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'Aito members have lost faith in government'

Government
Noel Josephides
23 June 2021

Aito members have lost faith in government. It is not telling us the truth; we don’t believe the ongoing restrictions on overseas travel have anything to do with anxieties over variants of concern.

Travel is a growth sector – it must tell government that story

Aito is angry proposed PTR rule changes will not protect operators during airport disruption

The Telegraph, which seems to be party to accurate government leaks, has revealed health secretary Matt Hancock kept Boris Johnson in the dark over the vaccine’s success over the Indian variant for several days, thus keeping vital data – which could have enabled the planned reopening on the 21 June – secret.

This is the latest of many misrepresentations preventing Aito members, and travel in general, from trading; it risks more than 500,000 travel industry livelihoods. The two “Global Travel Taskforces”, supposedly taking advice from the industry, failed to do so.