (if it can be phrased that way) with the EU/Schengen plans.

As many people here have posted before, it's contradictory to tell people they should get vaccinated because it stops them getting seriously ill and reduces the chances of them transmitting the illness to their loved ones, while then saying that vaccinated travellers are disease bags who need to be tested three or four times (once to fly, day 2 & 8, day 5 to release) and not leave their house.

Putting a country green for a few weeks just so some MP can go watch a football match isn't enough. Yeah, I'm ranting :) I live in Switzerland and really want to fly back to stock up on teabags, err I mean see my family.

This rumour/leak has hit Sky news too. The more articles the better!
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...-jabs-12334485

well the next review is within 10 days!

Given the government has a habit of giving concessions when legally threatened, this post in the CV & Travel forum might be of interest in terms of understanding the timing of this briefing to the Telegraph.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/33334362-post8655.html

It took them long enough.
Another tactic can always be "we voted Brexit to have more rights than EU, not less rights than EU" in this case in terms of travel because the UK rules look far stricter than Europe's at the moment.

It is also reported on the BBC here.

Looks like a positive development, hopefully it is followed through! We all know where these Telegraph stories come from so fingers crossed it won't be another flipflop policy.

I think this combined with a sensible testing regime should enable the safe return of travel for inbound and outbound tourism.

A positive development but I always sigh when I read things like this because I would imagine Scotland would not adopt it meaning that if you arrived to England, I assume that if you then drive across to Scotland you would have a legal requirement to go back into quarantine?

The cynic in me says that the above is an easy political win claiming to be "on the side of the (vaccinated) traveller" by removing quarantine-on-return, whilst knowing full well that, barring a few exceptions, the rest of the world is clamping down on visitors from the 'Plague Island' UK because of the latest mess they got us into with the Delta variant being allowed to run rife. Being able to say they've opened up the borders and it's "forriners" (in particular 'Europe') that is limiting our freedoms is par for the course with this government.

I have wondered for months and posted here why there has been no legal challenge from the airlines. They all need to band together and make the government explain exactly what data/science/evidence is being used to determine the green list. They are clearly not using data, so I think there is a case to answer for, hopefully the judge can see it this way if it does end up in court. Or, allow fully vaxxed travellers to travel freely from July 1 in line with the EU.

I would also add that if you are double jabbed, for you Tommy the war is over and life goes back to normal. If one of the most litigous countries on the planet can start to do it, then that tells me all I need to know.

There was no real point in doing it before now. The wasn’t sufficient numbers of people wanting to travel until recently to make it economically viable for the airlines, in part influenced by the fact many other countries wouldn’t let U.K. travellers in.

Obviously that’s changed with many EU states opening up and the U.K. becomes somewhat of an outlier.

I look forward though to the usual anti-restriction Brexiteers in the media making a case for EU alignment, whilst maintaining a straight face.