Balpa has written to the government to ask for a winter “resilience fund” to provide funding for cash-strapped airlines during the next few months, after the reaction to the emergence of the new Covid-19 variant “shattered” consumer confidence.
The union is also pleading for all mandatory Covid tests for travellers to be provided free by the NHS and not by “cowboy” private testing companies.
While Balpa added that any additional restrictions “must be only data-led, ensuring effective border controls do their job whilst allowing safe travel to resume”.
