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Aviation chiefs criticise govt's 'over-cautious' restart plan

Government
James Chapple
6 May 2021

The government’s "overly-cautious" plan to restart international travel later this month risks squandering the UK’s "vaccine dividend", aviation leaders have warned.

Heathrow faces take-off and landing disruption on Monday (Credit: Heathrow airport)

(Credit: Heathrow airport)

Together, they call on the UK government to follow Europe’s lead and allow vaccinated Brits returning from “green list”, those adjudged to pose a similar or lower Covid risk to that here in the UK, to side-step inbound testing requirements when travel resumes.


“Instead of taking advantage of the success of the vaccine programme, the government risks closing the UK off from the rest of the world,” said the chief executives of Heathrow, British Airways, easyJet, Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, and Manchester Airports Group in a wide-ranging piece written for The Telegraph on Thursday (6 May).